On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Steven Haigh <[email protected]> wrote: > That'll be fun to debug later ;) > > I think from memory the problem with EL5 was that you had to run the > kernel-xen package - as it wasn't included in the stock kernel. It'd > also be easier to do a netinstall vs a CD install and supply it the > vmlinuz / initrd of the xen installer.
On the guest operating systems, apparently so for RHEL 5 and its rebuilds. What's making me extra sad is that I *remember* that fun and games when I worked for the BBC years ago. I any new setup, I'd say "use SL 7 for the server and bring the disk images over, and ideally put those images under VirtualBox for a much, much, much better management interface than libvirt". > Either way, Xen 3 has been end of life for many years now - so as far as > security go, I wouldn't be putting them anywhere that could be abused. One step at a time! From other virtualization experience, it's often more time critical to set up one virtual iinstance, *correctly*, in the old setup, to demonstrate mastery of the technology. In this case, simply using "virt-install" and starting with new OS images in full virtualization has given me a working setup.
