On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 10:10:44AM -0400, Peter Mellon wrote:
> Hello. I'm using Fedora 7 as Dom0 and would like to compile and install Xen
> 3.4. I downloaded the source and did 'make' and 'make install', but I get
> the following error
>
> [root@localhost xen-3.4.0]$ make install
> ....
> select-repository: Searching `.:..' for linux-2.6.18-xen.hg
> select-repository: Ignoring `.'
> Unable to determine path to Linux source tree.
> Falling back to linux-2.6.18-xen Mercurial repository.
> Cloning
http://xenbits.xensource.com/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg to
> linux-2.6.18-xen.hg.
> abort: error: Temporary failure in name resolution
> make[2]: *** [linux-2.6.18-xen.hg/.valid-src] Error 255
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ntrcuser/xen/xen-3.4.0'
> make[1]: *** [linux-2.6-xen-install] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ntrcuser/xen/xen-3.4.0'
> make: *** [install-kernels] Error 1
>
>
> Here is the output of some other commands:
>
> [root@localhost xen-3.4.0]$ uname -r
> 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7
>
> [root@localhost xen-3.4.0]$ hg --version
> Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.3)
>
> Copyright (C) 2005-2009 Matt Mackall <
mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> and others
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
>
> I thought the goal was to patch the existing 2.6.21 kernel, so why is it
> trying to find 2.6.18 kernel? Also, the computer I'm trying to install this
> on doesn't have internet access so I need to download anything I need on
> another computer and copy it over. This is probably why the hg clone command
> didn't work
>
> Thanks for the help
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