Creating a Paravirtual Guest with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.8 or 3.9
Replace xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx with the actual MAC address reported by the ifconfig command in the guest.
18.Start the guest with the xm create command, for example xm create /etc/xen/el4u4
The guest is now ready for use.
4.9Creating a Paravirtual Guest with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.8 or 3.9
A paravirtual guest cannot be created using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.8 or 3.9. You must first create a hardware virtualized guest, then convert it to a paravirtualized guest:
1.Create a hardware virtualized guest using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.8 or 3.9 as shown in Section 4.5, "Creating a Guest Using
2.Switch the guest operating system network update server to the Oracle update server (ULN) by following the instructions at https://linux.oracle.com/switch.html.
3.Convert the hardware virtualized guest as shown in Section 4.8, "Converting a Hardware Virtualized Guest to a Paravirtualized Guest".
4.10Installing Paravirtual Drivers
Installing Oracle Enterprise Linux Release 4 Update 4 as a guest operating system may require that you install paravirtual drivers for your hardware. This section lists the steps for installing these paravirtual drivers. To install paravirtual drivers for Oracle Enterprise Linux guest operating systems:
1.Download the paravirtual drivers from http://www.oracle.com/virtualization
2.Untar the drivers to a temporary directory.
3.Modify the /etc/modprobe.conf file to comment out existing eth0 line and add the following lines:
alias scsi_hostadapter xen_vbd alias eth0 xen_vnif
4.Run depmod.
5.Edit
6.Shut down the domain: xm shutdown mydomain
7.Start the domain:
xm create /home/myhome/config
8.When prompted by kudzu, remove the old network configuration.
9.In the newly booted guest operating system, run the following command to find the new MAC address for eth0: