Xen users - Jan 2006 - where do .config defaults come from?

Hi Xen users,

This stuff is great!  Have run 11 domains on a laptop, with room to 
spare.  With lvm snapshots it takes just minutes to have another guest 
domain up and running.

I''m pretty new to kernel building.  As a Fedora user I''ve
learned to
depmod and mkinitrd but I get sunrpc module errors when booting on all 
but the -xen kernel default build.  I''ve figured out what needs to 
change to make a -xen0 kernel that works for me and am working on a 
-xenU that does, too.  I don''t like using the -xen kernel as a domU 
because it ends up with all the peth/veth/vif stuff.

It would be easier if I could have a different set of default .config 
files than those that come with the tarball.  Would somebody be so kind 
as to explain where the default .config files come from, and if it''s 
possible to use a different set of default .config''s?

I''ve grep''ed and find''ed through the distribution and
can''t figure it
out where they (come from|are created), short of magic.

Any help is always appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike Wright

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The default xen kernel configs for linux are stored in the
linux-2.6-xen-sparse/arch/xen/configs/ directory. Depending on the
architecture/build, make will use a different config file.

If you want your own config file to be used, simply name the file
config-<kernel_version>.<extraversion>-xen0 (for privileged domains)
or config-<kernel_version>.<extraversion>-xenU (for nonprivileged
domains) and place them within the dist/install/boot directory of your
xen source directory.

The kernel_version, as of Xen 3.0, is 2.6.12, and extraversion is 6
(you can infer this from the patches stored in the patches directory
of the xen source directory.

HTH,

gino ledesma

On 1/3/06, nhgxfjijdrcd@mailinator.com <nhgxfjijdrcd@mailinator.com>
wrote:
> Hi Xen users,
>
> This stuff is great!  Have run 11 domains on a laptop, with room to
> spare.  With lvm snapshots it takes just minutes to have another guest
> domain up and running.
>
> I''m pretty new to kernel building.  As a Fedora user I''ve
learned to
> depmod and mkinitrd but I get sunrpc module errors when booting on all
> but the -xen kernel default build.  I''ve figured out what needs to
> change to make a -xen0 kernel that works for me and am working on a
> -xenU that does, too.  I don''t like using the -xen kernel as a
domU
> because it ends up with all the peth/veth/vif stuff.
>
> It would be easier if I could have a different set of default .config
> files than those that come with the tarball.  Would somebody be so kind
> as to explain where the default .config files come from, and if
it''s
> possible to use a different set of default .config''s?
>
> I''ve grep''ed and find''ed through the
distribution and can''t figure it
> out where they (come from|are created), short of magic.
>
> Any help is always appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Wright
>
> _______________________________________________
> Xen-users mailing list
> Xen-users@lists.xensource.com
> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
>
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