From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] virtbench now has xen support Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 10:33:34 +0100 Message-ID: <4652B8EE.6070406@goop.org> References: <1179196706.27304.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> <464A0F01.5030900@us.ibm.com> <1179489064.17608.47.camel@localhost.localdomain> <3C31E727-8C2D-4DBB-A16A-F40ADC0AE62A@cern.ch> <1179728188.20705.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1179791128.20705.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> <6C46B0C9-2C62-431F-89C9-21A492E19DAD@cern.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <6C46B0C9-2C62-431F-89C9-21A492E19DAD@cern.ch> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Jan Michael Cc: Anthony Liguori , Rusty Russell , Xen Mailing List List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Jan Michael wrote: > I can say that we are using a kernel builf from the attached kernel > config and a special initrd image for our domUs. > The initrd image contains the modules xenblk.ko and xennet.ko. So > netfront and blkfront are not compiled into the kernel. Modular is OK if they're in the initrd you're using. > Our linux gurus made the kernel and the initrd image. I think I have > to integrate those modules into the initrd image you are using and > have to load them. But at this point I have no knowledge how to do > this... It's distro-dependent, but mkinitrd works for RH-type systems. Something like "mkinitrd --with=xenblk --with=xennet -v my-initrd.img ". J