Is it possible to include XEN in the EPEL6 project? Regards, Kirby Zhou from SOHU-RD +86-10-6272-8261
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pasi K?rkk?inen Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 2:52 AM To: Mike Khusid Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [rhelv6-list] [HOWTO] Running Xen 4.0 dom0 (host) on RHEL6 On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 06:54:02PM -0500, Mike Khusid wrote: > Pasi, > > A few comments about the HOWTO. > All feedback is appreciated :) > You recommend to disable SELinux. SELinux underwent very significant > updates between RHEL5 and RHEL6 and I would encourage you to try keeping > it enabled. I wouldn't be surprised if it "just works". > Yep, it's the "old bad habbit".. I'll try it out with SElinux and update the tutorial. IIRC earlier there was some simple issue, so it might very well just work today.. > In case you need to provide an additional SELinux policies, here are > guidelines for SELinux policy modules: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/SELinux/PolicyModules. I > am a fan of having policy as a separate subpackage. > Thanks. I just noticed SElinux policy bug in fedora 389ds rpms two weeks ago, so that would be another good candidate to practice with :) > Another comment is venerable "rpm -Uvh". RHEL6 introduces "yum history" > which is a very handy way of knowing what was installed when... and > reverting it as needed... but it needs yum command to be used. Could > you please replace those rpm commands with "yum localinstall > --nogpgcheck" (you'll need the latter option for your instructions, > unless you want to add steps to produce signed rpms). > Ok, thanks for that aswell. Good to know. > This won't make Red Hat support Xen in RHEL6, of course :) But these > are "good things to do". > :) Thanks for the reply and suggestions! -- Pasi > -- > Mike Khusid > Product Manager > Red Hat Enterprise Linux > > > On 11/20/2010 09:08 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Some people here might be interested in running Xen 4.0 hypervisor >> (host/dom0) on Redhat Enterprise Linux 6. >> >> Here's a howto that shows how it can be done: >> http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/RHEL6Xen4Tutorial >> >> This method is unsupported by Redhat, but it's still possible :) >> >> -- Pasi >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rhelv5-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > > _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
