Xen users - Oct 2011 - 2 Questions about Xen installation and Xen source

Hi all,

1, I am a freshman to Xen technology, please help me install it. :)

I am trying to install a Xen dm0 in locally machine, but I am confused about
some steps to install and xen itself. Could you try to give some answers?

I downloaded xen-4.1.1 package, and extract all files. I found some kernel
src files located in xen-4.1.1/xen:

# ll
drwxr-xr-x 4 zruan0 users  4096 2011-06-15 00:03 arch
drwxr-xr-x 5 zruan0 users  4096 2011-06-15 00:03 common
-rw-r--r-- 1 zruan0 users 19185 2011-06-15 00:03 COPYING
drwxr-xr-x 2 zruan0 users  4096 2011-06-15 00:03 crypto
drwxr-xr-x 8 zruan0 users  4096 2011-06-15 00:03 drivers
drwxr-xr-x 9 zruan0 users  4096 2011-06-15 00:03 include
-rw-r--r-- 1 zruan0 users  5529 2011-06-15 00:03 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 zruan0 users  3498 2011-06-15 00:03 Rules.mk
drwxr-xr-x 3 zruan0 users  4096 2011-06-15 00:03 tools
drwxr-xr-x 4 zruan0 users  4096 2011-06-15 00:03 xsm

Are these files going to be used to add or replace corresponding files in
kernel source? If so, then xen-4.1.1 package should be bond to a suitable
kernel version to avoid build failures. How I can find the suitable kernel
version to this package? I also check
http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenDom0Kernels for details, but still full of
confusion in my mind.

2, I want to patch a suitable kernel with xen-4.1.1 patches to better
understand xen itself. Should I achieve this by following steps:

1> download suitable kernel (right version)
2> download xen patches or generate new patches from xen-4.1.1?
3> patch kernel with xen patches.


Really looking forward to you guys answers :)


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Thanks,
-Royo (Zhengwang)


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Zhengwang Ruan (Royo) wrote:
>1, I am a freshman to Xen technology, please help me install it. :)
>
>I am trying to install a Xen dm0 in locally machine, but I am 
>confused about some steps to install and xen itself. Could you try 
>to give some answers?
>
>I downloaded xen-4.1.1 package, and extract all files. I found some 
>kernel src files located in xen-4.1.1/xen:
I can''t help with the question as asked, but I would suggest that 
while getting started you would be better using packaged software 
until you''ve got your head round things. Most distros support Xen out 
of the box now, so you should be able to be up and running fairly 
quickly.

Once you''ve got things going, and know how to drive it, then you can 
start building stuff from source knowing that (if you do it right) 
you have a working config to fall back on AND you know what a working 
system looks like.

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Hi Simon,

Thank you very much for your nice advices, I will have a try.

Brs,
Royo


At 2011-10-13 14:52, Simon Hobson wrote:
> Zhengwang Ruan (Royo) wrote:
>
>> 1, I am a freshman to Xen technology, please help me install it. :)
>>
>> I am trying to install a Xen dm0 in locally machine, but I am 
>> confused about some steps to install and xen itself. Could you try to 
>> give some answers?
>>
>> I downloaded xen-4.1.1 package, and extract all files. I found some 
>> kernel src files located in xen-4.1.1/xen:
>
> I can''t help with the question as asked, but I would suggest that 
> while getting started you would be better using packaged software 
> until you''ve got your head round things. Most distros support Xen
out
> of the box now, so you should be able to be up and running fairly 
> quickly.
>
> Once you''ve got things going, and know how to drive it, then you
can
> start building stuff from source knowing that (if you do it right) you 
> have a working config to fall back on AND you know what a working 
> system looks like.
>
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