OpenNebula- Red Hat Xen Node

For the record, if your are running Red Hat, consider making the move to KVM-- That is where they will be focusing their attentions. This is not to say that Xen is dead, since it is re-included in Fedora 12. Having said that, my test cluster is old hardware that won't support KVM, so I'm having to do my OpenNebula development on Xen.

To test Red Hat functionality, I needed to build a Xen node. I could have used CrapOS... I'm sorry that was a type... I meant to say: I could have used CentOS for this test, but we all know how stupid that would be.

What follows is a little black magic used only for testing. These are the steps needed to take an @base install on 5.5 and get Xen running. Since yum sometimes gets confused on this process, it is best done directly off the CD or a mounted image:

rpm -Uvh Server/kernel-xen-[0-9]*.rpm
rpm -Uvh Server/bridge-utils-[0-9]*.rpm
rpm -Uvh Server/xen-libs-[0-9]*.rpm
rpm -Uvh --nodeps Server/SDL-[0-9]*.rpm
rpm -Uvh VT/libvirt-[0-9]*.rpm
rpm -Uvh VT/libvirt-python-[0-9]*.rpm
rpm -Uvh VT/python-virtinst-[0-9]*.rpm
rpm -Uvh VT/xen-[0-9]*.rpm
sed -i "s/default=1/default=0/" /boot/grub/grub.conf
reboot

Note: the nodeps argument is to avoid complaints about sound drivers. Since we are building a cloud node, we don't care 'bout no stinkin' sound drivers.

Now, the dependencies for OneNebula:

yum install -y ruby xmlrpc

Unfortunately, there is one dependancy missing from the Red Hat disto, so we have to grab it from Fedora. Due to some glibc versioning issues, we go back to F8:

wget http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386.newkey/xmlrpc-c-1.06.31-2.fc8.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh --nodeps xmlrpc-c-1.06.31-2.fc8.i386.rpm

And lets try Open Nebula:

rpm -Uvh one-1.4.0-1.i386.rpm
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