A little slow off the mark, but I have finally got FC6 installed.
And I have to say, I am impressed. Using the Open Source drivers my ATI card (9600) renders compiz effects successfully, livna is already there and getting media running was simple. The New Xen stuff is great, and the whole thing is a whole bunch faster.
However, I didn’t hit one hiccup. I was going to install some stuff from extras during install, but I couldn’t tell the install to use a proxy. I knew it would fail, but I tried anyway. The installer eventually timed out and then attempted to eject the DVD for an unexplained reason. It could not, but it couldn’t move forward either. I deemed the install a failure and started again without using extras.
All my new installs will be FC6 based from now, and I guess that will make my documentation fc6 centric. Although I am still supporting a handful of fc3 machines, and almost all of the stuff I do is generic enough to be used across distributions as wll as across versions.
As expected VMWare wouldn’t install without a bit of wrangling.
First I installed kernel-devel from yum, then of coursed I realised that kerne-devel is nolonger the default kernel, and I had to install kernel-xen-devel.
VMWare then needs a patch, download
vmware-any-any-update104.tar.gz, check the parent directory and make sure it is the latest version. Untar it, and as root, run runme.pl. This script will patch the required parts of VMWare to allow the kernel modules to compile. VMWare should now work properly.
Update: 31/Oct/2006
VMWare couldn’t run any virtual machines, I haven’t looked into why, but it looks like a memory allocation issue with the XenSource enabled kernel.
# yum install kernel kernel-devel
Boot from the non xen enabled kernel, run vmware-config.pl again. Now your virtual machines will run.
There must be a way to run Xen along side VMWare, but I haven’t looked into it.
Once of my production servers is running FC4. I am not on a hurry to upgrade it for fear of clobbering some of the settings. The box took a lot of work to set up, and I am not looking forward to the upgrade. But I did need MySQL 5 installed. FC4 comes with MySQL 4, which does not support stored procedures.
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