Re: RHEL 5 glibc, was Re: [Xen-users] Xen a couple of questions

[Michael Paesold <mpaesold@xxxxxx>]

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> Geert Janssens wrote:
> > 1. On CentOS 5, Redhat Enterprise 5 and Fedora core 6 and up, the xen 
> > kernel can be used for both dom0 and domU. There is no need anymore 
> > for two kernels.
> >   
> Has anyone properly tested the RHEL and CentOS 5 glibc in clients? I'm 
> forced to use the xensource 3.1.0 kernel-xen kernel to get RHEL 4 
> DomU's, and it causes the guests to whine bitterly at boot time about 
> the /lib/tls issues. Xensource used to publish a modified glibc for RHEL 
> 4.4 to avoid the /lib/tls emulation issues, but CentOS and RHEL 4.5 have 
> an even more recent glibc.
What kernel do you use in the guests? The RedHat/CentOS provided kernels 
properly place glibc hint files into /etc/ld.so.conf.d/, which makes 
glibc use the nosegneg variants available in RHEL/CentOS 4.5 and 5.
If you use Xensource kernels, I guess those don't create the files 
correctly.
Best Regards
Michael Paesold


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