Subject: Re: [vserver] xen+vserver+centos5/RHEL5
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:05:22 +0200

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 05:51:53PM -0400, Edward Capriolo wrote:
> Hey all,

> I happily run vserver on my 386 laptop as well as my 64bit servers
> with centos5. Most/all of my experience has been in
> fedora/redhat/cent. I have a pretty decent time finding RHEL/CENT rpm
> packages, but I have noticed that when I want an exotic thing I find
> it with deb, etch, emerge associated with it.

> http://packages.debian.org/etch/ipw2100-modules-2.6-xen-vserver-686
> http://www.completefusion.com/wordpress/virtualization-vserver-and-xen-on-debian-etch/

> So my initial worry seems cured, in that someone has built a
> vserver+xen kernel. Does anyone have any tips for doing this on
> redhat?

probably ... in general we advise yo build your own
kernel, and of course, that can be a Xen Dom0 as well
as a Xen DomU kernel (or a Usermode Linux one, or
a KVM host/guest, ...)

best,
Herbert

> Thank you,
> Edward