It depends how you set up your Xen on SL5 initially..
If you installed them with virt-install and they are installed on
a whole device (/dev/xvda, etc.) then it is pretty easy to flip over
to kvm or bring forward to sl6 and beyond.
If you installed them on individual file systems, e.g. /dev/sda1,
/dev/sda2 and so forth and you do not have a boot sector internal
to your Xen VM image then it is almost impossible to do anything with
it or to update to anything that is newer. I have seen several
online prescriptions of how to do it but none of them worked for me.
Steve Timm
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
I'm dealing with a Xen 3 server on SL 5 operating system with SL 5 para
virtualized guests on it. But I'm having a heck of a time updating guests,
getting them CD booted with console access to start the process.
Any good pointers with the Xen 3.x built into SL 5 would be welcome. I know
it's matured a *lot* since then, and a lot of guidelines just don't apply to
such an old setup.
Nico Kadel-Garcia
Email: nka...@gmail.com
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On Feb 6, 2015, at 0:25, Steven Haigh <net...@crc.id.au> wrote:
Hi all,
As some of you might know, I package Xen and a Xen Dom0 kernel for EL7.
If anyone uses Xen and want to test packages for EL7, take a look at:
http://au1.mirror.crc.id.au/repo/el7-testing/
The testing repo has Xen version 4.5.0 and kernel 3.14.31.
Bug tracker:
http://xen.crc.id.au/bugs/my_view_page.php
Mailing list:
https://lists.wireless.org.au/mailman/listinfo/kernel-xen
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