Re: [Xen-devel] xen & Linux-2.6.17 - Parissa Heidari - com.xensource.lists.xen-devel

5 messages in com.xensource.lists.xen-develRe: [Xen-devel] xen & Linux-2.6.17

From	Sent On	Attachments
Parissa Heidari	14 Sep 2006 14:24
Parissa Heidari	14 Sep 2006 15:38
Matt Anger (manger)	14 Sep 2006 15:46
Daniel P. Berrange	14 Sep 2006 15:55
Parissa Heidari	29 Sep 2006 14:43

Subject:	Re: [Xen-devel] xen & Linux-2.6.17
From:	Parissa Heidari (pari...@polymtl.ca)
Date:	09/29/2006 02:43:12 PM
List:	com.xensource.lists.xen-devel

Hi Daniel,

First, thanks for your help.

It 's a while that I'm trying to achieve 2.6.17 kernel tree for my virtual domains under Xen. Unfortunately yet I have no good result. I'm not so familiar with Fedora core and srpms. If I understand well this file http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.src.rpm could give me the kernel tree , then choosing xen-comaptible for Processor type and features -> Subarchitecture type , I might have the kernel image vmlinuz-2.6.17-Xen0 for my dom0 .

But I 'm confused because normally in my directory linux-2.6.x-Xen0 , there were some symbolic link toward sparse directory. How should I manage them? Would you please lead me?

And as a general question is it possible to use rpmbuild for other linux distributions? I applied #rpm -ivv , and I got linux2.6.17.tar.bz + some config and patch files in the /usr/src/rpm/SOURCE, then I tried #rpmbuild -bp under Ubuntu but there were some errors. At last I decided to apply the patches manually using spec file, but it seems I'm doing something wrong. It does not seem to be a good solution!

I would really appreciate if anyone lead me to solve it.

Regards, Parissa.

On Thursday 14 September 2006 18:55, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 05:25:04PM -0400, Parissa Heidari wrote:

Hi, I'm doing my thesis on Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) and interested to use LTT on virtual domains. I'm trying xen3.0-testing-src.tgz that comes with Linux 2.6.16.13. As the latest version of LTT comes with Linux-2.6.17, there is some difficulties to apply the Lttng patch on domains' kernel.

I was wondering if anyone was working on 2.6.17? Could I find xen-unstable coming with 2.6.17 soon or I had better to start a backport from Lttng to 2.6.16.13 ? Any comment is highly appreciated.

Fedora Core 5 is currently running a 2.6.17 based Xen forward port. You can get the source RPMs from:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/SRPMS/ker nel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.src.rpm

The forthcoming Fedora Core 6 though is tracking the 2.6.18 tree. You can sync off the Mercurial repo for this tree here:

http://hg.et.redhat.com/kernel/linux-2.6-xen-fedora

As a general rule Fedora always tracks the very latest upstream kernels, so even once Xen itself re-sync to 2.6.18, Fedora will be moving forward again to the 2.6.19 tree & so on...

Regards, Dan.