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RE: [Xen-users] Xen 3 + kernel 2.4.30 = failure, why oh why


  • To: "Itai Tavor" <itai@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • From: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:06:38 +0200
  • Cc: junghwan rhee <jhrhee@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Delivery-date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 02:07:30 -0700
  • List-id: Xen user discussion <xen-users.lists.xensource.com>
  • Thread-index: AcZmxhfAraChqTHwT6iW/5EtXQ0Q3AAt9fEA
  • Thread-topic: [Xen-users] Xen 3 + kernel 2.4.30 = failure, why oh why

I believe there's no patch for kernel 2.4.x to work with Xen 3.

It would of course be possible to create such a thing, but it's a fair
amount of work checking that nothing got missed and/or something hasn't
been broken. 

Of course, with new processors that support Hardware Virtualization, you
could probably support just about ANY kernel - Linux kernels should
definitely work quite well, other OS kernels may find the odd bug left
to find in the HVM support routines... ;-)

--
Mats

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Itai Tavor
> Sent: 23 April 2006 09:53
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Xen-users] Xen 3 + kernel 2.4.30 = failure, why oh why
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I installed Xen 3.0 and managed to get it to work without too 
> many problems, I got several working domains using 
> linux-2.6.16-xenU. I'm trying to set up a domain with 
> linux-2-4.30 (to run IPCop on) but I keep getting Error: (22, 
> 'Invalid argument'). I started with a stock 2.4.30 kernel, 
> patched it with linux-2.4.30-xen.patch and configured it for 
> a guest, then did:
> 
> # make ARCH=xen dep
> # make ARCH=xen clean
> # make ARCH=xen bzImage
> # cp arch/xen/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.30-xenU # xm 
> create -c ipcop.sxp Using config file "/etc/xen/ipcop.sxp".
> Error: (22, 'Invalid argument')
> 
> My config is:
> 
> name = "ipcop"
> kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.30-xenU"
> root = "/dev/hda4"
> memory = 128
> disk = [ 'phy:system/ipcop-boot,hda1,w',
>           'phy:system/ipcop-log,hda2,w',
>           'phy:system/ipcop-root,hda4,w' ]
> 
> The same config, with the kernel changed to 
> vmlinuz-2.6.16-xenU works fine.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> TIA, Itai
> 
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