Re: [Xen-devel] Troubles building the xen linux pv drivers

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 11:53:04PM +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> Hello list.
> 
> I'm having trouble building the xen linux pv drivers from xen 3.4.1:
> [guillaume@oberkampf linux-2.6]$ make -C 
> /lib/modules/2.6.31.5-desktop-1mnb/build/ M=$PWD modules
> make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.31.5-desktop-1mnb'
>   CC [M] 
> /home/guillaume/xen-3.4.1/unmodified_drivers/linux-2.6/balloon/balloon.o
> In file included from 
> /home/guillaume/xen-3.4.1/unmodified_drivers/linux-2.6/balloon/balloon.c:51:
> include/xen/interface/memory.h:32: error: expected 
> specifier-qualifier-list before 'GUEST_HANDLE'
> include/xen/interface/memory.h:53: warning: data definition has no type 
> or storage class
> 
> My current kernel is a 2.6.31.5, and I'm using a vanilla 2.6.30.2 + 
> Andrew Lyon patches as xenified linux tree.
>

I think unmodified_drivers is currently only supported on Linux 2.6.18.
Novell has some patches to make it work on 2.6.27.

Also, afaik, someone at Redhat is working on porting the
unmodified_drivers to pv_ops framework for upstream Linux kernel.

-- Pasi


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