
7.3.1 Installing the RHEL 4 Drivers
1
Open a terminal.
2
Locate the RPM package you want to install ( opt/novell/vm-driver
-pack).
If you are installing from the binary RPM included with the driver pack, the RPM
is located on the driver pack ISO. .
(Optional) If you are installing from an RPM that you built, the RPM is located
in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/arch, where arch is the architecture of the
virtual machine. See Section 7.3.5, “Building Your Own RPMs” (page 77) for
more information.
3
Set up the ISO image or CD as a virtual CD reader by following the instructions
in Section 5.1, “Virtual CD Readers” (page 33).
4
Enter rpm -U xxx.rpm , where xxx is the RPM lename.
5
Edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst le and make the following change:
For each drive specied in the virtual machine conguration le (for example,
hda and hdb), append hdx=noprobe to the kernel line for the updated kernel,
where hdx is the drive specication found in the virtual machine conguration
le.
6
Shut down the virtual machine.
7
On the virtualization host server, open a terminal and enter xm delete
vm_name to delete the virtual machine’s reference in the xenstore so it is no
longer managed.
TIP
Enter xm list to see the name of the virtual machine ( vm_name).
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