Re: [Xen-users] HVM install keeps crashing with Centos 5 virt-install

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> Brian Lavender wrote:
>   
> > I am trying to install Redhat 6.2 as an HVM guest. Will this work? 
> >
> >   
> >     
> First, a question. Have you ever tried to install RH 6.2 on a modern
> Intel CPU?
> My guess is it wouldn't work. CPU-wise, Xen will pretty much present
> whatever CPU present at dom0 to domU. Meaning if it crashed on a real
> machine, it would also crash on a HVM guest.
>
> That being said, I believe the earliest RHEL version certified to run as
> HVM guest is RHEL3, and the earliest RHEL version certified to run as PV
> guest is 4.5.
>
> Regards,
>
> Fajar
>   
RH 6.2 is dead. Dead, dead, dead, dead, put a shroud over it and have 
drinks around it as we remember those late nights taking it out for its 
first big party.
That being said, it still operates inside of a chroot cage from RHEL 5, 
as does RedHat 7.3 (which I had to do last year, shudder!) So I don't 
think the CPU itself is a big issue. The disk drivers, now *that's* 
another story, there have been significant revisions to the IDE and SCSI 
drivers since 6.2, and getting a test bench to play with sounds like 
quite a lot of work.
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