Re: [Xen-users] Installing xen on RHEL 5.4

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 12:26:38PM -0800, kishore kumar wrote:
>    Even after getting the xen src rpm from [1]ftp.redhat.com, will I be able
>    to get all the supporting packages for xen?
> 

You need to re-build the src.rpms to get binary rpms you can install! 
You need to use rpmbuild to do that.

RHEL5 has Xen hypervisor version 3.1.2 + tools version 3.0.3.

-- Pasi

>    like
>    yum install virt-manager libvirt libvirt-python python-virtinst.
> 
>    And also [2]ftp.redhat.com does not have the latest version of Xen
>    3.4.2.   I am seeing only 3.0.3 versions.
> 
>    On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <[3]pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>      On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 11:04:54AM -0800, kishore kumar wrote:
>      >    Thanks to everyone for the reply.
>      >
>      >    I did do yum install xen as well as yum install kernel-xen.
>      >
>      >    It installed kernel xen which I think is the DOM 0 kernel.  But it
>      did not
>      >    install the actuall xen itself.
>      >
>      >    I checked doing yum list xen*.  There is no xen installed.
>      >
>      >    Then I spoke to customer center for the Red Hat, they told me that
>      I
>      >    have just the Basic RHEL v 5.4.  I need to purchase the RHEL5.4
>      with
>      >    Virtualization and Multi OS support to have the Xen and all the
>      >    virtualization support.
>      >
>      >    Then I had another question in my mind, thinking that can we
>      compile and
>      >    install the xen source itself on RHEL basic version?
>      >
> 
>      You can grab the xen src.rpm from [4]ftp.redhat.com and re-build it on
>      your RHEL5 desktop.
>      This is the easiest way.
>      >    But again I came across with another problem, when I was trying to
>      pull
>      >    out the source from mercurial repository.
>      >
>      >    It gave me saying hg command not found.  Then I did yum install
>      >    mercurial.  It again gave me the message saying No packages
>      available.
>      >
>      >    Why is this so?
>      >
> 
>      Because RHEL5 doesn't include mercurial package. I think it might be in
>      the EPEL repo.
> 
>      -- Pasi
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >    On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen
>      <[1][5]pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
>      >
>      >      On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 10:40:53AM +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
>      >      > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:04 AM, kishore kumar
>      >      <[2][6]bodkekumar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>      >      > > Hi,
>      >      > >
>      >      > > I have RHEL v 5.4 desktop system. (It is licensed system and
>      >      registered to
>      >      > > Redhat Network though).
>      >      >
>      >      > Check with your Redhat sales rep. AFAIK xen is not available
>      for RHEL
>      >      desktop.
>      >      > You can either use RHEL AP, or go with Centos/self compiled Xen
>      (with
>      >      > the consequence of losing Redhat support).
>      >      >
>      >
>      >      I think RHEL5 desktop needs the "Multi OS" option/channel to have
>      Xen.
>      >      -- Pasi
>      >
>      > References
>      >
>      >    Visible links
>      >    1. mailto:[7]pasik@xxxxxx
>      >    2. mailto:[8]bodkekumar@xxxxxxxxx
> 
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