[xen-tools] Re: New Distributions! was Re: Supported distributions?

Gal Buki buki at torus.ch
Mon Jul 16 11:38:10 CEST 2007


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Thanks Steve!
Great work. Looking forward to testing the new distributions.

Steve Kemp wrote:
> On Sun Jul 15, 2007 at 20:08:00 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote:
> 
>> Centos5? :-)
> 
>   Working.
> 
>   1.  Install rinse:
>         <http://xen-tools.org/software/rinse>
> 
>   2.  Get the latest CVS version of xen-tools.
> 
>   3.  Run:
> 
>     xen-create-image --install-method=rinse --dist=centos-5 ...
> 
>     (--dist=[centos-4 | centos-5 | fedora-core-6 ] )
> 
>   4.  Enjoy.
> 
>  Caveats:
> 
>     1.  It is pretty slow.
> 
>     2.  It is *i386* only at the moment.  Shouldn't matter if the
>        host is AMD64, as mine is.
> 
>   Bug reports welcome.  I tested each of them and managed to get
>  them working with only the (minor?) issue that the root passwords
>  and accounts weren't setup correctly.
> 
> Steve
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