Re: Xen kernel issue

[Travis Newman <panickedthumb@gmail.com>]

Sorry to keep posting, just wanted to update this on where I am now.

> I've gotten Xen working for dom0, but I haven't gone past that because 
> when using the Xen kernel, there's no support for fat filesystems (which 
> contain a lot of what I need, though I don't use Windows anymore, I 
> don't have the space to backup everything to format to ext3) and no 
> support for sound. I'm using Alsa by the way. I've tried to recompile 
> the kernel in different ways. First off, I tried "make ARCH=xen xconfig" 
> and enabling what I needed, "make ARCH=xen oldconfig" after restoring my 
> .config from my current kernel, and finally, using mkbuildtree to 
> xen-ify my kernel source (2.6.10) and then loading the .config from 
> xconfig. None of these worked, they would keep failing for different 
> reasons. I can be more specific if I need to, I'm just wondering what 
> the "right way" to get the exact same options that are in my kernel now, 
> along with the xen options.
> 
> I'm using Ubuntu Linux (a Debian variant), and though I'm using a stock 
> kernel, I have had experience with compiling my own kernel before.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> Travis

I installed Fedora Core 3, which from what I heard was much easier to 
get things going in. I saw that I had to be running the devel release to 
get the rpms from the yum repository, so I changed my yum.conf, and got 
them installed.
Only problem is, it broke yum, up2date, and system-config-packages 
because of a new version of python. Maybe I had to be running EVERYTHING 
development, I don't know. Anyway, the kernel from the Fedora packages 
doesn't run with Ubuntu AT ALL. I get a kernel panic but it goes away 
before I can read the details. So I'll revise my questions:

Are there prebuilt packages like the ones for Fedora available for 
Debian or any other distributions?

Is there any other way to install the Fedora RPMs than having to upgrade 
a lot of packages to unstable?

When doing things the any-linux way, what's the proper way of getting 
the old .config file to stick with the new config from Xen's setup?

Basically, I really don't care which distro I get it going in, as long 
as vmlinuz-xxx-dom0 has the options I need and it doesn't break the system.

Again, Thanks in advance!

Travis


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