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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