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Re: [Xen-users] poor IDE buffered disk reads on dom0

To: Anand <xen.mails@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] poor IDE buffered disk reads on dom0
From: Chris Fanning <christopher.fanning@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:57:42 +0100
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Thankyou Anand. That has solved the problem.
Al those modules take a while to compile. I think I had better look
into cutting them down a little.

Cheers.
Chris.

On 1/25/06, Anand <xen.mails@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 1/25/06, Chris Fanning <christopher.fanning@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Can you point me to a link on that?
> >
> > my install procedure simply:
> >
> > wget ..../downloads/xen-3.0.0-src.tgz
> > tar -xvzf xen-3.0.0-src.tgz
> > cd xen-unstable
> > make world
> > make install
> > sh ./install.sh
> >
> > /boot/grub/menu.lst
> > title   Xen 3.0.0 / XenLinux 2.6.12.6-xen0
> > root    (hd0,0)
> > kernel  /xen.gz dom0_mem=128M
> > module  /vmlinuz-2.6.12.6-xen0 root=/dev/hda6 ro console=tty0
> >
>
> In between your steps
>
> cd xen-unstable
> make world
>
> Just before the make world, do this
>
> vi Makefile
>
> Change
>
> KERNELS ?= linux-2.6-xen0 linux-2.6-xenU
>
> to
>
> KERNELS ?= linux-2.6-xen
>
>  This will help compile the linux-2.6-xen kernel. The same kernel can be
> used for dom0 as well as domU.
>
> Alternatively you can follow the README file in the xen distribution
>
> make KERNELS=linux-2.6-xen world
>  make install
>
> As for more documentation, just search this list for xen kernel and posts by
> Ian, you should see a lot of posts by him on this matter. There is an entry
> in wiki also on this, however i can't seem to find it right now. However the
> above works for me for compiling the xen kernel.
>
> Don't forget to create a initrd (read the README file)
>
> --
>
> regards,
>
> Anand

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