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

To: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Installing xen on RHEL 5.4
From: kishore kumar <bodkekumar@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:26:38 -0800
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Even after getting the xen src rpm from ftp.redhat.com, will I be able to get all the supporting packages for xen?
 
like
yum install virt-manager libvirt libvirt-python python-virtinst.
 
And also 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 <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 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]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]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:pasik@xxxxxx
>    2. mailto:bodkekumar@xxxxxxxxx

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