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RHEL5.5 yum can't see a package (xen) on repo?

hi i'm trying to install xen via yum on RHEL 5.5. When i browse the repo here: http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/ I can see the package i want. specifically ...
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Xen P2V for large physical hosts with much free space

I need to P2V a rhel5 machine to xen under rhel5. I know I can use dd if=/dev/sda then using virt-install --import on the host, but the downside of this is the original machine has 80% free space on ...
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setting up Ubuntu 10.10 as paravirtualized guest in Xen on RHEL5 host - what kernel?

I've discovered the tool ubuntu-vm-builder, which I've installed and then invoked on an Ubuntu workstation as: sudo vmbuilder xen ubuntu --suite maverick --flavour virtual --arch amd64 --mem=512 ...
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Xen guests accessing LUNs

We are using RHEL5.3 with a Clarion SAN attached by FC. Our situation is that we have a number of LUNs presented to Hosts and we want to dynamically present the LUNs to Xen Guests. We are not sure ...
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How do I remove Xen kernel and put normal kernel on RHEL 5

I have 3 identical machines (hardware wise) that all have RHEL 5.3 installed. 2 of those machines have the Xen kernel and one doesnt. I cannot install nvidia drivers on the ones that have the xen ...
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Recreating Xen configuration from existing domain

I have a bunch of Xen DomUs running on Xen 3.3.2 on RHEL5.4. I've setup those VMs as a complete Xen rookie and now I notice that using virt-manager might not have been the best idea, since I don't ...
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Getting your free RHN Entitlements for Para-Virtualised machines?

We run Xen on an RHEL 5 host with RHEL 5 paravirtualised guests. In theory we are entitled to 4 free entitlemets for paravirtualised guests on each Xen host with the "Virtualisation" entitlement. I ...
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bond0 and xen = crash

Bonding with xen 1 - Stop all guests. Reboot dom0 after running "chkconfig xend off" and "chkconfig xendomains off". 2 - Configure bond0 by enslaving eth0 and eth1 to it. I added the below two entries ...
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Easiest way to convert HVM DomU to PVM?

I've got a bunch of Xen 3.4 DomUs that are currently running as HVM because of our infrastructure (Kickstart which doesn't handle Xen PVM yet). Both DomU and Dom0 are RHEL5 machines. If I understand ...