[CentOS] [SOLVED - Sort Of] Installing a new VM on a xen box.

2008-10-09 Thread James B. Byrne
On Thu, October 9, 2008 12:09, James B. Byrne wrote: So: # cd /path/to/vm/os/install_tree # cp -pr /media/CentOS_5.2_Final ./ Thereafter the Install Media URL becomes: /path/to/vm/os/install_tree/CentOS_5.2_Final Well, RH implementation of xen appears far less useful from an

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED - Sort Of] Installing a new VM on a xen box.

2008-10-09 Thread nate
James B. Byrne wrote: So, on my test machine that supports only paravirtualization I can only run 64 bit versions of a supported paravirtualized guest OS. This limits me to essentially CentOS-4 and CentOS-5 ix_64. I was hoping to be able to run CentOS-5.2 i386 as a guest as there is no 64

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED - Sort Of] Installing a new VM on a xen box.

2008-10-09 Thread sbeam
On Thursday 09 October 2008 12:31, nate wrote: Now it looks like Red hat has woken up and seen it is a dead end too and is moving to KVM as you mentioned. where did you read this? I have just started with xen too but I don't want to be left hanging...

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED - Sort Of] Installing a new VM on a xen box.

2008-10-09 Thread Kai Schaetzl
James B. Byrne wrote on Thu, 9 Oct 2008 12:27:15 -0400 (EDT): Oh well, this was just a trial to see what was involved with virtualization. James, stop talking to yourself ;-) It's good to look at stock documentation, but it's not enough. Search this list archive for xen and have a look at the

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED - Sort Of] Installing a new VM on a xen box.

2008-10-09 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Nate wrote on Thu, 9 Oct 2008 11:36:13 -0700 (PDT): ut KVM offers more innovation and faster features I would hope that it actually offers just faster, but AFAIK that is what it doesn't. AFAIK a PV CentOS 5 on Xen runs much better and faster than in KVM. Is that true? I've used KVM only once

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED - Sort Of] Installing a new VM on a xen box.

2008-10-09 Thread nate
Kai Schaetzl wrote: I would hope that it actually offers just faster, but AFAIK that is what it doesn't. AFAIK a PV CentOS 5 on Xen runs much better and faster than in KVM. Is that true? I've used KVM only once for a non-PV guest (old Suse System) and not with the kernel module. I think KVM