Re: [Xen-users] gitco and centos 5.8.

[Andy Finkenstadt <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 1, 2012, at 11:58, Periko Support <pheriko.support@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Andrew Finkenstadt
> <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Periko Support <pheriko.support@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi.
>>> 
>>> I got some server running xen 3.4 from gitco, the setup was easy:
>>>  groupinstall Virtualization
>>> done.
>>> 
>>> Now, I want to try some settings in my home machine, follow the same
>>> instructions and got this:
>>> 
>>> Warning: Group Virtualization does not exist.
>>> No packages in any requested group available to install or update
>>> 
>>> yum grouplist
>>> 
>>> Doesn't show any Virtualization just Xen,  I try that one but is not
>>> using gitco port.
>>> 
>>> Some knows if something change?
>>> 
>>> Centos 5.8 updated.
>>> 
>>> Try Gitco 3.3.x, 3.4.x, 4.1.x
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> yum groupinstall Xen is correct, for CentOS 5.8.  Don't forget to put the
>> .repo file into /etc/yum.repos.d.  CentOS 5.7 used "Virtualization" group,
>> 5.8 got bumped to "Xen" in preparation for KVM as an alternative
>> virtualization technology.
>> 
>> These are our standard installation instructions for "no special command
>> line parameters necessary" machines, such as our desktop-quality test beds:
>> 
>> # yum update
>> # reboot
>> # cd /etc/yum.repos.d
>> # wget http://www.gitco.de/repo/GITCO-XEN4.1.2_x86_64.repo
>> # yum update
>> # yum groupinstall Xen
>> # reboot
>> 
>> Some hardware needs "pci=nomsi" on the vmlinuz module line used by the Xen
>> hypervisor to load up the dom0.
>> 
>> 
> 
> Is the right way?
> 
> Once I shut the yum groupinstall Xen.
> 
> I see that is using xen 3.0.x from base not the gitco, check:
> 
> Virtualization-en-US                                     noarch
>                       5.8-1.el5.centos
>    base                                         6.8 M
> gnome-applet-vm                                          i386
>                        0.1.2-1.el5
>     base                                          76 k
> kernel-xen                                               i686
>                        2.6.18-308.8.2.el5
>     updates                                       21 M
> libvirt                                                  i386
>                        0.8.2-25.el5
>     base                                         3.0 M
> virt-manager                                             i386
>                        0.6.1-16.el5
>     base                                         1.6 M
> virt-viewer                                              i386
>                        0.0.2-3.el5
>     base                                          25 k
> virt-who                                                 noarch
>                        0.5-5.el5
>     base                                          44 k
> xen                                                      i386
>                        3.0.3-135.el5_8.2
>     updates                                      1.9 M
> 
> the only package that is using from gitco is:
> 
> python-virtinst                                          noarch
>                        0.500.0-1.el5
>     gitco-xen3.4.4                               475 k
> 
> This is not right, see my other server running gitco:
> 
> 
> xen.x86_64                          3.4.3-5.el5                        
> installed
> xen-libs.i386                       3.0.3-132.el5                      
> installed
> xen-libs.x86_64                     3.4.3-5.el5                        
> installed
> 
> What u think?
> 

I guess my install instructions all start with CentOS 5.7 x86_64 from 
vault.centos.org with a yum update to bring it up to 5.8.  

We use the standard  2.8.16.308-2 kernel from CentOS, for both domU and dom0 

Andy


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