On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 12:26:38PM -0800, kishore kumar wrote:
> Even after getting the xen src rpm from [1]ftp.redhat.com, will I be able
> to get all the supporting packages for xen?
>
You need to re-build the src.rpms to get binary rpms you can install!
You need to use rpmbuild to do that.
RHEL5 has Xen hypervisor version 3.1.2 + tools version 3.0.3.
-- Pasi
> like
> yum install virt-manager libvirt libvirt-python python-virtinst.
>
> And also [2]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 <[3]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 [4]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][5]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][6]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:[7]pasik@xxxxxx
> > 2. mailto:[8]bodkekumar@xxxxxxxxx
>
> References
>
> Visible links
> 1. ftp://ftp.redhat.com/
> 2. ftp://ftp.redhat.com/
> 3. mailto:pasik@xxxxxx
> 4. http://ftp.redhat.com/
> 5. mailto:pasik@xxxxxx
> 6. mailto:bodkekumar@xxxxxxxxx
> 7. mailto:pasik@xxxxxx
> 8. mailto:bodkekumar@xxxxxxxxx
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