Re: [Xen-users] [HOWTO] Running Xen 4.0 host (dom0) with Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6)

[Digimer <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/19/2010 11:26 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:22:39AM -0500, Digimer wrote:
> > On 11/19/2010 01:57 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > > It seems you didn't read well enough ;)
> > >
> > > "Before rebuilding libvirt you need to boot into non-Xen environment! This is 
> > > because some of the automated RHEL6 libvirt Xen-specific tests seem to fail in Xen dom0 
> > > environment, but work OK in baremetal."
> > >
> > > -- Pasi
> > Heh, I'm hesitant to ask now, in case it's another instance of me
> > failing to read, but... :)
> >
> > When I first start virt-manager, I get an error/warning saying that
> > 'qemu-kvm' should be installed.
> I haven't seen this error on my system.
>
> > I realize this isn't important, as we're
> > running Xen, but I wanted to try to resolve it just the same. So I tried
> > to install qemu-kvm from the rebuilt qemu RPMs made earlier in the
> > tutorial. This led to a requirement I've not been able to meet:
> >
> > rpm -ivh rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/qemu-system-x86-0.12.5-1.el6.x86_64.rpm \
> >           rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/qemu-kvm-0.12.5-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
> > error: Failed dependencies:
> >         seabios-bin is needed by qemu-system-x86-2:0.12.5-1.el6.x86_64
> > yum provides \*/seabios-bin
> > Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin
> > No Matches found
> I don't think you should install those rpms, since RHEL6 already
> has kvm included.
>
> You need to only install the additional "qemu-common" rpm,
> since that provides the stuff that Xen rpm depends on.
Indeed. More than anything, I am concerned that customers might see the 
error and worry. I know it doesn't effect Xen at all. :)
Well, I'll move on then. I now need to get DRBD compiled against this 
kernel. Thank you again.
--
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