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Re: [Xen-users] centos 6 xen?

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] centos 6 xen?
From: Peter <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 12:49:22 +1300
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On 08/10/11 06:46, zGreenfelder wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I should lurk a bit longer before asking, but I'm getting a bit
> frustrated.   it seems that centos 6/red hat6 is working on getting
> away from xen, but at this point it's still my preferred hypervisor.
>  I found a tutorial at:
> http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/RHEL6Xen4Tutorial
> that suggests it might be workable for centos 6, but when I get to the
> point of installing a dom0 capable kernel, I seem to hit a wall with
> 
>    git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git
> linux-2.6-xen
> 
> errors out with
>   Initialized empty Git repository in /root/kernel/xen/.git/
>   fatal: Unable to look up git.kernel.org (port 9418) (Name or service
> not known)
> although ping works and telnet to that host on 9418 seems to get
> somewhere.(after some gyrations).
> 
> does anyone have an easier way to do this or another suggestion for
> getting this version of the kernel?

Yes, Michael Young has built some dom0 kernels that work great with
CentOS 6:
http://xenbits.xen.org/people/mayoung/testing/

...as well as the userspace tools:
http://xenbits.xen.org/people/mayoung/EL6.xen/

...just install from there and you're good to go.


Peter

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