Fedora 17 with Xen 4.1

1. yum -y upgrade kernel

2. yum -y install xen libvirt python-virtinst

3. Open /boot/grub/menu.lst or /boot/grub2/grub.cfg to add those items:

title Fedora + Xen (3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64)   

root (hd0,1)     kernel /boot/xen.gz

module /boot/vmlinuz-3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64 ro root=/dev/sda1

module /boot/initramfs-3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64.img

4. xm dmesg | head -n 5

5. /etc/init.d/libvirtd start; chkconfig libvirtd on

6. virt-install \   

--paravirt \   

--name=testvm \   

--ram=512 \   

--vcpus=4 \   

--file /dev/vmstorage/testvm \   

--graphics vnc,port=5905 --noautoconsole \   

--autostart 

--noreboot \   

--location=http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-amd64/

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Part1:

[root@localhost ~]$ chkconfig network on
[root@localhost ~]$ /etc/init.d/network start

[root@localhost ~]$ gedit /etc/selinux/config

# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.

# SELINUX= can take one of these three values:

#     enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced.

#     permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.

#     disabled - No SELinux policy is loaded.

SELINUX=disabled

# SELINUXTYPE= can take one of these two values:

#     targeted - Targeted processes are protected,

#     mls - Multi Level Security protection.

SELINUXTYPE=targeted

[root@localhost ~]$ gedit /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4

::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6

127.0.0.1    f16 localhost.localdomain

[root@localhost ~]$ yum update

[root@localhost ~]$ chkconfig iptables off

[root@localhost ~]$ chkconfig ksmtuned off

[root@localhost ~]$ reboot

Part2:

[root@localhost ~]$ yum groupinstall "Development Libraries"  

[root@localhost ~]$ yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

[root@localhost ~]$ yum install transfig wget texi2html libaio-devel dev86 glibc-devel e2fsprogs-devel gitk mkinitrd iasl xz-devel bzip2-devel

pciutils-libs pciutils-devel SDL-devel libX11-devel gtk2-devel bridge-utils PyXML qemu-common qemu-img mercurial

[root@localhost ~]$ yum install glibc-devel.i686

[root@localhost ~]$ yum install xen
[root@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/xenconsoled start
[root@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/xend start
[root@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/xendomains start
[root@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/xencommons start
[root@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/xenstored start
[root@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/libvirtd start
[root@localhost ~]$ reboot