From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vincent Hanquez Subject: Re: xen client installation question Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:26:15 +0100 Message-ID: <49E715D7.1060103@eu.citrix.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Jun Koi Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , Jean Guyader List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Jun Koi wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Jean Guyader wrote: > > > And could you explain why we have to use buildroot, and what is the > benefit of using busybox+uclibc? > as Jean was saying, this is mostly related to the size of the output. and also to be in a control environment in dom0, so we don't depend of different udev scripts or something like that. also, using a proper build system, make the build system consistent across all users, and prevent to have random problems because use of but we support only . Note that you should be able to compile most of the trees (kernel, toolstack, ...) by yourself on any distribution, if you install everything that's necessary. but it won't be as easy and guaranteed to work as inside of our build. -- Vincent