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

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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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