On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 09:54:13AM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote: > Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 04:29:19AM -0800, fcxen user wrote: > >> Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:38:29PM +0200, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote: > >>>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:31:31PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:06:36AM +0000, M A Young wrote: > >>>>>> On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Franz Von Hahn wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> You could propably use CentOS 5.2 als a dom0. It is shipped with a > >>>>>>> kernel-xen package 2.6.18.x. It works fine for me but i haven't tried > >>>>>>> F10 so far since i'm acutally downloading the iso image of F10 which > >>>>>>> takes a long time when using a 1024kpb/s line, you know ;) > >>>>>> I believe you need Centos 5.3 for F10 xen guest clients which, as > >>>>>> RHEL5.3 beta has only just appeared, probably won't be available until > >>>>>> after Fedora 8 has EOLed. > >>>>>> > >>>>> Yeah.. I believe RHEL 5.2 and CentOS 5.2 has too old python-virtinst > >>>>> to handle/install F10 guests.. > >>>>> > >>>>> RHEL 5.3 will contain updated python-virtinst that supports F10 guests. > >>>>> It is already included in RHEL 5.3 beta. > >>>>> > >>>>> http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-rawhide-domU-on-RHEL5.2-dom0--p19833725.html > >>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460585 > >>>>> > >>>>> If you can't try RHEL 5.3 beta dom0, you could try with installing > >>>>> python-virtinst-0.300.2-10.el5 or newer to your RHEL 5.2 / CentOS 5.2 > >>>>> dom0.. > >>>>> it should add support for F10 domUs. For more information check that > >>>>> bugzilla link above. > >>>>> > >>>>> RHEL 5.3 beta announcement: > >>>>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-announce/2008-October/msg00000.html > >>>>> > >>>>> contains: > >>>>> python-virtinst-0.300.2-11.el5 > >>>>> > >>>> Oh, and it seems you also need newer libxc: > >>> Yes, that is correct - RHEL-5.2 Xen doesn't understand the new bzImage > >>> style kernels. > >>> > >>> Daniel > >> So is there any way to get F10 domU running on F8 dom0 ? > >> > >> I don't want to have to downgrade all my dom0s to RHEL or CentOS ... > >> > > > > Based on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457199 > > "And we're including that patch now in F-8, F-9 and F-10" libxc bzImage > > support should be fine in Fedora 8 (with all the updates installed). > > > > Then there's the problem with python-virtinst.. > > > > I guess python-virtinst in Fedora 8 cannot handle F10 guests? > > > > Latest version in F8 updates seems to be: python-virtinst-0.300.2-4.fc8 > > > > Which looks too old to support F10 guests.. > > > > So maybe you have to update python-virtinst in F8 and then try again? > > I posted this elsewhere in the thread, but just yesterday I built a new > F8 virtinst which should allow installing F10 xen guests: > > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=71125 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458164 > > It should be in updates testing now. Give it a +1 in bodhi if it works > for you, and the package will eventually make it to the plain updates repo: > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-10394 > Thanks for the links. I think it would be a good idea to add a note to F10 release notes that if you want to use Fedora 8 as dom0 to run F10 guests, you need to have all the latest updates installed to your F8 dom0, plus you need to have that python-virtinst-0.300.2-5.fc8.noarch.rpm from updates-testing. -- Pasi -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
