RE: [Xen-users] Building kernels *within* a domU

["Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>]

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> john maclean
> Sent: 22 September 2006 10:29
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> Subject: [Xen-users] Building kernels *within* a domU
> 
> Hey chaps,
> 
> I've been happily building and running images for my domUs and the
> following occoured to me:- how does one build a kernel *within* a
> domU? How would a domU specify which kernel to use when it's
> hard-coded (see 4 below)? In summary:-
> 
> 1) xen testing, 3.0.2-2
> 2) Using a single kernel (/boot/{config-2.6.16-xen, xen-3.0.2-2.gz} )
> for all domains
> 3) I'm using file-based images, (created by dd)
> 4) The kernel for each domU is specified within /etc/xen/foo

You could certainly build the kernel within DomU, but you'd have to copy
it out of DomU into Dom0, since Dom0 has to load the kernel for you
[unless you run fully virtualized kernel, in which case you'd just build
the kernel as per a standalone system...]. You could use something like
"ssh .../vmlinuz dom0name:<wherver>" to copy the kernel, assuming you
haven't prevented ssh from getting from DomU to Dom0 with your firewall
settings in Dom0 (or DomU firewall settings, if you have any of those). 

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Mats
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