Posts made by m076162

@MichaelCropper, to answer your question, yes, I enabled networking during the installation process. This allowed me to SSH in following the subsequent reboot to run yum groupinstall "Workstation". VGA was enabled for me and then Video RAM was at 16MiB. @ben20ben brings up good advice with the XCP-ng tools, install it and life gets easier.

This is what I have so far, I backtracked what I did on my build and actually built a test instance to find mistakes made. Feel free to download, edit, and/or provide feedback.

xobuild_fedora.txt

Hope I'm not too late for the party... I was fighting this one too... or something similar.

Try installing CentOS 8 with the Workstation group install (so yum groupinstall "Workstation" if you've already run the setup wizard). Also, VGA is enabled for me but I bumped the Video RAM up to 16MiB from 8; this seems to make the difference for me.

This, at last, gets me a consistent login screen.

Red Hat had advised against setting up v8 VMs as "Server with GUI" due to issues with console display; not sure if this is still current. The CentOS 8 template appears to be a non-factor, at least for me.

@olivierlambert I was able to find the equivalent packages for Fedora and my XO is up and running. I just wanted to see if anyone was interested in having a writeup of what I did. I didn't want to reinvent the wheel if there was already something out there.

Anyone interested in instructions on how to build XO for sources on Fedora? I recently had success building XO with Fedora as the OS and didn't see any instructions on how to do so here or elsewhere. Please let me know if anyone could use a writeup or if there are instructions out there and I just missed them; this is entirely possible. Building XO on the Red Hat side of the house was much preferred for streamlining the OSs used in my home lab.