On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:41:13AM +0100, Thorsten Scherf wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 22.11.2006, 17:06 +0100 schrieb Monolive: > > Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > Hiya, > > > > > > I'd like to install RHEL4 inside a FC5 or FC6 Dom0 to do some Squid development > > > and regression testing on. Has anyone done this? Any pointers to what I should be > > > looking at doing? > > [...] > > > You will find some good documentation @ > > http://people.redhat.com/~riel/RHEL4-Xen-HOWTO > > > > If you do not have a processor with the VT extension, you can always use > > qemu to install RHEL4 in FV. > > AFAIK, it's no longer possible to use a FV RHEL4 image which has been > created with the latest version of QEMU. Reason is, that QEMU now uses > Copy-on-Write disk images. Well, QEMU doesn't use any particular type of image by default - that's entirely up to whomever creates the disk image. QEMU has about 6 different kinds of images it is able to use. You can trivially convert between disk image formats using QEMU's own tool set, eg qemu-img convert -f qcow source.img -O raw dest.img will convert from 'qcow' format to 'raw' - the latter being the format Xen wants. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
