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Re: [Xen-users] Xen packages availible for Ubuntu and Debian

To: ed despard <despareg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen packages availible for Ubuntu and Debian
From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 22:47:25 +0100
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Would this be the approach if i wanted to add LVM support too?
Xen boots fine (I have a separate /boot partition, so I had to 
strip the leading xenkernels.conf paths), but the dom0 
kernel stops after trying to mount a rootfs (which I guess is because I 
have an LVM root). 

The entry generated looks like:

kernel /xen-2.0.7.gz dom0_mem=65536
module /xen/dom0/vmlinuz-2.6.11-xen0 root=/dev/mapper/toadvg-rootlv
savedefault
boot


I tried cheating and feeding it an initrd from my 2.6.10 ubuntu kernel, 
but that's too big (almost 5Mb, max compiled into the xen kernel is 4096Kb).


On 30/08/05, ed despard <despareg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The source packages for everything are also available, but what i think
> you really want are the kernel-patch packages.  Use apt-cache to find
> which kernel-patch-$VERSION-xen packages are available for stable or
> unstable.  Once you have the kernel patch and the upstream kernel
> source code, you can build your own kernel with whichever configuration
> you would like.  Then just add an entry to /etc/xenkernels.conf, and
> run update-grub-xen.
> 
> Edward Despard
> 
> On Aug 30, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Eric Brown wrote:
> 
> > It would be very nice if the source packages were available too. Newer
> > hardware (like mine) sometimes needs kernel patching.
> >
> > On Aug 29, 2005, at 10:03 AM, ed despard wrote:
> >
> >> I would like to announce the availability of packages of xen stable,
> >> and unstable for both Ubuntu and Debian.
> >> (for those who already saw the previous announcement on the xen-users
> >> list, see below for package changes)
> >>
> >> The stable packages are from the most recent stable release, 2.0.7,
> >> while the unstable packages are from a recent nightly snapshot.
> >> Included are all the packages you will need to have a fully
> >> functional Xen installation.  This includes kernel packages built
> >> with the default Xen configurations, and also kernel patches that
> >> facilitate building kernels that more closely match your existing
> >> kernel configuration.  The kernel packages also include a
> >> configuration system that will determine (or if your priority is set
> >> to medium ask you) the necessary xen root device, and domain 0 memory
> >> allocations.  For more info on this system, see the man page for the
> >> included update-grub-xen, and the /etc/xenkernels.conf file.
> >> Especially of interest to many is the --default option to
> >> update-grub-xen, which will take steps to write the xen entries as
> >> the default in your grub configuration file.
> >>
> >> These packages are available at mirror.clarkson.edu, by adding the
> >> appropriate lines to your sources file, and then installing the xen
> >> package, and optionally the appropriate kernel patch package.
> >>
> >> http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/xenophilia/xendebs/
> >> debian xen-stable main
> >>
> >> http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/xenophilia/xendebs/
> >> debian xen-unstable main
> >>
> >> http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/xenophilia/xendebs/
> >> ubuntu xen-stable main
> >>
> >> http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/xenophilia/xendebs/
> >> ubuntu xen-unstable main
> >>
> >>
> >> -- edward despard
> >>
> >> Future goals with these packages:
> >>     consolidate xenu and xen0 kernel packages into single xen
> >> configuration
> >>     make update-grub-xen script more robust, ie add better initrd
> >> detection to it?
> >>     autobuild unstable packages nightly
> >>
> >> Changes from packages previously announced on xen-users:
> >>     fixed python dependencies errors
> >>     removed bashisms from update-grub-xen script
> >>     added kernel patch packages
> >>     fixed bug in kernel config scripts when priority was set to high
> >> (bad assumptions on my part)
> >>
> >>
> >>
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