Comments on: Setup Xen 3.4.1-rc3 Dom0 with 2.6.30-rc(X)-tip pvops enabled kernel on top Ubuntu Intrepid Server (64 bit)

By: dbaxps

dbaxps — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:36:58 +0000

Last night i’ve cloned and built Xen 3.5 Unstable on Ubuntu 9.04 Server with no problems. It’s just a matter of preference.

By: mija

mija — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:47:32 +0000

Thx. I did boot the new kernel and recompile XEN there because of missing support for PCI_PASTHROUGH. Now it did compile without complaining…

One small detail. In my /boot is no xen-3.5.gz
so I changed the grub list to kernel /boot/xen-3.4.gz

By: dbaxps

dbaxps — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:25:32 +0000

>I can’t find how to enable the PCI_PASSTHROUGH in the >kernel, ist this not supportetd yet?
I am not sure pvops kernel supports PCI_PASSTHROUGH.
Please , post your question to xen-devel mailing list.
>Shoudn’t I complie and boot the new kernel before
> compiling the xen?

You can configure pvops kernel without Xen Dom0 Support
and load as vanilla kernel. As far as you enable Xen Dom0
Support it’s supposed to be loaded after xen-3.4.gz as a module.

By: mija

mija — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:13:44 +0000

At first, thanks for this nice guide. I’m now trying to use it but got some problems.

I can’t find how to enable the PCI_PASSTHROUGH in the kernel, ist this not supportetd yet?

Shoudn’t I complie and boot the new kernel before compiling the xen?

thx a lot

By: dbaxps

dbaxps — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:26:49 +0000

I need e-mail to send you snapshots.
Editing .config doesn’t seem a good option.

By: Felipe Alfaro Solana

Felipe Alfaro Solana — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:00:04 +0000

A “make allyesconfig” seems to do it.

By: Felipe Alfaro Solana

Felipe Alfaro Solana — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:57:18 +0000

I feel like an idiot, but doing a make menuconfig does not seem to allow me to enable paravirtualized support. It’s simply disabled (no option to toggle it to Y/N). Any ideas?

It’s nice to see how XenSource destroyed Xen in a couple of years such as no stable dom0 support exists now (like two years ago). I feel like I went back in time

By: dbaxps

dbaxps — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:28:52 +0000

I have updated post for the most recent 2.6.30-rc6-tip
pvops kernel and Xen 3.4.1-rc3 . Screen shots had been made right before 2.6.30 merge window for kernel 2.6.29-tip. So, they are
not up to date.

By: Gele

Gele — Sun, 31 May 2009 21:51:38 +0000

Thank you! It`s o.k now. Actually compilation worked even with the error from my previous post. I`ve switched to the most recent branch (had problems with usb, amd-powerNow!,xend, and single CPU config.). Now i`m waiting the rc6 to compile.

By: dbaxps

dbaxps — Sat, 30 May 2009 16:27:01 +0000

Please, read :-
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Update on 04/23/2009
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Checkout master branch:-
# git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git linux-2.6-xen
# cd linux-2.6-xen
# git checkout origin/xen-tip/master -b xen-tip/master
Checkout the most recent branch:-
# git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git linux-2.6-xen
# cd linux-2.6-xen
# git checkout origin/xen-tip/next -b xen-tip/next