On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 6:54 AM, David Gonzalez <
dgonzalezh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Teck Choon Giam <
giamteckchoon@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 5:35 AM, David Gonzalez <
dgonzalezh@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > Yo, Teck, nice name heh,
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>> Grrr... My Surname is Giam and Name is Teck Choon :p
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>> > On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Teck Choon Giam
>> > <
giamteckchoon@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
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>> >> On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 1:25 PM, David Gonzalez <
dgonzalezh@xxxxxxxxx>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Hey hope this opne is a "make senser".
>> >> >
>> >> > Has anyone tried the "Subject line" combo?, I've compiled a dozen
>> >> > src.rpm
>> >> > kern el 3.0 and 3.1 packages with no luck to try native upstream Dom0
>> >> > kernel
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>> >> > support with no success, just a kernel oops and constant reboots.
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>> >> I have compiled 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2 kernels for dom0 and domU for my
>> >> own patched kernels (add iscsitarget as module into it as example).
>> >> Tested with xen-4.1.3-rc1-pre.
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>> > Ok, I'm guessing that mus me one of my many mistakes when doing this, I
>> > haven't added the rite modules.
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>> >> > I followed Fedora's wiki on building a custom kernel, even used
>> >> > F16's >
>> >> > .config which also was a no-no. I'd like to try F16 which comes with
>> >> > 3.0 >
>> >> > out-of-the-box, but I've already set up my CentOS 6.2 pretty nicely
>> >> > to
>> >> > just "mkfs.ext3" on it, so if anyone has some _updated_ info (3rd
>> >> > quarter
>> >> > 2011 or 2012) that I can refer to, please advise.
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>> >> Although I don't use CentOS 6. I use Scientific Linux 6 instead.
>> >> Don't use Fedora kernel .config as there are many debug options
>> >> enabled if I remember correctly. Even I use RHEL6 .config for
>> >> 2.6.32.x pvops kernel for Jeremy's xen git tree will encounter
>> >> problems. In short, you can use one of those .config then use make
>> >> menuconfig to disable power, cgroup, debug etc. options and start
>> >> from there as this is how I did.
>> >>
>> > Hmm, I tried that with rpmbuild -bb kernel.spec and as described on F16
>> > wiki, and disabled many many options and the kernel compiled aok and the
>> > installed fine but never booted, it kept rebooting.
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>> Just a question... is your xen installed from source or from rpm package?
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> It's from myoung Fedora repos it's rpm package, altho I built 4.1.2 myself
> but it's not installed from those but froma repo.
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>> > I'll try your suggestions and hope that it helps.
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>> If that doesn't, you can use mine instead of burning your time to make
>> it work ;) Anyway, I think it is a good experience to make it work
>> from self compile and there are many things to learn from this
>> experience.
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> Huh, self-compiled, I've done that a hundred times, but it's always a no-no,
> i'v compiled 2.6.32 to 2.6.40 also 3.0.x to 3.1.x and no luck either, I've
> got a devel machine runiing also CentOS 6.0 with 4 cores and 2048MB uin RAM
> so itr takes not tyoo long but it's frustrating to reboot and get nothing.
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> I'd like to try yours, do you happen to have a repo or some place to get
> your rpms?.
