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Re: [Xen-users] Moved from Xen 2 to Xen 3... some questions..

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Moved from Xen 2 to Xen 3... some questions..
From: Steve Kemp <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 12:35:11 +0100
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On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 12:25:35PM +0100, George Styles wrote:

> Ive got it working, but I want to ask a couple of questions about it.

  I can't help with all of them, but I'll answer a couple of your
 questions.

>    1. There no longer seems to be a seperate DomU and Dom0 built when I build
>    from source. Is this the new policy? this would suit me, as I always used
>    Xen0 kernels in my guest domains anyway.

  Yes.  You can still build seperate kernels if you wish, but it is no
 longer the default.


>    5. Is there ANY way to see the pre-linux-kernel messages from boot (the
>    messages from the hypervisor)? they scroll past so quickly I cannot read
>    them, then if I get a kernel panic when the Linux kernel starts, I cannot
>    see what the hypervisor was saying. It turned out to be lack of sata
>    drivers in the kernel (they were modules), but that was guesswork. Im sure
>    the Xen boot messages would tell me what hardware it had picked up.

  xm dmesg

>    6. When I was trying to build a custom kernel (with the sata drivers in),
>    i tried the usual
>    make ARCH=xen menuconfig
>    in the linux source dir, but it gave an error (something about no such
>    target or somesuch).
>    Is this no longer nescesary? it worked OK when I ommitted the ARCH=xen,
>    but I didnt proceed as I wasnt sure if it would compile in the Xen
>    stuff... whats going on???

  Yes Xen is no longer a sub-arch, and has been merged into the normal
  system.  So you can exclude it as you did with safety.

Steve
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