[xen-tools] Re: Using Xen-Tools to install a Debian domU on a Centos5 dom0

[Henning Sprang]

On 6/18/07, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have tried to install a Debian domU on a Centos5 dom0 by using alien
> to convert xen-tools and its dependency .deb packages for Etch and
> installing them with rpm. Is this a good approach?

Alien is always a bit of a "dirty" approach - it works for some
packages, and not for others.
But AFAIK, theres no nice packages alien for fedora/redhat, just for suse.
When I had to do that, I built a debootstrap on suse to use it on
fedora. (ping me if you want me to search it for you - you will need
that, too).

Just install xen-tools with make install - it has an uninstall target,
too, to get it removed cleanly.
Or help building proper rpm's (I don't know how this is done, but if
you use centOs a lot, and want xen-tools, this is the way to go -
knowing to package for your dist of choice is a good thing anyway.
And Steve will probably be glad to put necessary patches in to build rpm's...

You will also need the Perl module Text::Template, it's surely
available on centos, I just don't klnow it's name.

And then, debootstrap needs the argument --arch - AFAIk(as debootstrap
detects this with dpkg, which you don't have on centos) I know I told
Steve once to build something into xen-tools to take thius into
account, but I don't remember if that really happened - I only played
with fedora a little bit when writing a book - I will not use in on a
daily basis.

That all sounds complicated, but it really didn't cost me a lot of
time to get xen-tools working on fedora AFAIK.
Henning