On 9/8/06, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
While on the topic of virtualization - has anyone tried install the RHEL5 beta inside FC5 xen?
I just finished the graphical install using VNC, mostly using http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstartFC5 Since I'm new to Xen, I also found the FAQ helpful: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenFaq I did this mainly because I wanted to create a RHEL5 anaconda-ks.cfg, attached with password removed. I'm going to use it to kickstart a real metal install. (Hmm, that makes me think it would be nice to have a default anaconda-ks.cfg online somewhere in the RH docs, or in the CD images. Maybe system-config-kickstart provides this, I've not tried it.) Here's my short guide: * You have to use the new kernel-xen which has PAE and follow the workaround at https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2006-August/msg00098.html Otherwise you won't have any network, or with kernel-xen0 xend-debug.log will say "ERROR: PAE-kernel on non-PAE host." * The layout is different, and I couldn't get the NFS ISO method to work, so instead if you downloaded the DVD image just use that, or on your NFS or HTTP server, mount the ISOs and link or rsync the files from all the repos, plus the "images" directory which has stage2.img etc.: RNAME=rhel5 mkdir -p /ISO/$RNAME cd /ISO/$RNAME # wget your ISOs here; name of file prefix is... DNAME=RHEL5-Server-i386-beta for i in 1 2 3 4; do mkdir /ISO/$RNAME/disc${i} mount -t iso9660 -o loop=/dev/loop${i} /ISO/$RNAME/$DNAME-disc${i}.iso disc${i} for j in Cluster ClusterStorage Server VT; do rsync -az /mnt/source/disc$i/$j/ . done done rsync -az /mnt/source/disc1/images . umount disc{1,2,3,4} * Now start the install fo your FC5 host with the helper script: /usr/sbin/xenguest-install.py --name=el5 --file=/tmp/el5 --ram=256 --file-size=4 --location='nfs:servername:/ISO/rhel5' You should now get the familiar anaconda screen. * For the key, I just put "V", for other options see the beta annoucement at https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-announce/2006-September/msg00000.html The only other non-default option I used was: Unchecked "Office and Productivity" Checked "Web Server" * Note that some of the anaconda groups have changed; for example, "@Editors" now includes Emacs. You can get the full list from the "comps*xml" files in the repodata directories on disc1; there are tools, or this gives a quick text file: egrep "<name>|packagereq" disc1/Server/repodata/comps-rhel5-server-core.xml > el5-server-groups.txt
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