Fedora xen - May 2009 - How to build Xen with my own Linux sources?

I asked about this on the xen-devel list a few days ago, but no one
responded.  I just asked a second time, but it has been my experience
that the other xen-devel subscribers just ignore pleas for help.

I''m an experienced developer, and I''ve tried searching the
list
archives as well as Google.  I''ve done my best to ask intelligent
questions - but still I am *completely* stymied.

What I want to do is to build the xen and linux kernels without having
the xen build download the linux source tarball from kernel.org.

I have used git to get the tip/master branch of Linux - that''s the
version of Linux that is in development from the Xen folks.  I can
build a working kernel from it if I only build linux itself, without
trying to also build xen.

What I want to do is to get xen to build, but when it wants to build
the Dom0 and DomU kernels, I want it to use my tip/master branch of
the Linux sources that I retrieved with git.

I have seen documentation that says I should be able to do this by
rolling a .tar.bz2 of the kernel source, and then setting the
environment variable XEN_LINUX_SOURCE=tarball, but it simply does not
work - the kernel tarball is still downloaded with wget.

I am incredibly frustrated.

I''m grateful for any help you can give me.

Mike
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Michael David Crawford
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On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 17:45 -0700, Michael Crawford
wrote:
> What I want to do is to get xen to build, but when it wants to build
> the Dom0 and DomU kernels, I want it to use my tip/master branch of
> the Linux sources that I retrieved with git.
I''m of little help, but have you looked for clues in the Fedora spec
files?

There are at least a couple folks on this list wading in similar waters
to you. I think they are using the prebuilt Fedora Xen RPMs though.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue169#Success_with_Experimental_Fedora_10_pv_ops_dom0
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue173#Dom0_Kernel_Not_Before_2.6.31