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Xen on SL6| CRCinAU |
Posted: Jun 9 2011, 11:53 PM
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SLF Newbie Group: Members Posts: 13 Member No.: 246 Joined: 5-June 11  |
There is a fantastic tutorial that I used to get SL6 running as a Xen Dom0 on my virtualisation system at home:
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/RHEL6Xen4Tutorial I managed to get things up and running without any major issues at all. I did learn however that the Dom0 memory requirement is at last 1Gb to build / checkout the kernel - however once built, it all runs perfectly with 512Mb allocated to Dom0 (with no swap!) |
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| joutlan |
Posted: Jun 10 2011, 02:06 AM
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| CRCinAU |
Posted: Jun 10 2011, 03:15 AM
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SLF Newbie Group: Members Posts: 13 Member No.: 246 Joined: 5-June 11 |
The one thing I think should be changed in the Xen howto is the following:
I believe it would be much better as such:
This will only checkout the latest version (about 100Mb) - and not download the entire history (about 1.2Gb). Oh, and the entire libvirt part is purely optional. I didn't build libvirt with my installation and all still works well. |
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| CRCinAU |
Posted: Mar 28 2013, 08:46 AM
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SLF Newbie Group: Members Posts: 13 Member No.: 246 Joined: 5-June 11 |
I figure I should update this topic as its been a *LONG* time since I posted this and things have changed quite dramatically since it was first posted.
I now maintain SL6 RPMs for Xen and a Xen capable kernel. The install guide can be found here: http://xen.crc.id.au/support/guides/install/ Save yourself a ton of hassle and use the binaries  |
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| redman |
Posted: Mar 28 2013, 11:53 AM
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Thanks for the additional info
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