Re: [CentOS-virt] Installing old Suse as fully virtualized guest: problem with install source

2008-04-21 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Kai Schaetzl wrote on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:15:24 +0200: > I start with virt-manager and after choosing "fully virtualized" it > presents me two options for install media: iso image and CD-ROM or DVD, > but the latter is grayed out. I created an image from the first CD and tried to install from i

Re: [CentOS-virt] Installing old Suse as fully virtualized guest: problem with install source

2008-04-21 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Michael Will wrote on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:59:23 -0700: > if not, try to install it with yum ok, it's in Extras. I can start the install from an iso image, but it's extremely slow. As I read this is normal without kqemu. Unfortunately, there's no kqemu or similar sounding rpm in Extras. Kai --

Re: [CentOS-virt] Installing old Suse as fully virtualized guest: problem with install source

2008-04-21 Thread Michael Will
libvirt enables you to run that stuff side by side. I don't know the answer about the rpms, I just have done it on fedora core 8 before. I presume you could find out quicker than my by looking for it first if it is installed: rpm -q qemu if not, try to install it with yum yum install qemu

Re: [CentOS-virt] Installing old Suse as fully virtualized guest: problem with install source

2008-04-21 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Michael Will wrote on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:28:56 -0700: > fyi: paravirtualized means the OS is new enough to have extensions to be > virtualization-aware and support it in order to > not have to emulate all of the hardware completely. The older OS would > probably run fully virtualized, i.e. in a

Re: [CentOS-virt] Installing old Suse as fully virtualized guest: problem with install source

2008-04-21 Thread Michael Will
fyi: paravirtualized means the OS is new enough to have extensions to be virtualization-aware and support it in order to not have to emulate all of the hardware completely. The older OS would probably run fully virtualized, i.e. in a QEMU environment. Michael Kai Schaetzl wrote: Using CentOS

[CentOS-virt] Installing old Suse as fully virtualized guest: problem with install source

2008-04-21 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Using CentOS 5.1 with Xen 3.2. I'm trying to install a fully virtualized system for the first time and doing this with an old Suse 9.0 (this probably would run paravirtualized, maybe it won't run, anyway, because of hardware problems). I start with virt-manager and after choosing "fully virtualiz