[Xen-users] Facing Xen 4.0 Problems, I Have Some Basic Questions

[andre.d@xxxxxxx]

Hello there,

I am having serious trouble bringing up my (remote) box with Xen 4.0.1-rc5 and 
2.6.32.16-xen. I trust I'm going to sort it all out but I have a few questions 
for which I did not find answers on the Web so far. Brief answers to point me 
in the right direction would be highly appreciated.

1) Building Xen 4.0 on a dev box, then install on a similar target: Can I build 
Xen on an AMD64 2.6.26-2 Debian Lenny (Desktop) for an AMD64 2.6.32.16-xen 
target? Technically it appears to work; I just make xen; make tools; make 
stubdom; and then I tar and scp the dist/install subdirectory. Shoul this 
approach work?

2) Building 2.6.2.16-xen the Debian way on a dev box, then install on a similar 
target: Same machines as above. make-kpkg and scp the .deb. Directly booting my 
2.6.2.16-xen on the target with Grub 2 works just fine. I have one question 
though; I am not supplying any modules. The kernel has everything needed for 
startup compiled in. Is it possible to build the initd image on the dev machine 
(unning the older kernel) for the target in a straight-forward fashion, with 
make? Or do I hav to fake the target machine config for mkinitramfs? Any 
pointers?

3) Any kernel I tried so far will only boot with noapic acpi=off, so I provided 
that for Xen, too. Is this feature reliable? Can I rely on Xen to pass these 
parameters on to the Linux kernel (or does it inherit the settings)? (I read it 
in the documentaion, but then again, APIC and ACPI seem to cause a lot of 
trouble for many.)

Thank you!
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