On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 08:59:41AM +0530, Onkar Mahajan wrote:
> Thank you very much, Pasi , for your help.
> Just a novice question -
>
> when I build xen-4.0.0 (from here
> [1]http://bits.xensource.com/oss-xen/release/4.0.0/xen-4.0.0.tar.gz) , it
> downloads pvops kernel , is there any way I can use
> my own pvops kernel instead of this ?
>
Yes you can.
Please see: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen4.0
-- Pasi
> Regards,
> Onkar
>
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <[2]pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:51:19PM +0530, Onkar Mahajan wrote:
> > I read here [1][3]http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps
> > this :
> >
> > Using Xen/paravirt_ops
> >
> > Building with domU support
> >
> > 1. Get a current kernel. The latest [2][4]kernel.org kernel is
> generally a
> > good choice.
> > 2. Configure as normal; you can start with your current .config
> file
> > 3. If building 32 bit kernel make sure you have CONFIG_X86_PAE
> enabled
> > (which is set by selecting CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G)
> >
> > * non-PAE mode doesn't work in 2.6.25, and has been dropped
> > altogether from 2.6.26 and newer kernel versions.
> >
> > 4. Enable these core options:
> >
> > 1. CONFIG_PARAVIRT_GUEST
> > 2. CONFIG_XEN
> >
> > 5. And Xen pv device support
> >
> > 1. CONFIG_HVC_DRIVER and CONFIG_HVC_XEN
> > 2. CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND
> > 3. CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND
> >
> > 6. And build as usual
> >
> > My question is :
> >
> > I have original kernel of FC12 that has all the configuration
> options as
> > shown above ? Does this kernel can act as a
> > pvops kernel ?
> >
>
> Yes, Fedora's kernel is pvops, since pvops is in upstream [5]kernel.org
> kernels.
> > If I choose to build my own pvops kernel , how do I do it ?
> >
>
> Just grab latest kernel from [6]kernel.org and build with Xen pvops
> options enabled.
>
> -- Pasi
>
> > Regards,
> > Onkar
> >
> > References
> >
> > Visible links
> > 1. [7]http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps
> > 2. [8]http://kernel.org/
>
> > _______________________________________________
> > Xen-devel mailing list
> > [9]Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [10]http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
>
> References
>
> Visible links
> 1. http://bits.xensource.com/oss-xen/release/4.0.0/xen-4.0.0.tar.gz
> 2. mailto:pasik@xxxxxx
> 3. http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps
> 4. http://kernel.org/
> 5. http://kernel.org/
> 6. http://kernel.org/
> 7. http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps
> 8. http://kernel.org/
> 9. mailto:Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 10. http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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