Xen 3.1.2 for Debian?

Xen 3.1.2 for Debian?

[James Harper]

Has anyone put any 3.1.2 packages together for Debian yet? I've been
spoilt by having them for just about every other recent release, and
Debian does things a little differently (eg allows you to have several
versions installed simultaneously and automatically detect which Dom0
runtime stuff to use).

Thanks

James

Re: Xen 3.1.2 for Debian?

[Markus Schuster]

James Harper wrote:
> Has anyone put any 3.1.2 packages together for Debian yet? 

I've set up my own 3.1.2 packages for etch, but only for amd64. I've also
updated the official etch 2.6.18 kernel with the coresponding xen 3.1.2
kernel patch - but for amd64 only, too. 

Regards, 
Markus

RE: Re: Xen 3.1.2 for Debian?

[James Harper]

> 
> James Harper wrote:
> > Has anyone put any 3.1.2 packages together for Debian yet?
> 
> I've set up my own 3.1.2 packages for etch, but only for amd64. I've
also
> updated the official etch 2.6.18 kernel with the coresponding xen
3.1.2
> kernel patch - but for amd64 only, too.
> 

I've since done that too... seems to work okay. I can supply a copy of
the patch if anyone wants to build their own.

James

Re: Xen 3.1.2 for Debian?

[Ralph Passgang]

Hi James,

I made my own packages for 3.1.2, which are quite close to the debian 
pkg-xen version (I am part of that team, but not very active at the 
moment).

There are only some very small differences, espacially I numbered my 
packages in a diffrent style then debian does, because I want to have the 
full xen version in the pkg-name.

My packages are running on two productive machines since one week without 
any problems at all. On one machine Xen 3.0.3 made serious trouble, but 
3.1.2 fixed them, so 3.1.2 seems to be quite stable to me.

My packages are available for the following debian distributions and 
architectures:

i386: etch, lenny, sid
amd64: only etch (because I have no automatic build system for amd64)

Just add these lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://packages.debianbase.de/<distro>/<arch>/xen3.1 ./
deb-src http://packages.debianbase.de/sources/xen3.1 ./

So for amd64 and etch this would be the correct line:
deb http://packages.debianbase.de/etch/amd64/xen3.1 ./

There is still one bug open within my packages (and maybe even in the orig 
pkg-xen packages, haven't checked). The hvmloader stuff isn't found when a 
symlink from /usr/lib/xen to /usr/lib/xen-3.1.2-1 is missing. So set this 
symlink to be on the safe side.

But please be aware, that the 2.6.18-5-xen-amd64/686 kernel from debian is 
build with xen 3.0.x patches (actually taken from fedora), which are 
working with xen 3.1, but you will not be able to use 32bit domUs on 64Bit 
Dom0/Hypervisor. If you need that too, then you need a newer kernel with 
xen 3.1.x patches.

Hope this helps ;)
 -- Ralph

Am Dienstag, 20. November 2007 02:23:03 schrieb James Harper:
> Has anyone put any 3.1.2 packages together for Debian yet? I've been
> spoilt by having them for just about every other recent release, and
> Debian does things a little differently (eg allows you to have several
> versions installed simultaneously and automatically detect which Dom0
> runtime stuff to use).
>
> Thanks
>
> James
>
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Re: Xen 3.1.2 for Debian?

[Otavio Salvador]

Ralph Passgang <ralph@debianbase.de> writes:

> Hi James,
>
> I made my own packages for 3.1.2, which are quite close to the debian 
> pkg-xen version (I am part of that team, but not very active at the 
> moment).

Are you intending to update them now that Debian provides 3.1.2 based packages?

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Re: Xen 3.1.2 for Debian?

[Ralph Passgang]

Am Montag, 26. November 2007 15:41:26 schrieb Otavio Salvador:
> Ralph Passgang <ralph@debianbase.de> writes:
> > Hi James,
> >
> > I made my own packages for 3.1.2, which are quite close to the debian
> > pkg-xen version (I am part of that team, but not very active at the
> > moment).
>
> Are you intending to update them now that Debian provides 3.1.2 based
> packages?

Bastian Blank already uploaded them to the debian archive. They should be 
available in debian unstable/sid now or at least in very near future :)

See: http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xen-3.html
and http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-xen/

--Ralph