Configuring Xen on FC10

[Samir Selman]

Hi,

I am working at Stanford on a research project and I have installed Fedora
Core 10. Can someone help me on what are the steps to configure Xen on FC10.

Thanks

[Bernard J Parrett]

Hi
I tried this and was told by many people in this site that Fedora no 
longer supports Kernel-Xen or Dom0
I had to use Centos for the Xen base and Fedora as a client.

Regards

Samir Selman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am working at Stanford on a research project and I have installed 
> Fedora Core 10. Can someone help me on what are the steps to configure 
> Xen on FC10.
> Thanks
>
> --
> Fedora-xen mailing list
> [e-mail]
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen

[Stephen Wong]

Dear Samir,

As I understand, the simple answer is 'no, there is no easy way to run
Xen on Fedora10.'  At least the current 2.6.27 kernel for Fedora10
cannot run Dom0.  If you really want to run Xen, one option is
RHEL5.3, or you have to go back to earlier version of FC.

My 2 cents.

Stephen WONG

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Samir Selman  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am working at Stanford on a research project and I have installed Fedora
> Core 10. Can someone help me on what are the steps to configure Xen on FC10.
> Thanks
>
> Fedora-xen mailing list
> [e-mail]
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 02:44:12PM -1000, Samir Selman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am working at Stanford on a research project and I have installed Fedora
> Core 10. Can someone help me on what are the steps to configure Xen on FC10.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0

Fedora 8 is currently the latest Fedora release to include dom0 capable kernel.

Xen utils/libraries/hypervisor is included in Fedora 9 and 10, and upcoming
11, but dom0 capable kernel is missing until dom0 support is added/included
into upstream (Linus) kernel.

Your options are:

- Use Fedora 8, or RHEL/CentOS 5.3 as your dom0
- Build custom dom0 kernel for your Fedora 10 (xenlinux 2.6.18 or pv_ops dom0)
- Use some of the pre-built pv_ops dom0 capable kernels, note they are experimental!
- Wait until dom0 capable kernel is back in Fedora (Fedora 12 or so..)

See fedora-xen mailinglist archives for more information.

-- Pasi

[William M. Quarles]

Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
<snip>
> Xen utils/libraries/hypervisor is included in Fedora 9 and 10, and upcoming
> 11, but dom0 capable kernel is missing until dom0 support is added/included
> into upstream (Linus) kernel.

<snip>

OK, help me out here... what is the point of having those packages in 
Fedora 9 and 10 if there is no dom0 support?

Thanks,
William

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 04:18:38AM -0400, William M. Quarles wrote:
> Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>
> <snip>
> >Xen utils/libraries/hypervisor is included in Fedora 9 and 10, and upcoming
> >11, but dom0 capable kernel is missing until dom0 support is added/included
> >into upstream (Linus) kernel.
> <snip>
>
> OK, help me out here... what is the point of having those packages in 
> Fedora 9 and 10 if there is no dom0 support?

They're also in Fedora 11.

1) you can still compile your own custom dom0 kernel (or get the kernel rpm from
somewhere else)

2) Having the hypervisor and tools available helps people to _test_ and
debug the upcoming pv_ops dom0 kernel easily

3) Fedora will add dom0 support back when it's available in upstream
kernel.org kernel, so the hypervisor and tools are ready for that

-- Pasi

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 12:15:12PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 04:18:38AM -0400, William M. Quarles wrote:
> > Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> > >Xen utils/libraries/hypervisor is included in Fedora 9 and 10, and upcoming
> > >11, but dom0 capable kernel is missing until dom0 support is added/included
> > >into upstream (Linus) kernel.
> > <snip>
> >
> > OK, help me out here... what is the point of having those packages in 
> > Fedora 9 and 10 if there is no dom0 support?
>
> They're also in Fedora 11.
> you can still compile your own custom dom0 kernel (or get the kernel rpm from
>
> somewhere else)

http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenDom0Kernels

-- Pasi