[Fwd: Re: [Xen-users] Installing Xen on CentOS]

Your going to run into some more gotchas in centos-4. I have been running
it since it came out...
The BIGGEST problem is that BerkelyDB in CentOS-4 has been compiled with
mutexes and NTLM, which xen does not support, therefore you will run into
some limitations, as a result, many of the packages compiled against bdb
are NTLM enabled as well. If there are any rpm making guru's out there,
I'd love to host a repository of rebuilt rpm's (non-ntlm) that fully
'xenify' CentOS-4. Other than the NTLM issue... CentOS-4 has been running
great with xen. I run a CentOS-4 dom0 and numerous CentOS-3.4 and CentOS-4
domU's.
This is just a heads up for all out there using CentOS-4.

Cheers,
John Fairbairn

PS - if anybody's already done the work of building these rpm's, i'd love
to get them from ya...thanks :)

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Installing Xen on CentOS
From:    "Kip Macy" <kip.macy@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:    Tue, May 31, 2005 2:12 pm
To:      "Lee Mehlhorn" <leem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc:      xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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You'll need to create an initrd to boot off of LVM. When you specify the
initrd in grub.conf, specify it as a module.


     -Kip



On 5/31/05, Lee Mehlhorn <leem@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Hi,
>    I was wondering if someone could help me get Xen installed on
> CentOS.  I was able to download and install Xen successfully on a
minimal install of CentOS 4.   The problem I'm having is getting it to
boot off the Xen kernel.   I guess I'm just not sure about what I need
to put into my grub.conf in order to boot the Xen kernel.  I would
appreciate if anyone has a grub entry which works and could post it that
would be great.. Thanks!
>
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