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Re: [Xen-users] Xen 3 + kernel 2.4.30 = failure, why oh why

To: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen 3 + kernel 2.4.30 = failure, why oh why
From: Itai Tavor <itai@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 19:39:22 +1000
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Ok... thanks, Mats.

I thought domain 0 couldn't be 2.4, didn't realize I couldn't even use 2.4 in a guest.

No 2.4 in Xen, no 2.6 in IPCop... oh well, IPCop stays in its box.

Itai


On 24/04/2006, at 7:06 PM, Petersson, Mats wrote:

I believe there's no patch for kernel 2.4.x to work with Xen 3.

It would of course be possible to create such a thing, but it's a fair
amount of work checking that nothing got missed and/or something hasn't
been broken.

Of course, with new processors that support Hardware Virtualization, you
could probably support just about ANY kernel - Linux kernels should
definitely work quite well, other OS kernels may find the odd bug left
to find in the HVM support routines... ;-)

--
Mats

-----Original Message-----
From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Itai Tavor
Sent: 23 April 2006 09:53
To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Xen-users] Xen 3 + kernel 2.4.30 = failure, why oh why

Hi,

I installed Xen 3.0 and managed to get it to work without too
many problems, I got several working domains using
linux-2.6.16-xenU. I'm trying to set up a domain with
linux-2-4.30 (to run IPCop on) but I keep getting Error: (22,
'Invalid argument'). I started with a stock 2.4.30 kernel,
patched it with linux-2.4.30-xen.patch and configured it for
a guest, then did:

# make ARCH=xen dep
# make ARCH=xen clean
# make ARCH=xen bzImage
# cp arch/xen/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.30-xenU # xm
create -c ipcop.sxp Using config file "/etc/xen/ipcop.sxp".
Error: (22, 'Invalid argument')

My config is:

name = "ipcop"
kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.30-xenU"
root = "/dev/hda4"
memory = 128
disk = [ 'phy:system/ipcop-boot,hda1,w',
          'phy:system/ipcop-log,hda2,w',
          'phy:system/ipcop-root,hda4,w' ]

The same config, with the kernel changed to
vmlinuz-2.6.16-xenU works fine.

Any ideas?

TIA, Itai

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