Adding the Red Hat Virtualization Server 5 channel to mrepo

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Contents 1 Overview 2 Red Hat Network changes 3 mrepo configuration changes 4 yum.conf configuration changes

Overview

In this example, my server is already registered to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386 channel in mrepo:

# gensystemid -u RHN_user -p RHN_password --release=5Server --arch=i386 /mrepo/5Server-i386/

I add this system to the Red Hat Virtualization Server 5 channel. Client systems cannot run yum update xen if the virtualization channel is not available:

# yum install xen
...
Error: Missing Dependency: xen-libs = 3.0.3-25.el5 is needed by package xen

Red Hat Network changes

To add this server to the Red Hat Virtualization Server 5 i386 channel:

* Login to Red Hat Network.
* Select Systems.
* Choose the system that is subscribed to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 channel. e.g., server-5Server-i386-mrepo
* Select Alter Channel Subscriptions.
* Under Release Channels for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for IA-32, select RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 for 32-bit x86) and click Change Subscriptions.

mrepo configuration changes

• Add the following in the [5Server] stanza in your mrepo.conf configuration file.

[5Server]
...
virtualization = rhns:///rhel-$arch-server-vt-$release

• Update and generate the repository.

# mrepo -ug 5Server-i386

yum.conf configuration changes

Example /etc/yum.conf changes:

...
[virtualization]
name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Virtualization
baseurl=http://server/mrepo/$releasever-$basearch/RPMS.virtualization/