[Xen-users] PUZZLES WITH A CUSTOM XENLINUX BUILD

[David Rayner <dr@xxxxxxxxx>]

   Hi there,

   /I've been working with the Xen binaries, but I need to support 
additional devices so I'm trying to build a custom XenLinux. I thought I 
would go the testing route and so I've downloaded two things.
   First, I downloaded mercurial-0-6b.tar.gz from www.selenic.com. into 
/home/admin/src. After untarring it I went into the resulting directory 
mercurial-0-6b. Using the provided README gave a quick trouble-free 
installation. A simple hg confirmed it was working.
   Second, I downloaded xen-2.0-testing.hg.gz from xen.sf.net. After 
untarring that I went into the resulting directory xen-2.0-testing.hg. 
Online I did a hg pull -u, and this seemed to modify and change some 
files successfully.
   At this point I feel completely puzzled. Because of the work on the 
binaries I have a config file to hand - /boot/config-2.6.10-xen0, but I 
cannot see where to place it if I want to use it as the basis for a make 
operation.
   In the Xen Users' Manual, under the heading 2.3.3 Custom XenLinux 
Builds there are four lines:
   # cd linux-2.6.9-xen0
   # make ARCH=xen xconfig
   # cd ...
   # make
   I would have thought the config file should go into the given 
linux-2.6.9-xen0, but I cannot find this in my existing setup. Just 
where do I put it?
   In the previous section of the Users' Manual it says that the 
top-level Makefile will "download (if necessary) and unpack the Linux 
2.6 source code". This suggests that if the xconfig is done that any 
necessary source code will be downloaded on the second make. Is that 
correct?
   TIA,

   dr
/

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