On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 10:35 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Good day, Hi Michel,
> We have recently purchased a RHEL5 system to be able to simulate a network > environment of four machines for network designing purposes, and how > convenient, RHEL5 comes with rights of four virtualizations ;) > > So far, we have lost more than 1 week trying to make work one virtual > machine. We tried full virtualization, we tried paravirtualization, we tried > CDs, we tried mounted ISO images. Since we received the machine and > software, someone with good Linux understanding tried to make this work for > approximately 50-60 work hours. I tried to help him too, we looked > everywhere on the Internet and could not find anything but specks of > information (and obviously the usual mailing list "never mind, got it > working, thanks"). > > Finally, we gave up and used VMWare on Windows and Ubuntu virtual machines. > Took 2 hours to set up. But I find this mind boggling we could not make > RHEL5 work in 2 weeks! It should work in 3 hours, let alone two weeks :( > Does anyone have a HOWTO, a list of steps, any complete help, to install > RHEL5 (64 bits) from scratch on a completely empty machine and (for starter) > one fully working virtual RHEL5? > For starters, no we don't officially know how to create the proper "ftp > share" and which files of the CDs to put there, Ok, given that I assume you've already read the docs from Red Hat regarding virtualization. For the start, a quick hint: - get all your .iso images on a drive, say USB drive, say /dev/sdc1 mounted under /media/usbdrive on the machine that will act as the ftp server (say 192.168.0.100); make sure the files are named disc1.iso, disc2.iso etc. or the script below won't work; - on that machine - on which you previously installed vsftpd!) run this script: for i in 1 2 3 4 5; do mount -o loop /media/usbdrive/disc$i.iso /mnt; cp -a /mnt/* /var/ftp/pub; umount /mnt; done - make sure your ftp server is running (chkconfig vsftpd on; service vsftpd restart); - now you have a fully populated directory from which you can run the install. In the installation source for the VMs fill in the following: ftp://192.168.0.100/pub/Server You need not a kickstart file, though it makes life MUCH easier. But that's another topic. You also have to install kernel-xen, xen and - preferably - virt-manager from the VT/ directory on the fifth CD. > no we don't officially know > if we need to change options, or anything. No we don't know if there are > compatibility issues with the x86-64 version we are using. We tried our > earnest to make sense of the 2 pages of instructions saying "oh you just > have to do this, select the URL with your installation, and it will work". > What url? How? What do we put there? There seem to be a problem with > ejecting CDs, there seem to be a link to URLs with the CDs there, fair > enough. Unfortunately you CAN NOT install the Domain-U's from physical devices (CD, HDD) - you really need FTP or NFS. FTP is the easiest, as I have already explained it to you. > For data's purposes, the machine is a 4-core Xeon with 4 gigabytes of ram > (for proper 4-machines virtualization). HW Virtualization is activated. Try to stick to para-virtualization; it makes the job easier for the hardware - YET. > Once I know how to do it, I will certainly put a howto on my personal web > site ;) A howto would be nice indeed! > Thank you very much in advance, community! > Michel Don't mention it :) Andrei _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
