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[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

Huh, I was suspecting this bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460585

But now I see it's only about virtinst! So maybe you are right and the
problem is just the xen kernel... Going to try that out.

Marco

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:02 AM, Lance Albertson <lance at osuosl.org> wrote:
> Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>>
>> Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at sugarlabs.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Marco, sugarlabs1 is already a F10, although it was apparently
>>>> obtained by upgrading from F9.  Would that work anyway?
>>>
>>> The only reason it boots is that it still uses the F8 kernel (it was
>>> upgraded from F8). If you boot with the F10 kernel it breaks.
>>
>> Err... I guess the problem is that xen was dropped in later versions
>> of Fedora.
>>
>> But today's stock kernels come with the paravirtops enabled, so they
>> should be virtualizable cooperatively in a way or another.  Maybe we
>> should be using kvm in stead of xen?  Or a newer version of xen?
>>
>> I'm not such an expert in virtualization matters...
>>
>
> You probably need to install the kernel-xen package instead of the kernel
> package (assuming its in F10 too, I see it in F9 at least). I deal with a
> lot of xen/kvm stuff here at the OSL so I probably can shed some light on
> it. I don't think I've fired up a Fedora VM yet in Xen but I know with
> CentOS you need kernel-xen or it won't boot.
>
> Cheers-
>
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