Xen 3.4.3-2 for Fedora Core 12
06 Apr
in cloud, virtualization, xen
I was interested in running Fedora Core 12 amd64 as dom0. Since the default kernel has no dom0 support, I wanted to use the myoung dom0 kernels. Unfortunately, they won't work with Xen 3.4.2 which is the latest included build in Fedora Core 12 and even Rawhide. I took the latest 3.4.3 build, rolled them into RPMs, and installed it. This works with the myoung kernels. Hopefully it will be of use to some of you. If there is interest, I'll stand up a yum repo for this. Chime in with a comment if you are in need of this.
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I've been playing around with the dom0 kernel over on ubuntu karmic running Eucalyptus. Seems very good. I wish they would put dom0 in the mainline kernel.
I tried compiling Eucalyptus on Fedora last year only to find out that Maven is like 5 years old and doesn't support toolchains so I completely abandoned that effort. So glad to see that you succeeded in getting Eucalyptus going on Fedora.
I'm with you on dom0 in the mainline kernel, but it seems like it's on the way. Once it is committed upstream it should finds its way back into the major distributions. Fedora was a bit of an effort to get it all running. The most difficult part is the complete lack of documentation or references. For example, there is no doc that says "use xen 3.4.3 with the myoung kernels" - I first tried 3.4.2, then the 3.4.2 packages from Fedora 13 Alpha, and finally had to roll my own based on the Xen site.
There is another interesting reply I had from the Eucalyptus folks in regards to the EBS and storage engines on a single dom0 host. Basically, EBS requires two Eucalyptus servers and they describe why. It's worth a read.
http://open.eucalyptus.com/forum/ebsstorage-controller-architecture
Thanks for chiming in.
Do you have a 3.4.3 build for 32-bit PAE? I have a hardware limitation on an older server I want to use.
A repo would be great.
Thanks...
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