Hi, I''ve been considering running Xen on my laptop (Turion X2) for quite some time but due to irq/smp issues, I haven''t really found a stable kernel (most kernels end up in random freezes). However, I''ve been using 2.6.20 for the past few days and it looks like it fixed it. So my next step if compiling in Xen support to start working with Xen. Any ideas on how to proceed? Thank you. -- Mathew Brown mathewbrown@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> -----Original Message----- > From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com > [mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of > Mathew Brown > Sent: 02 March 2007 11:24 > To: xen-users@lists.xensource.com > Subject: [Xen-users] Xen and Kernel 2.6.20 > > Hi, > I''ve been considering running Xen on my laptop (Turion X2) for quite > some time but due to irq/smp issues, I haven''t really found a stable > kernel (most kernels end up in random freezes). However, I''ve been > using 2.6.20 for the past few days and it looks like it > fixed it. So > my next step if compiling in Xen support to start working with Xen. > Any ideas on how to proceed? Thank you.I''m writing this based on what I''ve figured out from reading the makefile and previous posts on this forum, rather than from actually trying it myself: You can PROBABLY use the existing 2.6.16 or 2.6.18 patches (2.6.18 is closer, but that''s the patches for Xen Unstable - a bit more of a challenge is to grab xen-unstable when it''s not too unstable!) So, choose either Xen-3.0.4-1 sources or Xen-unstable sources from the XenSource web-site (or use mercurial (hg) to fetch sources from XenSource mercurial archive). Unpack the sources onto your machine. You need to set LINUX_VER=2.6.20 in .../buildconfigs/mk.linux.2.6-xen Do "make world && make install". If all works well, you then need to build a initrd and put the boot-config into your grub.conf - there should be plenty of examples on how to do that. If you''re really lucky, that will work straight away. If not, then you have choices to make: 1. Wait for Xen to catch up to 2.6.20 (or become part of the kernel distro) 2. Try to figure out what''s not working and how to fix it. 3. Hope that someone else can solve your problems... 4. Give up on Xen and do something else... -- Mats> -- > Mathew Brown > mathewbrown@fastmail.fm > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - Email service worth paying for. Try > it for free > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users > > >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
I''d suggest trying 2.6.19.5 first. I''ve actually gotten xen working (as far as I can tell) perfectly with that, using the vanilla kernel with a single patch pulled from the fedora 7 kernel-xen source RPM. You could also try the fedora 7 RPM itself, but that might be difficult depending on what distro you''re using and so on. I''m using xen stable (3.0.4.1). You may also need to update buildconfigs/mk.linux-2.6-xen to use the right kernel version, as well as touching a few other files here and there (I seem to recall it gave me a hassle about linux-*/include/linux/autoconf.h existing or it would delete my just patched kernel tree and replace it with a bunch of non-working things) If 2.6.19.5 doesn''t fix your problem, you could also try applying that patch to 2.6.20, but I think some relevant things may have changed between 2.6.19and 2.6.20 that might make it difficult. I haven''t tried to test that, figuring I could wait to see if anyone else gets it working. :) On 3/2/07, Mathew Brown <mathewbrown@fastmail.fm> wrote:> > Hi, > I''ve been considering running Xen on my laptop (Turion X2) for quite > some time but due to irq/smp issues, I haven''t really found a stable > kernel (most kernels end up in random freezes). However, I''ve been > using 2.6.20 for the past few days and it looks like it fixed it. So > my next step if compiling in Xen support to start working with Xen. > Any ideas on how to proceed? Thank you. > -- > Mathew Brown > mathewbrown@fastmail.fm > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >-- Puer Misellus Triste _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> I''ve been considering running Xen on my laptop (Turion X2) for quite > some time but due to irq/smp issues, I haven''t really found a stable > kernel (most kernels end up in random freezes). However, I''ve been > using 2.6.20 for the past few days and it looks like it fixed it.So> my next step if compiling in Xen support to start working with Xen. > Any ideas on how to proceed? Thank you.You proceed with the Xen source distributions. Right now the community is scrambling to figure out how to get merges done properly. I don''t think you want to go there. C// _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users