Re: [Xen-users] domU with redhat over a debian based dom0

[Henning Sprang <henning_sprang@xxxxxx>]

Angel L. Mateo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>   I have running xen over a debian server (debian sarge). Now I would
> like to configure a domU with redhat (AS 4), do you now any way to
> install it?
> 

I know of no tool to easily create redhat base systems / chroots on
Debian (and i've searching for this in course of some other development)

If Centos is "enough" for you, you have two options:

1) use a readily built base image from
http://jailtime.org/download:centos:v4.2

2) try to bootsrap a basic image with rpmstrap:
http://rpmstrap.pimpscript.net/
( with this, your mileage may vary, I had problems with it, but theres a
new version in the meantime which I didn't test yet)

If you really need exactly redhat, as Redhat is not free to distribute,
you have to install a redhat machine (maybe in a desktop emulator like
qemu) make a chroot there (lookup docs to build redhat chroots, or
redhat installation from other distributions into a directory), and take
this as the base for your VM.

I'd be heavily interested if you find another way!

Henning


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