[Xen-users] Re: 3.0.2x as a debian package?

[Matt Palmer <mpalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 09:06:30PM +0200, Torsten Werner wrote:
> On 5/5/06, Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Hopefully never.  3.0.2 (+some extras from hg mainline) is now in Debian
> >unstable, and appropriately patched kernels are now available as well.
> 
> How are the kernels build? Is there a package linux-patch-xen somewhere?

Sorry, I *was* a bit vague on the "appropriately patched kernels are
available" bit, wasn't I?

Xen kernels are now built along with the myriad of other flavours of kernel
in the standard Debian kernel package.  Thus, you can just (for instance)
run

apt-get install linux-image-2.6-xen-amd64-k8 linux-modules-2.6-xen-amd64-k8

(as I did several times over the course of yesterday) and have your
up-to-date Xen kernel installed.  You use that kernel for both your dom0 and
domU (never done it before, but it worked fine).

If you want to build your own custom kernels, then you're on your own a bit
-- there's no kernel-patch-xen package created from the xen-3.0 source
package, but considering that the only time in the past 3 years I've built
my own kernel has been for Xen (and UML, which I won't be needing any more)
support, I don't think that's a huge issue.  Making a kernel-patch-xen
package would actually be fairly tricky with the way that the kernel "patch"
is provided in the Xen source distribution (look at the contortions that
Adam Heath had to go through to make a kernel-patch-xen package in the Xen
2.0 packages) so I don't have *any* criticisms for the Xen3 packaging team. 

- Matt

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