Hello Xen Users! I wanted to ask you something about custom xen kernel-creation and would be grateful for your answers. As I like to use current vanilla releases of the linux kernel and Xen officially uses the 2.6.16 series, but there are some more recent distirbution-kernels with Xen-support around (e.g. Debian, Fedora 7...) I was wondering whether integrating Xen in a newer kernel could be very difficult. Yet I found almost nothing in Xen Docs about that topic, few around around the web (missed something like a "Xen Kernel Patching HOWTO") and had no success trying it on my own. So, is there an ''easy'' way of creating a current, customized, xen-dom0 linux-kernel - without completely rewriting the official xen kernel patches (which seem not to work with newer versions)? Regards, Joey F. -- "Feel free" - 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat ... Jetzt GMX TopMail testen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Jürgen Franz wrote:> Hello Xen Users! > > I wanted to ask you something about custom xen kernel-creation and would be grateful for your answers. As I like to use current vanilla releases of the linux kernel and Xen officially uses the 2.6.16 series, but there are some more recent distirbution-kernels with Xen-support around (e.g. Debian, Fedora 7...) I was wondering whether integrating Xen in a newer kernel could be very difficult. > > Yet I found almost nothing in Xen Docs about that topic, few around around the web (missed something like a "Xen Kernel Patching HOWTO") and had no success trying it on my own. So, is there an ''easy'' way of creating a current, customized, xen-dom0 linux-kernel - without completely rewriting the official xen kernel patches (which seem not to work with newer versions)? >It''s non-trivial: the Xen patches need to be tuned for specific kernels and specific versions of Xen, although this is becoming more main-stream all the time. Take a look at the source and patches for the Xen packages under Debian or RedHat or even www.xensource.com or whatever to see how the packagers did it. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users