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[Xen-devel] Xen 3.3.1 compilation problems

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Subject: [Xen-devel] Xen 3.3.1 compilation problems
From: Ananth <cbananth@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:34:05 +0530
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Hello,
I am facing problems while compiling Xen from source. Below are the steps I followed to compile. I see various commands being suggested in various sites and READMEs. I did not understand which is the correct way to do it. I am using openSuse 11.0.

1. I downloaded the source tarball from http://www.xen.org/download/

2. Extracted the contents into /usr/src and executed the following commands as root

3. make linux-2.6-xen0-config CONFIGMODE=menuconfig

4. I selected necessary configurations in menuconfig and saved the settings

5. make linux-2.6-xen0-build

6. make linux-2.6-xen0-install

7. mkinitrd -v -i /boot/initrd-2.6.18-xen0 -k /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xen0
    This is because, mkinitrd with the other flags such as ' --with= ' dont seem to be working on my distro. I am not sure if there is a different syntax or the way options are specified is different. However since the kernel image is generated using the previous commands, I created the initrd image for the kernel image by specifying the name of the kernel image using -k.

8. make install KERNELS="linux-2.6-xen0" -- This installs the necessary tools I believe. This did not go to successful completion. It was running on an infinite loop displaying the same set of contents again and again. But since they are just tools, I aborted and edited the /boot/grub/menu.lst to add an entry for the compiled xen.

When I reboot into the compiled kernel, the system halts when the splash screen is getting loaded. Hence i edited the file /etc/inittab and changed the runlevel from 5 to 3.

After a series of boot messages, the system allowed me to login.

Can you please guide me if there is any mistake in the steps followed. I am not sure why the system does not login with runlevel 5. But if i use a precompiled xen installed using the openSuse 11.0 DVD, it works perfectly fine. But i am trying to make small modifications to the xen scheduler, for which I would like to learn to compile it myself.

Thank you very much in advance.

Regards
Ananth



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