Re: [Xen-devel] pvops kernel question

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 08:59:41AM +0530, Onkar Mahajan wrote:
>    Thank you very much,  Pasi , for your help.
>    Just a novice question -
> 
>    when I build xen-4.0.0 (from here
>    [1]http://bits.xensource.com/oss-xen/release/4.0.0/xen-4.0.0.tar.gz) , it
>    downloads pvops kernel , is there any way I can use
>    my own pvops kernel instead of this ?
> 

Yes you can.
Please see: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen4.0

-- Pasi

>    Regards,
>    Onkar
> 
>    On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <[2]pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>      On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:51:19PM +0530, Onkar Mahajan wrote:
>      >    I read here [1][3]http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps
>      >    this :
>      >
>      > Using Xen/paravirt_ops
>      >
>      >   Building with domU support
>      >
>      >     1. Get a current kernel. The latest [2][4]kernel.org kernel is
>      generally a
>      >        good choice.
>      >     2. Configure as normal; you can start with your current .config
>      file
>      >     3. If building 32 bit kernel make sure you have CONFIG_X86_PAE
>      enabled
>      >        (which is set by selecting CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G)
>      >
>      >           * non-PAE mode doesn't work in 2.6.25, and has been dropped
>      >             altogether from 2.6.26 and newer kernel versions.
>      >
>      >     4. Enable these core options:
>      >
>      >          1. CONFIG_PARAVIRT_GUEST
>      >          2. CONFIG_XEN
>      >
>      >     5. And Xen pv device support
>      >
>      >          1. CONFIG_HVC_DRIVER and CONFIG_HVC_XEN
>      >          2. CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND
>      >          3. CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND
>      >
>      >     6. And build as usual
>      >
>      >    My question is :
>      >
>      >    I have original kernel of FC12 that has all the configuration
>      options as
>      >    shown above ?  Does this kernel can act as a
>      >    pvops kernel  ?
>      >
> 
>      Yes, Fedora's kernel is pvops, since pvops is in upstream [5]kernel.org
>      kernels.
>      >    If I choose to build my own pvops kernel , how do I do it ?
>      >
> 
>      Just grab latest kernel from [6]kernel.org and build with Xen pvops
>      options enabled.
> 
>      -- Pasi
> 
>      >    Regards,
>      >    Onkar
>      >
>      > References
>      >
>      >    Visible links
>      >    1. [7]http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps
>      >    2. [8]http://kernel.org/
> 
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> 
> References
> 
>    Visible links
>    1. http://bits.xensource.com/oss-xen/release/4.0.0/xen-4.0.0.tar.gz
>    2. mailto:pasik@xxxxxx
>    3. http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps
>    4. http://kernel.org/
>    5. http://kernel.org/
>    6. http://kernel.org/
>    7. http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps
>    8. http://kernel.org/
>    9. mailto:Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   10. http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

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