Xen devel - Dec 2005 - Guide to building linux-2.6-merge.hg

Hi there,

Is there a guide or little howto building (and installing) the
linux-2.6-merge.hg repository? I successfully build the vmlinuz image,
do I need to build a XenU kernel too?

I''m interested in learning about and following the latest developments
of Xen. It''s not for production usage. Whether or not things will work
isn''t very important. But it would be nice if I could in the end add a
"hello world" and watch it being displayed, if you know what I mean
(I''m
going to play and do silly things with the code).

I''m most likely going to start reading the install.sh of the other
repositories. But I was wondering if there''s a guide available which
would make it possible for me to skip that step ... ;-)

If I''m using the wrong repository, it would be nice if somebody could
point me to the correct one.

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* Philip Van Hoof (spam@pvanhoof.be) wrote:
> Is there a guide or little howto building (and installing) the
> linux-2.6-merge.hg repository? I successfully build the vmlinuz image,
> do I need to build a XenU kernel too?
Depends on your goals.  Regardless you''ll need to build xen from
xen-unstable.  Build a xenU if you want to run a guest (in addition to
dom0).
> I''m interested in learning about and following the latest
developments
> of Xen. It''s not for production usage. Whether or not things will
work
> isn''t very important. But it would be nice if I could in the end
add a
> "hello world" and watch it being displayed, if you know what I
mean (I''m
> going to play and do silly things with the code).
The -merge tree is in enough flux that you may prefer xen-unstable for
something that boots and runs well enough for your "hello world"
example.
> I''m most likely going to start reading the install.sh of the other
> repositories. But I was wondering if there''s a guide available
which
> would make it possible for me to skip that step ... ;-)
Sorry, the linux-2.6-merge tree is just linux/xenlinux, no
xen/tools/etc.
> If I''m using the wrong repository, it would be nice if somebody
could
> point me to the correct one.
The xen-unstable.hg repo might be the best one for you.

thanks,
-chris

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