Linux Virtualization - Jul 2007 - How to enable XEN in 2.6.23-rcS kernel?

"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> writes:
> On 31/07/07, 2004 ruffneck <ruffneck2004@yandex.ru> wrote:
> > Hello to everybody!
> >
> > I did read, that Lguest and Xen was merged to upstream and must be in
2.6.23-rc1 kernel, but I can't see it in "make menuconfig". So,
what's the deal? Can anybody explain me, how to enable XEN support? Thanks.
> 
> Go to "Processor type and features" - then enable
"Paravirtualization
> support (EXPERIMENTAL)", you'll get a new option called
"Enable
> support for Xen hypervisor".
Perhaps it would be clearer to make CONFIG_PARAVIRT implicit.
As in Xen/vmi/lguest being one level higher and selecting paravirt 
implicitely. Unless someone has a good reason against that i'll
do that.

-Andi

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
> "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > [...]
> > Go to "Processor type and features" - then enable
"Paravirtualization
> > support (EXPERIMENTAL)", you'll get a new option called
"Enable
> > support for Xen hypervisor".
> 
> Perhaps it would be clearer to make CONFIG_PARAVIRT implicit.
> As in Xen/vmi/lguest being one level higher and selecting paravirt 
> implicitely. Unless someone has a good reason against that i'll
> do that.
Sounds good, just ensure you carry PARAVIRT's dependencies to those who
"select" it too, somehow, otherwise invalid .config's could
result.


Satyam