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Re: [Xen-users] Xen in RHEL 5.0...Installation problems

To: Dushmant Mohapatra <d_mpatra@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen in RHEL 5.0...Installation problems
From: Jan Mark Holzer <jmh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:03:47 -0400
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Dushmant Mohapatra wrote:
Hi Daniel,

I tried to install the following RPMs:

xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-25.0.3.el5.i386.rpm
xen-devel-3.0.3-25.0.3.el5.i386.rpm
xen-libs-3.0.3-25.0.3.el5.i386.rpm

They got installed successfully. But while trying to install xen-3.0.3-25.0.3.el5.i386.rpm

I get the dependency problem : error: Failed dependencies:
python-virtinst is needed by xen-3.0.3-25.0.3.el5.i386

You could also use yum's groupinstall option which will resolve the dependencies for you at
   install time.
If you want to install the virtualization bits you'd use the command
   # yum groupinstall Virtualization
This of course will only work if you setup a yum repository either pointing to your installation
   source/tree or another RHEL5 repository.
If have your distribution media mounted as /rhel5tree you can use the .repo file below. Just save it to something like /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel5-ga.repo If you mount your distro tree somewhere else just replace rhel5tree/etc... with your local mount point (same is true if you are using the client bits) , or replace the file:/// directive with a network location such as
   http/nfs/ftp if you have your install tree available on the net

#
# rhel5-ga.repo
# should be saved to /etc/yum.repos.d/
#
[RHEL5 VT]
name = "RHEL5 VT $releasever - $basearch"
baseurl=file:///rhel5tree/released/RHEL-5-Server/GOLD/$basearch/os/VT/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
[RHEL5 Server]
name = "RHEL5 Server $releasever - $basearch"
baseurl=file:///rhel5tree/released/RHEL-5-Server/GOLD/$basearch/os/Server/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
[RHEL5 Cluster]
name = "RHEL5 Cluster $releasever - $basearch"
baseurl=file:///rhel5tree/released/RHEL-5-Server/GOLD/$basearch/os/Cluster/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
[RHEL5 ClusterStorage]
name = "RHEL5 ClusterStorage $releasever - $basearch"
baseurl=file:///rhel5tree/released/RHEL-5-Server/GOLD/$basearch/os/ClusterStorage/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

- Jan

I am not sure which rpm to install for this . Also I am not finding the proper RPM for virt-manager,virt-install.

Are they present in the server image or client image?

Regards
Dushmanta



*/"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>/* wrote:

    On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:03:44PM -0700, Dushmant Mohapatra wrote:
    > Hello..I am not very proficient in Linux kernel stuffs although
    I know my basics. I have a question and all suggestions/solutions
    will be highly appreciated...
    >
    > I got to know that RHEL 5 has inbuilt Xen Support...So I tried
    to install a RHEL 5.0 Server on my P4 machine. On top of it I
    tried to install Xen specific RPMs and some other RPMs needed by Xen.
    >
    > The additinal RPMs added after base RHEL 5.0 installation are :
    >
    >
    > bridge-utils-1.1.2.i386.rpm
    > iproute-2.6.18-4.el5.i386.rpm
    > kernel-xen-2.6.18-8.el5.i686.rpm
    > kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-8.el5.i686.prm
    > udev-095-14.5.el5.i386.rpm

    You've missing the 'xen' RPM in that list. Also recommend installing
    the virt-manager RPM

    > # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
    > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
    > # root (hd0,0)
    > # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
    > # initrd /initrd-version.img
    > #boot=/dev/hda
    > default=0
    > timeout=5
    > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
    > #hiddenmenu
    > title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-8.el5xen)
    > root (hd0,0)
    > kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-8.el5
    > module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5xen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
    rhgb quiet
    > module /initrd-2.6.18-8.el5xen.img
    >
    > title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-8.el5)
    > root (hd0,0)
    > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
    rhgb quiet
    > initrd /initrd-2.6.18-8.el5.img
    >
    >
    >
    > After all this I am ready to boot properly into Xen Specific
    Linux and the original
    > RHEL . But there is no /etc/xen directory and nor are the tools
    like xend and xm
    > available.

    That is because you only installed the Xen kernel - you need the
    'xen'
    RPM from RHEL-5 to get the userspace tools

    Regards,
    Dan.
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