You could try upgrading to 3.3.1 from http://www.gitco.de/repo/
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 06:22 -0400, Venefax wrote:
> I was trying to use some of the command set, like "xm new -F" etc., and it
> did not work, so I did checked and the xm options are limited, compared to
> SLES 10 SP2 or the Beta SLES 11. It is an inferior product. For example,
> what I typically do is this:
> Create a paravirtualized domU
> Xm list --long domname > domname.sxp
> Edit domname.sxp and add (cpus 2-15)
> Xm new -F domname.sxp
>
> The question is: how do you achieve that with RHEL 5.3? I don't want my
> Dumu's to use all the CPU's, since I restrict Dom0 to CPU's 0-1. Is there a
> way, at all?
> Federico
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berrange@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 6:13 AM
> To: Venefax
> Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Red Hat dropped XEN
>
> On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 08:46:22PM -0400, Venefax wrote:
> > I was really dismayed today when I installed the latest Red Hat 5.3 and
> the
> > version of Xen included is 3.1. Apparently, the only distribution with Xen
> > 3.3 is Suse. Am I reading here that Red Hat will never upgrade Xen to
> newer
> > versions? I installed the released version, and it still uses Xen 3.1.
>
> Things are not quite that simple. The RHEL-5 userspace tools are mostly on
> a 3.0.3 base, while the hypervisor and kernel are on a 3.1.0 base. The base
> versions are typically not upgraded during the lifetime of a major RHEL
> release series. That said, we do have a large number of carefully backported
>
> features & patches from newer versions, eg to add support for NPT/EPT,
> improved HVM support, hugepage support, and much more besides. So just
> comparing version numbers won't give you a true picture of Xen features
> available in RHEL-5.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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