TruBD Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 I just installed the trial version of VMWare to test it out. Went through installation, did the config and launched the app. When I try to Power On a virtual machine it tells me that VMWare can't work with the XEN Hypervisor and that I should disable it first. I googled and googled, searched neowin (btw is it even working?) and can't figure out how to disable XEN in RHEL. Anyone have any clue or mind helping me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyro Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 first . you need to boot into non-xen kernel , then just for retry vmware, it should work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zim.tailor Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Yep, I had that when i ran VMWare on my SUSE Xen kernel.. Z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borbus Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 The host doesn't have a xen aware kernel does it? I thought only the guest needed to be xen aware. Maybe there's a kernel module you can disable for it instead, that way you wouldn't have to boot a different kernel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruBD Posted February 8, 2008 Author Share Posted February 8, 2008 might be a dumb question but im not sure how im suppose to boot to the non xen kernal? this is RHEL5.1 Borbus: apparently RHEl 5.1 runs on the Xen kernal as a virtual system (atleast i think , it shows up as dom0) the guest system i am trying to run in vmware is Windows XP Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyro Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 search for latest non-xen kernel at yum repo and install it, then when you reboot, at grub you should see that in menu , select and boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted February 8, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 8, 2008 You would likely just use yum install with the kernel name you want, and it would install it. I'm not sure what the name would be. Let's see what's installed now! rpm -qa | grep kernel should list out all installed kernels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruBD Posted February 8, 2008 Author Share Posted February 8, 2008 You would likely just use yum install with the kernel name you want, and it would install it.I'm not sure what the name would be. Let's see what's installed now! rpm -qa | grep kernel should list out all installed kernels. kernel-xen-2.6.18-53.el5 kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-53.el5 kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5 kernel-xen-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5 kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted February 8, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 8, 2008 Looks like only xen kernels are currently installed. As a guess (and maybe not a good one, at that), you can try this: yum install kernel-2.6.18-53.1.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruBD Posted February 8, 2008 Author Share Posted February 8, 2008 Looks like only xen kernels are currently installed.As a guess (and maybe not a good one, at that), you can try this: yum install kernel-2.6.18-53.1.6 that worked, just had to add .el5 to the end. ok im booted into the non xen kernel, one quick question: what is the different between these kernels besides the obvious of one not having xen? am i limited to anything? any benefits of me always working on the non xen kernel (except the use of vmware) any disadvantages? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted February 8, 2008 Veteran Share Posted February 8, 2008 The Xen thing is the only difference (to my understanding). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyro Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 what is the different between these kernels besides the obvious of one not having xen?am i limited to anything? any benefits of me always working on the non xen kernel (except the use of vmware) any disadvantages? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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