Hi, I know that FC5 comes with Xen already, and I know that I could have easily used yum to install it. The problem is, that using either of those options I was completely unable to get NAT networking to work, which in my specific case, was a must-have. So, I decided to torture myself, and came up with this process (which really isn't that big of a deal, the most torture is the actual setup of the domU, the Xen and dom0 setup was pretty painless). When installing via source, all I had to do was make sure that the modules needed to run NAT were included in the kernel, and the NAT networking worked perfectly first try. Thus, why I kept my walkthrough, and why I have given it as a resource to those who have had the same problems. Hopefully it will help someone who had the same difficulties as I had. Mito -----Original Message----- From: Stephen C. Tweedie [mailto:sct@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 7:35 AM To: Mito Cc: 'Eredicator X'; fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx; Stephen Tweedie Subject: RE: [Fedora-xen] FC4 on a FC5 Xen System Hi, On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 09:23 -0400, Mito wrote: > I'm still a beginner in the world of Xen, but I did dive in pretty hard > right away and learned a few good tricks. This page is a page of notes I > took for myself for setting up exactly what you're trying to setup, a FC4 > domU on a FC5 dom0. > > http://mitopia.net/index.php/Xen_3.0.2_Setup I'm wondering why you took such a tortuous route to install xen-3.0.2 on FC5? FC5 comes with Xen already included, and # yum install xen would have installed it for you. FC5 updates currently carries xen-3.0.2 versions for both xen and kernel-xen*. Xen-3.0.2 won't run the early, pre-3.0.0 version of Xen that FC4 used, so to run FC4 on a FC5 host you will need some helping hands; as you described, qemu is ideal for that. Cheers, Stephen
