Paul Larson
2006-Feb-21 19:22 UTC
[Xen-devel] [PATCH][XM-TEST] Add support for pulling initrd images from a repo
XM-Test takes a really long time to build the initrd it uses for testing. This patch to the Makefile allows you to specify INITRD="url" when running make existing to make it download a prebuilt copy of the initrd from a repository. This also updates the README to document the change. Signed-off-by: Paul Larson <pl@us.ibm.com> Thanks, Paul Larson _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
Dan Smith
2006-Feb-21 19:34 UTC
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][XM-TEST] Add support for pulling initrd images from a repo
PL> This patch to the Makefile allows you to specify INITRD="url" when PL> running make existing to make it download a prebuilt copy of the PL> initrd from a repository. Yay. Really. Yay. It was previously discussed at the summit that xensource might be able to host an initrd for the community. Now that this functionality is in xm-test, perhaps a URL could be posted to be used as a default for the INITRD variable? -- Dan Smith IBM Linux Technology Center Open Hypervisor Team email: danms@us.ibm.com _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
Ewan Mellor
2006-Feb-22 15:03 UTC
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][XM-TEST] Add support for pulling initrd images from a repo
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 01:22:14PM -0600, Paul Larson wrote:> XM-Test takes a really long time to build the initrd it uses for > testing. This patch to the Makefile allows you to specify INITRD="url" > when running make existing to make it download a prebuilt copy of the > initrd from a repository. This also updates the README to document the > change. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Larson <pl@us.ibm.com> > > Thanks, > Paul LarsonApplied, thanks. Ewan. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
Ewan Mellor
2006-Feb-22 15:06 UTC
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][XM-TEST] Add support for pulling initrd images from a repo
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:34:29AM -0800, Dan Smith wrote:> > PL> This patch to the Makefile allows you to specify INITRD="url" when > PL> running make existing to make it download a prebuilt copy of the > PL> initrd from a repository. > > Yay. Really. Yay. > > It was previously discussed at the summit that xensource might be able > to host an initrd for the community. Now that this functionality is > in xm-test, perhaps a URL could be posted to be used as a default for > the INITRD variable?Yes, we will do this. Dan, if you (or someone else at IBM) could provide a ''known good'' initrd, then we''ll host that, and I''ll synchronise with you so that the patch to refer to that initrd goes in only once the initrd is in place. They will be placed into http://xm-test.xensource.com/ramdisks/ Please make sure that xm-test will only fetch the initrd if it can''t find one locally, and will resume interrupted downloads rather than start again from scratch. This will hopefully avoid our machines melting under the load! Thanks, Ewan. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
Paul Larson
2006-Mar-09 18:29 UTC
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][XM-TEST] Add support for pulling initrd images from a repo
Ewan Mellor wrote:>On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:34:29AM -0800, Dan Smith wrote: > > > >>PL> This patch to the Makefile allows you to specify INITRD="url" when >>PL> running make existing to make it download a prebuilt copy of the >>PL> initrd from a repository. >> >>Yay. Really. Yay. >> >>It was previously discussed at the summit that xensource might be able >>to host an initrd for the community. Now that this functionality is >>in xm-test, perhaps a URL could be posted to be used as a default for >>the INITRD variable? >> >> > >Yes, we will do this. Dan, if you (or someone else at IBM) could provide a >''known good'' initrd, then we''ll host that, and I''ll synchronise with you so >that the patch to refer to that initrd goes in only once the initrd is in >place. > >They will be placed into > >http://xm-test.xensource.com/ramdisks/ > >Please make sure that xm-test will only fetch the initrd if it can''t find one >locally, and will resume interrupted downloads rather than start again from >scratch. This will hopefully avoid our machines melting under the load! > >Hi Ewan, I''m still not seeing a xm-test.xensource.com. Did this ever get created? Thanks, Paul Larson _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel