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

[Itai Tavor <itai@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok... thanks, Mats.

I thought domain 0 couldn't be 2.4, didn't realize I couldn't even  
use 2.4 in a guest.
No 2.4 in Xen, no 2.6 in IPCop... oh well, IPCop stays in its box.

Itai


On 24/04/2006, at 7:06 PM, Petersson, Mats wrote:

> 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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