Re: [Xen-users] Problems building a xen0 kernel on Suse 9.3 Pro

[Fernando Maior <fernando.souto.maior@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/22/05, Fernando Maior <fernando.souto.maior@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 5/21/05, James Bulpin <James.Bulpin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Jeff,
> >
> > Please don't take this the wrong way, I don't mean to insult your
> > intelligence - are you sure you're building a xen kernel tree rather than
> > the native (ARCH=xen will not work on the latter). Presumably this is the
> > SuSE source RPM rather than one of our tarball or BK distributions? Could
> > be an issue with the location that the RPM installs the source to.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > James
> > (will be offline from now until tomorrow)
> >
> > On Fri, May 20, 2005 11:03 pm, Jeffrey Buell said:
> > > I installed Suse 9.3 Pro along with all the kernel tools and sources.  I
> > > was
> > > easily able to build a new regular kernel, but not a xen0 kernel.  With
> > > ARCH=xen and using the supplied config file, "make" almost immediately
> > > runs
> > > into problems creating links to various asm directories in the
> > > kernel/build
> > > dir.  I fixed this by copying all of /usr/src/linux into kernel/build.
> > > Everything then compiled but I got 2 undefined references:  teardown_irq
> > > in
> > > ctrl_if_suspend, and kmap_flush_unused in balloon_process.  Presumably
> > > there
> > > is no bug since a working xen0 kernel was supplied in the distro.  What do
> > > people do differently when building a xen0 kernel vs. a regular kernel?
> > >
> > > Jeff
> > >
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> 
> Jeffrey,
> 
> I did not build Xen on 9.3, instead I used 9.2, basically because
> I live in a country where there is not access even to 9.2 disks,
> and I downloaded the ISO images and wrote the CD myself,
> what I cannot do with 9.3 yet - there is no ISO images from
> Novell SUSE yet :(
> 
> Still, it should not be that different. I just downloaded Xen source
> from Xen site, applied all needed and dependencies packages -
> for compilation and devel - and, the most important, grab the
> linux-2.6.10 from kernel.org and put the file into the directory
> created by the untargzip of the Xen source.
> 
> Then I read the :
> 
> # make xen
> # make tools
> # make kernels
> 
> Was enough for what I want. After that,
> 
> # make install-xen
> # make install-tools
> # make install-kernels
> 
> --
> Bye,
> Fernando Maior
> LPIC/1 31908
> 

Excuse me guys, the line:

"Then I read the :" should be:
"Then, I exec ´make --help´ and run:"

-- 
Bye,
Fernando Maior
LPIC/1 31908

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