Hello, I have a question about newer kernels than 2.6.12.6 for XEN on AMD64. As far as I have understood the "linux-2.6-xen.hg" contains a recent linux kernel with XEN enhancements. Now my questions are: 1. status Was is the status of the repository? Can it be used for serious project? Or is it better to use 2.6.12.6? 2. compiling I tried to compile the repository, but I failed to create a bzImage. I configured the kernel my way and issued a "# make bzImage", but it said that there is nothing to do. Only "# make all" works and creates some vmlinu* files not suitable to be booted by grub. Am I missing something? Thanks in advance ... greetings Boris _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> 1. status > Was is the status of the repository? > Can it be used for serious project? Or is it better to use 2.6.12.6?Sorry, dont know any details of the official status, but my experience with this kernel is, that devpts is not working, and the bridge dont work when I use it for dom0. Because of the missing devpts I stoped searching for the failed bridge, too.> 2. compiling > I tried to compile the repository, but I failed to create a bzImage. > I configured the kernel my way and issued a "# make bzImage", but it > said that there is nothing to do. > Only "# make all" works and creates some vmlinu* files not suitable to > be booted by grub.After "make menuconfig && make" I had a vmlinuz file in the root of the kernel-src-directory that I can boot. Bastian _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On 1/9/06, Bastian Scholz <nimrodxx@gmx.de> wrote:> > 1. status > > Was is the status of the repository? > > Can it be used for serious project? Or is it better to use 2.6.12.6? > > Sorry, dont know any details of the official status, but my experience > with this kernel is, that devpts is not working, and the bridge dont > work when I use it for dom0. Because of the missing devpts I stoped > searching for the failed bridge, too. > > > 2. compiling > > I tried to compile the repository, but I failed to create a bzImage. > > I configured the kernel my way and issued a "# make bzImage", but it > > said that there is nothing to do. > > Only "# make all" works and creates some vmlinu* files not suitable to > > be booted by grub. > > After "make menuconfig && make" I had a vmlinuz file in the root of the > kernel-src-directory that I can boot.I think you want "make ARCH=xen menuconfig && make ARCH=xen" ?> > Bastian > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
>> After "make menuconfig && make" I had a vmlinuz file in the root of the >> kernel-src-directory that I can boot. > > I think you want "make ARCH=xen menuconfig && make ARCH=xen"No, with the actual hg-tree you must set CONFIG_X86_XEN=y in the .config[1] to enable xen support. make ARCH=xen... dont work anymore. Bastian [1] In menuconfig you find it it Processor type and feature --> Subarchitecture Type --> Xen-compatible _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Bastian Scholz wrote:>>1. status >>Was is the status of the repository? >>Can it be used for serious project? Or is it better to use 2.6.12.6? > > > Sorry, dont know any details of the official status, but my experience > with this kernel is, that devpts is not working, and the bridge dont > work when I use it for dom0. Because of the missing devpts I stoped > searching for the failed bridge, too.It all works fine for me using 2.6.15 as dom0 and domU. To get devpts you need to either hack the Kconfig files or use the same kernel for domU as you''re using for dom0 (The option for direct hardware access enables devpts! I think that''s because it counts as a serial driver?) -- patrick _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hello,>After "make menuconfig && make" I had a vmlinuz file in the root of the >kernel-src-directory that I can boot. >Same for me, but grub says "... unknown executable format". :( Any ideas? Greetings Boris _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:45:00PM +0100, Boris Kröger wrote:> Hello, > > >After "make menuconfig && make" I had a vmlinuz file in the root of the > >kernel-src-directory that I can boot. > > > Same for me, but grub says "... unknown executable format". :( > > Any ideas? >One of my friends had a problem, where xen failed to boot dom0 kernel when it was built with LC_ALL set to "fi_FI@euro". When he set LC_ALL=C and rebuilt, dom0 kernel booted fine.. This was with Debian unstable. -- Pasi Kärkkäinen ^ . . Linux / - \ Choice.of.the .Next.Generation. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users