Re: [Xen-users] Xen in RHEL 5.0...Installation problems

[Jan Mark Holzer <jmh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dushmant Mohapatra wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> I tried to install the following RPMs:
>
> xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-25.0.3.el5.i386.rpm
> xen-devel-3.0.3-25.0.3.el5.i386.rpm
> xen-libs-3.0.3-25.0.3.el5.i386.rpm
>
> They got installed successfully. But while trying to install 
> xen-3.0.3-25.0.3.el5.i386.rpm
> I get the dependency problem : error: Failed dependencies:
> python-virtinst is needed by xen-3.0.3-25.0.3.el5.i386
You could also use yum's groupinstall option which will resolve the 
dependencies for you at
   install time.
If you want to install the virtualization bits you'd use the command
   # yum groupinstall Virtualization
This of course will only work if you setup a yum repository either 
pointing to your installation
   source/tree or another RHEL5 repository.
If have your distribution media mounted as /rhel5tree you can use the 
.repo file below.
Just save it to something like /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel5-ga.repo  If you 
mount your distro tree
   somewhere else just replace rhel5tree/etc... with your local mount 
point (same is true if you
   are using the client bits) , or replace the file:/// directive with 
a network location such as
   http/nfs/ftp if you have your install tree available on the net

#
# rhel5-ga.repo
# should be saved to /etc/yum.repos.d/
#
[RHEL5 VT]
name = "RHEL5 VT $releasever - $basearch"
baseurl=file:///rhel5tree/released/RHEL-5-Server/GOLD/$basearch/os/VT/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
[RHEL5 Server]
name = "RHEL5 Server $releasever - $basearch"
baseurl=file:///rhel5tree/released/RHEL-5-Server/GOLD/$basearch/os/Server/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
[RHEL5 Cluster]
name = "RHEL5 Cluster $releasever - $basearch"
baseurl=file:///rhel5tree/released/RHEL-5-Server/GOLD/$basearch/os/Cluster/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
[RHEL5 ClusterStorage]
name = "RHEL5 ClusterStorage $releasever - $basearch"
baseurl=file:///rhel5tree/released/RHEL-5-Server/GOLD/$basearch/os/ClusterStorage/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

- Jan
> I am not sure which rpm to install for this . Also I am not finding 
> the proper RPM for virt-manager,virt-install.
> Are they present in the server image or client image?
>
> Regards
> Dushmanta
>
>
>
> */"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>/* wrote:
>
>     On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:03:44PM -0700, Dushmant Mohapatra wrote:
>     > Hello..I am not very proficient in Linux kernel stuffs although
>     I know my basics. I have a question and all suggestions/solutions
>     will be highly appreciated...
>     >
>     > I got to know that RHEL 5 has inbuilt Xen Support...So I tried
>     to install a RHEL 5.0 Server on my P4 machine. On top of it I
>     tried to install Xen specific RPMs and some other RPMs needed by Xen.
>     >
>     > The additinal RPMs added after base RHEL 5.0 installation are :
>     >
>     >
>     > bridge-utils-1.1.2.i386.rpm
>     > iproute-2.6.18-4.el5.i386.rpm
>     > kernel-xen-2.6.18-8.el5.i686.rpm
>     > kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-8.el5.i686.prm
>     > udev-095-14.5.el5.i386.rpm
>
>     You've missing the 'xen' RPM in that list. Also recommend installing
>     the virt-manager RPM
>
>     > # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
>     > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
>     > # root (hd0,0)
>     > # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
>     > # initrd /initrd-version.img
>     > #boot=/dev/hda
>     > default=0
>     > timeout=5
>     > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>     > #hiddenmenu
>     > title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-8.el5xen)
>     > root (hd0,0)
>     > kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-8.el5
>     > module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5xen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
>     rhgb quiet
>     > module /initrd-2.6.18-8.el5xen.img
>     >
>     > title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-8.el5)
>     > root (hd0,0)
>     > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
>     rhgb quiet
>     > initrd /initrd-2.6.18-8.el5.img
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > After all this I am ready to boot properly into Xen Specific
>     Linux and the original
>     > RHEL . But there is no /etc/xen directory and nor are the tools
>     like xend and xm
>     > available.
>
>     That is because you only installed the Xen kernel - you need the
>     'xen'
>     RPM from RHEL-5 to get the userspace tools
>
>     Regards,
>     Dan.
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