Re: [Xen-users] compiling custom kernel on 2.0 testing

Michael Best
Mon, 05 Dec 2005 05:39:10 -0000

Andrew D. Ball wrote:
> Those instructions have never worked for me.  I have found a way that
> works though:
>
> cd linux-2.6.12-xen0
> make ARCH=xen menuconfig # or oldconfig if you want to edit .config or
> # reuse one
> make ARCH=xen
> make ARCH=xen modules_install install
>
> Hopefully that will work for you.  I''d like to know a way to use a
> custom dom0 or domU kernel configuration that doesn''t cause the
kernels
> to be built twice (first time from ''make world'' with the
default
> configurations, second time manually with the commands above) or make me

Make world doesn''t build the kernels (in the xen-unstable src), it
simply downloads the kernel source, patches it, configures it and
compiles the xen userland utilities.

> have to modify the default configuration(s) in
>   xen-unstable.hg/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/arch/xen/configs
>
> Good luck.
> Andrew

-Mike