[xen-tools] Re: CentOS 4 domUs - what kernel?

[Jeff Forcier]

On Nov 14, 2007 6:40 PM, Steve Kemp <steve at steve.org.uk> wrote:

>   What I will say though is that the mention of 'rpmstrap' sets
>  of warning bells for me.
>
>   rpmstrap is no longer maintained by its author, because of its
>  extreme brittleness.
>
>   Because of that I actually removed support for using it from
>  xen-tools a few releases ago.  Instead the prefered tool to use
>  is a tool called rinse.  This serves the same purpose and apart
>  from being a little slow and inefficient it works in a reliable
>  fashion.

Yea, I saw mention of rinse, but in passing, and it wasn't clear how
new/supported it is - now I know. I'll investigate further and give it
a shot. And knowing that a stock Xen kernel worked for booting a
CentOS domU at least gives me a major data point, as I wasn't at all
sure if that was supposed to be possible.

Thanks,
Jeff