On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 21:08:44 Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 08:14:10AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > Sh> Replace the entire hardware with a new one (optional), install a > Sh> fairly recent version of Linux, and Xen 2 on it. Copy your entire > Sh> current RedHat 7.2 distro to the Xen image, and replace the kernel > Sh> with a 2.4 kernel of your compiling which has the > Sh> para-virtualization patch from the Xen 2 source tree (that's the > Sh> reason you cannot use Xen 3). Hell, if might actually work on the > Sh> same hardware you currently have..... > > I wouldn't recommend Xen 2 to anyone who cares about their bits. I do > think it's a good idea to buy a new machine which has Intel VT-x or > AMD SVM and run the old machine's image under Xen (possible) or KVM > (recommended). You get the best of both worlds.
I had a similar problem (FC4 did not recognized new disks). I installed Centos 5.1 (2.6.18-53.el5xen) and built on it a guest OS (FC4, 2.6.11) with full virtualization. I had a few problems on the way - 1. Setting a fixed IP (not NAT) on the same network as the host. This required changing the network definition on the host so all machines (real and virtual) used a common bridge. 2. The application (not the OS) did not perform well - I changed the guest OS from 64 bit to 32 bit - and it solved it. Added benefit for using guest OS is that backup (which I don't need - no data is saved on the machine) and duplicating it (which I did) is a snap. Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D <http://www.keyserver.net/> Better Safe Than Sorry ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
