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

["Henning Sprang" <henning_sprang@xxxxxxx>]

HI George,
I'll answer some of your questions, some must be takenby others.
(maybe it would be helpful to split so many questions into multiple
mails).

On 6/1/06, George Styles <ripnetuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Ive been using Xen2 for ages, and it great, but ive decided to go to Xen 3.
>
> Ive got it working, but I want to ask a couple of questions about it.
>
> 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.
This is the new policy.

> [...]
> 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.
did you try "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).
> [...]
You'll find info on that int the README file. Please come back with
questions after reading this.


hth,
Henning

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