RE: Windows SMP

["Venefax" <venefax@gmail.com>]

Dear Steve
I went as far as "make xen". The question is now what do I do to use this new, patched hypervisor, I mean, how do I put in production? A simple reboot? Please advise.
Federico

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Ofsthun [mailto:sofsthun@virtualiron.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:20 PM
To: Venefax
Cc: 'Keir Fraser'; 'Andrew Lyon'; 'James Harper'; 'Dirk Utterback'; xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Windows SMP

Venefax wrote:
> Dear Gentlemen
> One silly question, maybe, how do I apply the patch supplied in SLES SP2? I have not compiled anything from sources.
> Federico

I believe the proper sequence is:

download the SLES10 SDK iso from you Novell support account:

SLE-10-SP2-SDK-DVD-x86_64-GM-DVD1.iso

Add this ISO as a yast installation source.

install the xen-3.2.0_16718_14-0.4.src.rpm rpm via yast or:

# rpm -i xen-3.2.0_16718_14-0.4.src.rpm

Note that this is the .src.rpm not the binary rpm.

Prep the source tree using:

# rpmbuild -bc /usr/src/packages/SPECS/xen.spec

This should build, patch and compile the package.  If it fails due to dependencies, add the missing RPMs using yast.

Once it succeeds, apply the attached patch (I attached the wrong one previously):

# cd /usr/src/packages/BUILD/xen-3.2-testing
# patch -p0 < ~/xen-vioapic-callback-routing.patch

Build the hypervisor:

# cd /usr/src/packages/BUILD/xen-3.2-testing
# make xen

try out the resulting xen/xen.gz manually.

Steve