So I'm a bit new to the RHEL side of life. I come from a Solaris/BSD background, so the virtualization I've done and am extremely comfortable with is with jails and zone's, and of course VMware. I have read plenty on Xen and understand how it works, but now I would like to give a test on my test system that I recently had deployed.

So that is where my lack of RHEL knowledge comes in.. reading the documentation from RedHat's site, they say I need to install their Virtualization software, but I don't see any downloads for it and I don't see anything other than Xen guest kernels when I do a "yum search".. Can someone kindly point me to further documentation, or tips on where I would go to actually get the xen binaries to install on RHEL5?

Thanks!
Kristofer

G'day - the key here is the Xen kernel. Both the host and the guest machines need to use the Xen kernel in their installations. If you do 'yum search xen' you will see the xen-kernel listed as well as other xen management tools. Install the kernel, set as default, reboot and start xen'ing

The xen kernel is installed by default on new installs.

Hope this helps!

This is an old thread, but I'm going to bump it because I have the same question.

I just got a shiny new Planet server with RHEL5 on it. I want to install Xen. When I search with Yum, *all* I see are the kernels and the libs, no tools.

In reference to the one previous reply this thread has received, I realize that the Xen kernel is important. But that kernel (which was not installed by default, incidentally) is useless if I don't have the tools to create and manage the virtual machines. Where does one find these tools to install with Yum?

Never mind. When it became obvious that no one wanted to volunteer the information, I hunted down a copy of the Red Hat DVD, went through it and found the needed RPMs, uploaded them to my server, and installed them manually.