It depends how you set up your Xen on SL5 initially.. If you installed them with virt-install and they are installed on a whole device (/dev/xvda, etc.) then it is pretty easy to flip over to kvm or bring forward to sl6 and beyond. If you installed them on individual file systems, e.g. /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2 and so forth and you do not have a boot sector internal to your Xen VM image then it is almost impossible to do anything with it or to update to anything that is newer. I have seen several online prescriptions of how to do it but none of them worked for me. Steve Timm On Fri, 20 Feb 2015, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > I'm dealing with a Xen 3 server on SL 5 operating system with SL 5 para virtualized guests on it. But I'm having a heck of a time updating guests, getting them CD booted with console access to start the process. > > Any good pointers with the Xen 3.x built into SL 5 would be welcome. I know it's matured a *lot* since then, and a lot of guidelines just don't apply to such an old setup. > > Nico Kadel-Garcia > Email: [log in to unmask] > Sent from iPhone > >> On Feb 6, 2015, at 0:25, Steven Haigh <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> As some of you might know, I package Xen and a Xen Dom0 kernel for EL7. >> >> If anyone uses Xen and want to test packages for EL7, take a look at: >> http://au1.mirror.crc.id.au/repo/el7-testing/ >> >> The testing repo has Xen version 4.5.0 and kernel 3.14.31. >> >> Bug tracker: >> http://xen.crc.id.au/bugs/my_view_page.php >> >> Mailing list: >> https://lists.wireless.org.au/mailman/listinfo/kernel-xen >> >> -- >> Steven Haigh >> >> Email: [log in to unmask] >> Web: http://www.crc.id.au >> Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven C. Timm, Ph.D (630) 840-8525 [log in to unmask] http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/ Office: Wilson Hall room 804 Fermilab Scientific Computing Division, Scientific Computing Facilities Quadrant., Experimental Computing Facilities Dept., Project Lead for Virtual Facility Project.