Re: [Xen-users] vanilla kernel and xen (in general), vanilla 2.6.24 and xen

[Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 03:08:13PM +0000, Mark Williamson wrote:
> >     I'm trying to boot 2.6.24 as a paravirt guest.  I'm using all
> > the config selections you describe.  I've done all this, from the day
> > "Xen" support landed up until 2.6.24 release.  I've never gotten it to
> > boot, not once.  These days (2.6.24), I get it starting, but it can
> > never mount /dev/root.  I tried the 0x20201/xvda1 trick, but that
> > doesn't help either.  I've often wondered - which file should I be
> > using from my build?  arch/x86/boot/bzImage?  ./vmlinux?
> 
> Use the vmlinux.  By the way, if you strip it and maybe gzip it, it comes 
> down 
> to a much less unwieldy size.
> 
> That ought to at least be loadable by the domain builder, which is a start.  
> Then we could see where it crashes next :-)  Have you managed to get it this 
> far?  If so, what happened?

        Haha, with 2.6.24 I don't even get any boot messages past pygrub
now.  Someone else is telling me that to use a pv_ops guest I need some
special xen tree?  Is that true? 

Joel

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Joel Becker
Principal Software Developer
Oracle
E-mail: joel.becker@xxxxxxxxxx
Phone: (650) 506-8127

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