xen & Linux-2.6.17

xen & Linux-2.6.17

[Parissa Heidari]

Hi,
I'm doing my thesis on Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) and interested to use LTT on 
virtual domains. I'm trying xen3.0-testing-src.tgz that comes with Linux 
2.6.16.13. As the latest version of LTT comes with Linux-2.6.17, there is 
some difficulties to apply the Lttng patch on domains' kernel. 

I was wondering if anyone was working on 2.6.17? Could I find xen-unstable 
coming with 2.6.17 soon or I had better to start a backport from Lttng to 
2.6.16.13 ?
Any comment is highly appreciated.

Regards,
Parissa. 

Re: xen & Linux-2.6.17

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 05:25:04PM -0400, Parissa Heidari wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm doing my thesis on Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) and interested to use LTT on 
> virtual domains. I'm trying xen3.0-testing-src.tgz that comes with Linux 
> 2.6.16.13. As the latest version of LTT comes with Linux-2.6.17, there is 
> some difficulties to apply the Lttng patch on domains' kernel. 
> 
> I was wondering if anyone was working on 2.6.17? Could I find xen-unstable 
> coming with 2.6.17 soon or I had better to start a backport from Lttng to 
> 2.6.16.13 ?
> Any comment is highly appreciated.

Fedora Core 5 is currently running a 2.6.17 based Xen forward port. You can
get the source RPMs from:

  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.src.rpm

The forthcoming Fedora Core 6 though is tracking the 2.6.18 tree. You can
sync off the Mercurial repo for this tree here:

  http://hg.et.redhat.com/kernel/linux-2.6-xen-fedora

As a general rule Fedora always tracks the very latest upstream kernels, so
even once Xen itself re-sync to 2.6.18, Fedora will be moving forward again
to the 2.6.19 tree & so on...

Regards,
Dan.
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Re: xen & Linux-2.6.17

[Parissa Heidari]

Hi Daniel,
First, thanks for your help.

It 's a while that I'm trying to achieve 2.6.17 kernel tree for my virtual 
domains under Xen. Unfortunately yet I have no good result.
I'm not so familiar with Fedora core and srpms. If I understand well this file 
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.src.rpm
could give me the kernel tree , then choosing xen-comaptible for Processor 
type and features -> Subarchitecture type , I might have the kernel image 
vmlinuz-2.6.17-Xen0 for my dom0 .

But I 'm confused because normally in my directory linux-2.6.x-Xen0 , there 
were some symbolic link toward sparse directory. How should I manage them? 
Would you please lead me?

And as a general question is it possible to use rpmbuild for other linux 
distributions?
 I applied #rpm -ivv , and I got linux2.6.17.tar.bz + some config and patch 
files in the /usr/src/rpm/SOURCE, then I tried  #rpmbuild -bp  
under Ubuntu but there were some errors.
At last I decided to apply the patches manually using spec file, but it seems 
I'm doing something wrong. It does not seem to be a good solution!

I would really appreciate if anyone lead me to solve it.

Regards,
Parissa.

On Thursday 14 September 2006 18:55, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 05:25:04PM -0400, Parissa Heidari wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm doing my thesis on Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) and interested to use
> > LTT on virtual domains. I'm trying xen3.0-testing-src.tgz that comes with
> > Linux 2.6.16.13. As the latest version of LTT comes with Linux-2.6.17,
> > there is some difficulties to apply the Lttng patch on domains' kernel.
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone was working on 2.6.17? Could I find
> > xen-unstable coming with 2.6.17 soon or I had better to start a backport
> > from Lttng to 2.6.16.13 ?
> > Any comment is highly appreciated.
>
> Fedora Core 5 is currently running a 2.6.17 based Xen forward port. You can
> get the source RPMs from:
>
>  
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/SRPMS/ker
>nel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.src.rpm
>
> The forthcoming Fedora Core 6 though is tracking the 2.6.18 tree. You can
> sync off the Mercurial repo for this tree here:
>
>   http://hg.et.redhat.com/kernel/linux-2.6-xen-fedora
>
> As a general rule Fedora always tracks the very latest upstream kernels, so
> even once Xen itself re-sync to 2.6.18, Fedora will be moving forward again
> to the 2.6.19 tree & so on...
>
> Regards,
> Dan.

Re: xen & Linux-2.6.17

[Parissa Heidari]

Hi Matt,
Thanks for your quick answer.
I need to work on the source code because I have to modify something and apply 
the patch of LTTng on the source code. Besides I 'm using both Ubuntu and 
Debian for my tests.
Do you have any idea about the source code?

Parissa

On Thursday 14 September 2006 18:20, you wrote:
> I know Fedora Core 5 has RPMs of a Xen 2.6.17 kernel.
>
> Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com
> [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Parissa
> Heidari
> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 2:25 PM
> To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
> Subject: [Xen-devel] xen & Linux-2.6.17
>
> Hi,
> I'm doing my thesis on Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) and interested to use
> LTT on virtual domains. I'm trying xen3.0-testing-src.tgz that comes
> with Linux 2.6.16.13. As the latest version of LTT comes with
> Linux-2.6.17, there is some difficulties to apply the Lttng patch on
> domains' kernel.
>
> I was wondering if anyone was working on 2.6.17? Could I find
> xen-unstable coming with 2.6.17 soon or I had better to start a backport
> from Lttng to
> 2.6.16.13 ?
> Any comment is highly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Parissa.
>
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RE: xen & Linux-2.6.17

[Matt Anger (manger)]

A quick search of kernel.org's fedora mirror lead me no where in terms
of sources for the xen 2.6.17 kernel. Have you tried looking through
various distro mirror sites to see if any of them have it?

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Parissa Heidari [mailto:parisa.heidari@polymtl.ca] 
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 3:39 PM
To: Matt Anger (manger)
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] xen & Linux-2.6.17

Hi Matt,
Thanks for your quick answer.
I need to work on the source code because I have to modify something and
apply the patch of LTTng on the source code. Besides I 'm using both
Ubuntu and Debian for my tests.
Do you have any idea about the source code?

Parissa

On Thursday 14 September 2006 18:20, you wrote:
> I know Fedora Core 5 has RPMs of a Xen 2.6.17 kernel.
>
> Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com
> [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Parissa 
> Heidari
> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 2:25 PM
> To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
> Subject: [Xen-devel] xen & Linux-2.6.17
>
> Hi,
> I'm doing my thesis on Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) and interested to use

> LTT on virtual domains. I'm trying xen3.0-testing-src.tgz that comes 
> with Linux 2.6.16.13. As the latest version of LTT comes with 
> Linux-2.6.17, there is some difficulties to apply the Lttng patch on 
> domains' kernel.
>
> I was wondering if anyone was working on 2.6.17? Could I find 
> xen-unstable coming with 2.6.17 soon or I had better to start a 
> backport from Lttng to
> 2.6.16.13 ?
> Any comment is highly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Parissa.
>
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