Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Panic on cpu0

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 09:00:56AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 07:24 +0000, ZhouPeng wrote:
> > Which linux distro do you use to build xen?
> 
> I use Debian. Mainly Lenny for development work but also some Squeeze
> and Sid.
> 
> > We succeed to build on fc8(32 and 64 bits), Cent OS(32 and 64 bits),
> > 32 bit ubuntu(it's boring to find and install many packages by
> > manual).
> 
> Ubuntu has a huge number of packages available via APT (using apt-get,
> aptitude, synaptic, PackageKit or whatever tool is preferred/recommended
> under Ubuntu these days). I'd be surprised if you needed to find and
> install _many_ packages manually. Under Debian you don't, AFAIR, need
> anything which isn't packaged and available via APT in the main Debian
> repositories to build Xen -- I'd be surprised if Ubuntu wasn't in
> broadly the same position (since it inherits large parts of Debian's
> package pool).
> 
> > We tried on fc9~fc12 but failed and we don't know the exact reason. So
> > we have been using fc8.
> 
> I'm sure plenty of people on the list use Fedora and they are certainly
> using things newer than fc8. For example there is an FC13 howto at
> http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/Fedora13Xen4Tutorial
> 

Fedora 14 works aswell. I just installed F14 testbox yesterday.
F14 also contains xen-4.0.1-6 rpms out-of-the-box. 

-- Pasi


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