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

[Henning Sprang]

Jeff Forcier wrote:
> Hey folks, Steve,
>
> I just recently attempted to use xen-tools to generate a CentOS4-based
> domU, where previously I've only used Debian or Ubuntu based domUs.
> While I managed to get past xen-create-image (was bitten by the
> /bin/sh => /bin/dash and rpmstrap issue at first), I must be doing
> something stupid w/r/t the kernel - when you create CentOS domUs with
> xen-tools, how do you generate/use the domU's kernel?
>   

When it comes to kernels, and different distributions as guests, my
experience is that it's best to use the guest's native kernel (if
there's a version available with xen support).

I didn't manage to get to that point with xen-tools(only yesterday I
started testing the centos-5 installs with xen-tools/rinse), so I have
no ready solution on how to do it there, but in many test settings with
different distribution's as guests, it turned out that it's better to
run a kernel made for the distribution in place.
(even if I have to say, on debian it was quite easy to run other
distribiutions as guest with the debian kernel - it was not possible at
all to run anything else on fedora with their kernel, and a lot of
fiddling was needed to get something different run on a suse host - so,
with a debian host, things _might_ work).


Henning