Hi Vasily, That appears to be the missing magic to get the new kernel module compiled in :)
Thank you very much for your help and have a great weekend. Phil ----- On 3 Jul, 2015, at 12:00, Vasily Averin v...@virtuozzo.com wrote: > Dear Phil, > in our rhel6-based test kernels we adjust config options in config-vz file. > I don't know details of rhel6 build machinery, but this works well for build > openVZ kernels. > > Thank you, > Vasily Averin > > On 03.07.2015 13:30, Phil Daws wrote: >> Hi Vasily, >> >> Yes, will build the whole kernel as I have a dedicated CentOS6 build server >> for >> all my locally maintained packages. >> >> Thanks, Phil >> >> ----- On 3 Jul, 2015, at 10:25, Vasily Averin v...@virtuozzo.com wrote: >> >>> Dear Phil. >>> >>> Are you sure that you want to rebuild whole kernel? >>> >>> If you want to build some 3rd-party module only -- there is much simple way. >>> Just install according vzkenrel and vzkernel-devel packages on your node and >>> use out-of-tree compilation described in >>> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt >>> >>> thank you, >>> Vasily Averin >>> >>> On 03.07.2015 11:12, Phil Daws wrote: >>>> Hello all: >>>> >>>> Request a little help please in compiling up a new OpenVZ kernel (CentOS >>>> 6) with >>>> an additional module enabled. >>>> >>>> I have setup the rpmbuild environment, downloaded the source RPM >>>> https://openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel6/042stab108.5, and installed the >>>> kernel. Then following https://openvz.org/Kernel_build I ran menuconfig >>>> and >>>> enabled the additional module. The next step, according to the wiki, is to >>>> copy the .config to "$TOPDIR/SOURCES directory, but use the corresponding >>>> file >>>> name in the target directory" so if my arch is x86_64 do I copy it to >>>> SOURCES/config-x86_64-generic or the rhel derivative ? Then once that is >>>> done >>>> execute rpmbuild -ba --target=x86_64 vzkernel.spec to generate the kernel >>>> RPM ? >>>> >>>> Many thanks for your help, Phil >>>> >>>> (null) >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Users mailing list >>>> Users@openvz.org >>>> https://lists.openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >> (null) (null) _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openvz.org https://lists.openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users
