Re: [Xen-devel] Xen x devfs - I RATTAN - com.xensource.lists.xen-devel

9 messages in com.xensource.lists.xen-develRe: [Xen-devel] Xen x devfs

From	Sent On	Attachments
Sadi Giorgi Pezzi Gitz - Projeto Ourgrid	09 Mar 2004 10:56
Ian Pratt	09 Mar 2004 14:02
I RATTAN	09 Mar 2004 17:48
Ian Pratt	10 Mar 2004 01:49
I RATTAN	11 Mar 2004 17:32
Ian Pratt	11 Mar 2004 17:51
I RATTAN	12 Mar 2004 08:05
Ian Pratt	12 Mar 2004 08:12
I RATTAN	12 Mar 2004 11:31

Subject:	Re: [Xen-devel] Xen x devfs
From:	I RATTAN (rat...@cps.cmich.edu)
Date:	03/11/2004 05:32:20 PM
List:	com.xensource.lists.xen-devel

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Ian Pratt wrote:

I have tried to compile under Mandrake-9.1. Make oldconfig discards most of the Mandrake options (I have had no success with make menuconfig also). I do not have a compatible NIC, so cannot comment on that. How can one preserve the working config settings of Mandrake with a view of xenolinux compilation?

I expect the options that make oldconfig discarded were all for various hardware drivers -- in Xen 1.2, hardware drivers go in Xen, not xenolinux, so this is correct.

Were there any non-hardware related options that were being rejected that you needed?

I think that your statment is correct.

For a change I tried it under VMWare-4 work station. The boot process starts, NIC (pcnet32) is detected bu xenollinux hangs during boot. I vaguely recall that VMWare does not allow certain part of memory to be allocated for OS (but misplaced the info). I can post the messges to hang point if someone is interested.

That's very odd. Lots of people usedXen/Xenolinux under VMWare just fine. Does VMWare boot the XenDemoCD OK? If so, I suspect

I only tried booting from xen-1.2 CD, so, available memory might be the factor here.

I haven't heard success reports or otherwise with Mandrake [can anyone else on the list comment?], but there's no reason why it can't be made to work -- we'll be happy to help you do so.

Looks like devfs is the culprit here, boot process fails with complaint about root= message (even though /dev/hda5 is specified). Probably time to try redhat..

-ishwar