From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael David Crawford Subject: Re: 3.4.0 wants to download Linux despite its presence Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 01:52:09 -0700 Message-ID: <4A1667B9.7090008@prgmr.com> References: <4A13FB8E.4060800@prgmr.com> <18964.6737.32660.65884@mariner.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <18964.6737.32660.65884@mariner.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Ian Jackson Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Ian Jackson wrote: > Michael David Crawford writes ("[Xen-devel] 3.4.0 wants to download Linux despite its presence"): >> However, no matter what I try, the build hits the Mercurial server to >> download the Linux kernel sources. I have tried a number of things, but >> I am completely unable to prevent the download. > > The build system is rather unfortunate. You can completely prevent > the Xen build from building a kernel by setting XKERNELS='' > You'll have to build the kernel yourself then of course. I'm afraid that didn't work - it still downloaded from Mercurial, and is building it now. I'm just going to let it build, but use a kernel that I previously built. Jeremy's suggestion to "make fetch-dependencies" is I think a good one. I've tried "make xen" and "make tools", rather than "make world", but the impression I have is that they leave the build incomplete somehow. I was never able to get a DomU to load and would get all sorts of arcane messages. I promise to keep trying though - I really *want* Xen to work. I don't think it's so bad to automatically fetch all the dependencies other that Linux. One reason I wanted to have my own Linux kernel was so I could use a RAID driver that I backported to 2.6.18 from the current release. I would imagine many users would have specific requirements for their Linux kernel that the default Xen Linux cannot satisfy. Mike -- Michael David Crawford mdc@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http://prgmr.com/xen