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

To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen in RHEL 5.0...Installation problems
From: Dushmant Mohapatra <d_mpatra@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:58:07 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi Daniel,

I tried to install the following RPMs:

xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-25.0.3.el5.i386.rpm
xen-devel-3.0.3-25.0.3.el5.i386.rpm
xen-libs-3.0.3-25.0.3.el5.i386.rpm

They got installed successfully. But while trying to install xen-3.0.3-25.0.3.el5.i386.rpm

I get the dependency problem : error: Failed dependencies:
python-virtinst is needed by xen-3.0.3-25.0.3.el5.i386


I am not sure which rpm to install for this . Also I am not finding the proper RPM for virt-manager,virt-install.

Are they present in the server image or client image?

Regards
Dushmanta



"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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