On 09/09/2007 Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Jonas, Hey Andi,
> > i would like to give xen a try, but i didn't manage to compile a dom0 > > host kernel yet. > > Do you need to? What is wrong with Debian's xen kernels? I don't think that there's anything wrong with debian's default kernels, but I always use a selfcompiled kernel, and I'dd like to learn howto compile a xen dom0 kernel as well. Additionally it seems like current debian/unstable has no precompiled xen dom0 linux-images, at least for amd64 (x86_64): # apt-cache search linux-image | grep xen # > > that's because i would like to use a recent linux kernel (2.6.20 at > > least), build it the debian way (with make-kpkg), and as well build > > some external modules (nvidia-legacy-96xx, ivtv) with module-assistent > > for it. > > You can't use a kernel.org kernel, as the xen feature is a patch > developed external to the mainline kernel. That's clear, but I could use a kernel.org kernel and patch it with the corresponding xen patch, right? > You can use the normal Debian kernel source and compile like you > would normally, making sure to select the xen patch. Unfortunately, this simply doesn't work. If I run 'make menuconfig' in debians linux-source-2.6.22 sources, I don't get any xen options in the submenu 'processor-type and features'. > > so how do you compile a xen dom0 host-kernel? is it possible with recent > > kernel sources, and where do i find the corresponding xen patches? > > They come with Debian's kernel source. Then maybe they come only for i386? As already written, on my amd64 system, I cannot find any xen options in debians linux-source-2.6.22. greetings, jonas
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