Comments on: Changing to a non-xen kernel in CentOS 5 (so you can run VMware Server)

By: yan

yan — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:52:28 +0000

So from what I can see when installing centOs (RHEL 5 i my case) with virtualization it installs an Xen kernel but when this component is not selected a regular kernel is installed. It is okay to use the normal kernel with the virtualization component installed?

By: Luke Russell Anderson

Luke Russell Anderson — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:31:33 +0000

Hey Zack,
A big thanks for this tip, I needed to use VMWare to perform an “in place” Windows to Linux migration and this helped me loads.
Keep up the great work and site.
Luke

By: ang

ang — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:30:51 +0000

hi, i tried changing to a non xen kernel but somehow my network did not work after that. so i changed back to the xen kernel. can you advise? thanks in advance

By: thor

thor — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:48:46 +0000

what makes Xen so much better than vmware?

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:50:41 +0000

Whoops, I take it back. System booted to GRUB menu and then couldn’t find the newly installed kernel. I don’t know why it happened but it was early enough on that it was just easier to reinstall OS without virtualization.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:58:30 +0000

Thanks Zack. I don’t know why it was going to be drawn-out and complicated… maybe because some other sources made it out to be so. This was simple thanks to your post.

By: James

James — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:26:05 +0000

Thanks; we’re using VMWare at work and I needed to install on my lab machine to test- this made it quick & painless

By: Pradeep

Pradeep — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:17:38 +0000

Good tip!
I initially had doubt on xen Virtualization.

By: Zack Williams

Zack Williams — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:10:30 +0000

Look at the end of the kernel version string – xen kernels end in “xen”, like this:

2.6.18-92.1.10.el5xen

By: Hyundo

Hyundo — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:20:47 +0000

The line that says default= specifies which kernel to load, where 0 is the first one listed in the file. In my case, I had to change the line that says default=1 to default=0 to specify the non-xen kernel.

In here, how do I which kernel is to specify the non-xen kernel?
Could you e-mail me?
Thank you.

By: routerguy

routerguy — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:42:29 +0000

Many thanks for this!