The latest Fedora to come
with Xen Dom0 support is 8. This is because it is a separate kernel. It can
be installed with Yum or possibly with a custom installation, however, F8 has
obviously been EOL for some time, so you would probably be better off going with
the source you have already downloaded. Once pvops dom0 becomes mainstream,
the next version of Fedora may support it, but I don’t know (might ask in a
Fedora mailing list). Otherwise you would be able to compile a custom kernel
that supported it (on whatever version of Fedora came with a new enough version
of the kernel to support pvops). In the meantime, it shouldn’t matter which
distro you are using if you are downloading the source, as the appropriate Dom0
kernel will be (downloaded and) compiled during compilation of Xen. Even if it
seems like a way older kernel, it should have a lot of newer drivers
backported, so don’t panic and not try it on account of that. Disclaimer: I
haven’t actually done a Xen from source install (or if I have, it has been a
really long time), but I am pretty sure nothing has changed enough to change the
accuracy of my (generally generic) statements above.
Dustin
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[mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of kishore
kumar
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 18:59
To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Xen-users] Xen Installation on Fedora
Hi,
I am new to
Xen. I have few questions in my mind. Can any one of you clarify please.
1. Does Fedora version 10 ,11,12 core
has the support for Xen DOM 0 capable kernel support? Which is the latest
Fedora that supports the Xen DOM 0 kernel support? (Based on this I need to
select the correct Fedora version to install for my development environment)
2. Once I install the Fedora, do I need
to invoke “yum “ for installing the Virtualization support or the default
Fedora installation comes with this. (MY Hardware has support of Intel VT-x,
VT-d and SR-IOV though)
3. I have downloaded latest Xen source
version 3.4.2. After I build the Xen from the source, where or how does the
DOM 0 Linux kernel comes from? OR is that the Linux (in this case Fedora) that
I used for building the Xen becomes the DOM 0 ? I am confused here. I read
few documents but I could not find how this DOM 0 Linux Guest is created?
4.
I am also looking for SR-IOV vf and pf drivers. Xen-3.4.2 include these?
