From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Travis Newman Subject: Re: Xen kernel issue Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 20:38:16 -0500 Message-ID: <41FD8C08.6070800@gmail.com> References: <41FD46D6.50203@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <41FD46D6.50203@gmail.com> Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl