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Re: [Xen-users] Compile Question

Fedora 7 includes a 2.6.20 kernel with xen 3.1.0.  I'm going to look
at the source and see what they did.  

Do you think other people would be interested in what I find?

-Dylan

> > Ok, this is probably a really dumb question, but how do I compile xen
> > with a different kernel than the one provided with the source?  
> 
> This is not easy, so it's not a dumb question as such. 
> 
> There was a discussion a few weeks back about moving from 2.6.18 to
> 2.6.18-8, which you should be able to find in the archive on
> www.xensource.com (under community, mailing lists, Xen Users [Archive]
> or something like that). 
> 
> It explains the steps necessary to change the kernel version that Xen
> uses. I doubt that a 2.6.18 -> 2.6.20 is as trivial as 2.6 .18 to ...-8
> is tho', you'll probably have to do more than remove one patch and fix
> one "removed" variable. 
> 
> --
> Mats
> > 
> > I've got the source tarball for xen 3.1.0 and a source tarball for
> > kernel 2.6.20.  I don't see the obvious way to make the xen "make
> > kernels" make invocation build me a kernel and modules for 2.6.20.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > -Dylan

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