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Re: [Xen-users] Building Vanilla source 2.6.31.4 with XEN hypervisor

To: Ahmad Hassan <ahmad.hassan@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Building Vanilla source 2.6.31.4 with XEN hypervisor
From: "Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)" <space.time.universe@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:23:20 +0800
Cc: Fasiha Ashraf <feehapk@xxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Hi,

You cannot use vanilla 2.6.31.4 kernel source for Xen as it only
supports pvops domU. You need to patch vanilla 2.6.31.4 kernel source
for dom0 functionality.

Alternatively, get the pvops dom0 kernel 2.6.31.4 from Jeremy's git tree.

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On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Ahmad Hassan <ahmad.hassan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Pasi,
>
> I am still confused how to proceed with the XEN installation. The reason is,
> If I go to www.xen.org.downloads then It shows that XEN comes with
> linux-2.6.18. I am afraid whether it is possible to build xen from source
> along with customized vanilla kernel.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 04:39:17PM +0530, Fasiha Ashraf wrote:
>> >   Which platform are you using? Fedora or debian? which version? Below
>> > are some
>> >   basic steps of building it with pv os kernel in a fedora11 platform:-
>> >
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> >
>> >   Build PV Ops Kernel
>> >
>> >    1. cd /usr/src/kernels
>> >    2. git clone
>> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git
>> >       linux-2.6-xen
>> >    3. cd linux-2.6-xen
>> >    4. git checkout origin/xen-tip/master -b xen-tip/master
>>
>>
>> You should use 'xen/master' instead of 'xen-tip/master'.
>>
>> 'xen-tip/master' is old and deprecated.
>>
>> All the new development is happening on 'xen/master', and that's what
>> people should test/use.
>>
>> >   Create a Grub Entry:
>> >
>> >   title Xen 3.4 / Fedora kernel 2.6.30-rc6-tip
>> >   kernel /boot/xen-3.4.gz
>> >   module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-rc6-tip
>> > root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup01/vg_fedora11 ro
>> >   module /boot/initrd-2.6.30-rc6-tip.img
>> >
>>
>> 'xen/master' branch pv_ops dom0 kernel is currently at Linux 2.6.31.4.
>>
>> -- Pasi
>>
>
>
>
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