[Xen-users] 2.6.20-1-amd64 Xen with RHEL5 guest

[Alex Samad <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

I am having some problems installing a paravirt RHEL guest on a deb amd64 xen 
machine

uname -a = Linux debxen 2.6.20-1-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Apr 24 22:23:22 UTC 2007 
x86_64 GNU/Linux ============== xm info ==============
host                   : debxen
release                : 2.6.20-1-xen-amd64
version                : #1 SMP Tue Apr 24 22:23:22 UTC 2007
machine                : x86_64
nr_cpus                : 4
nr_nodes               : 1
sockets_per_node       : 2
cores_per_socket       : 2
threads_per_core       : 1
cpu_mhz                : 2800
hw_caps                : 
178bfbff:ebd3fbff:00000000:00000010:00002001:00000000:0000001f
total_memory           : 8191
free_memory            : 512
xen_major              : 3
xen_minor              : 0
xen_extra              : .3-1
xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_64 hvm-3.0-x86_32 hvm-3.0-x86_32p 
hvm-3.0-x86_64
xen_pagesize           : 4096
platform_params        : virt_start=0xffff800000000000
xen_changeset          : Tue Oct 17 22:09:52 2006 +0100 cc_compiler            
: gcc version 4.1.2 20061028 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-19)
cc_compile_by          : ultrotter
cc_compile_domain      : debian.org
cc_compile_date        : Fri Nov  3 00:21:27 CET 2006
xend_config_format     : 2

==============
cat rhel5-x86_64.cfg
==============
#
#  Kernel + memory size
#
kernel      = '/etc/xen/data/rhel5-x86_64/vmlinuz'
ramdisk     = '/etc/xen/data/rhel5-x86_64/initrd.img'
memory      = '128'

#
#  Disk device(s).
#
root        = '/dev/sda1 ro'
disk        = [ 'phy:vglocal/rhel5-x86_64-disk,sda,w', 
'phy:vglocal/rhel5-x86_64-swap,sdb,w']

#
#  Hostname
#
name        = 'rhel5-x86_64'

#
#  Networking
#
dhcp        = 'dhcp'
#vif         = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr0' ]
vif         = [ '' ]

#
#  Behaviour
#
on_poweroff = 'destroy'
on_reboot   = 'restart'
on_crash    = 'restart'


serial = "pty"
localtime = 0
vcpus = 1



I have downloaded the RHEL 5 x86_64 cds, loop mounted disk 1, I have taken off 
the /isolinux/{initrd.img,vmlinux} and /images/xen/{initrd.img,vmlinux} files

When I boot from the /isolinux files, seems like the kernel is not xen'ed so 
will not boot. When I try and boot from the /images/xen, it boots, but it can't 
find any block devices.  



Any idea's hints ? is this the wrong list to be posting to ?

Alex

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