[xen-tools-discuss] What can I run Xen 4.0 on?

[Brent Bolin]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Dmitry Nedospasov <dmitry at nedos.net> wrote:
> Hey Mike,
>
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 07:41:28PM +1000, Mike Bailey wrote:
>> I've been using Xen on Ubuntu 8.04 but cannot get it working on 10.04.
>>
>> What Distro/Version do people recommend I use to run Xen 4.0?
>
> Depending on how "production" your deployment is, you might want to run
> xen 3.4 over 4.0. From my experience, the best distro to get xen 3.4 up
> and running is CentOS 5.5 [1] with the gitco xen repositories [2].
>
> [1] http://www.centos.org/
> [2] http://www.gitco.de/repo/
>
> Installing xen-tools is also a breeze, though you might need to enable
> the RHEL repositories to get git, so that you can install directly from
> our upstream [3].
>
> [3] http://gitorious.org/xen-tools/xen-tools
>
> If you're planning to run xen 4.0, then by far the easiest way to get
> 4.0 up and running is Debian 6.0 Squeeze (testing) [4][5].
>
> [4] http://www.debian.org
> [5] http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xen-linux-system-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64
>
> The only caveat here, is that since Squeeze is still in testing, there
> is no reliable installer. My favorite way of installing Debian squeeze
> is creating a Finnix [6] bootable USB drive, and using debootstrap.
>
> [6] http://www.finnix.org/
>
> Just don't forget setting that arch flag because otherwise debootsrap
> will default to 32 bit (i.e. --arch amd64) because finnix runs a 32-bit
> userspace. After squeeze is up and running just install
> xen-linux-system, xen-utils and xen-tools.  Xen-tools is almost as up to
> date as you can get on squeeze, so thats probably the best support you
> can get xen-tools-wise.
>
> Anyway, hope that helps!
>
> All the best,
>
> D.
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pygrub was fixed yesterday and is working fine with dom0 squeezy and
domU ubuntu.

When trying to install centos-5 via rinse I get these errors -


Role: udev
	File: /etc/xen-tools/role.d/udev
mv: cannot stat `/tmp/iKSNdts9ma/sbin/start-stop-daemon': No such file
or directory
mount: mount point /tmp/iKSNdts9ma/dev/pts does not exist
chroot: failed to run command `/usr/bin/apt-get': No such file or directory
umount: /tmp/iKSNdts9ma/dev/pts: not found
chroot: failed to run command `/usr/bin/apt-get': No such file or directory
Running command '/etc/xen-tools/role.d/udev /tmp/iKSNdts9ma 2>&1'
failed with exit code 32512.
Aborting

Wondering if this might be related to lvm on centos.  As I recall it's
the standard install