Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Xen kernel issue

[Robin Green <greenrd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Travis Newman wrote:

> Sorry to keep posting, just wanted to update this on where I am now.
>
> > I've gotten Xen working for dom0, but I haven't gone past that because when 
> > using the Xen kernel, there's no support for fat filesystems (which contain 
> > a lot of what I need, though I don't use Windows anymore, I don't have the 
> > space to backup everything to format to ext3) and no support for sound. I'm 
> > using Alsa by the way. I've tried to recompile the kernel in different 
> > ways. First off, I tried "make ARCH=xen xconfig" and enabling what I 
> > needed, "make ARCH=xen oldconfig" after restoring my .config from my 
> > current kernel, and finally, using mkbuildtree to xen-ify my kernel source 
> > (2.6.10) and then loading the .config from xconfig. None of these worked, 
> > they would keep failing for different reasons. I can be more specific if I 
> > need to, I'm just wondering what the "right way" to get the exact same 
> > options that are in my kernel now, along with the xen options.
> > I'm using Ubuntu Linux (a Debian variant), and though I'm using a stock 
> > kernel, I have had experience with compiling my own kernel before.
> > Thanks in advance!
> > Travis
> I installed Fedora Core 3, which from what I heard was much easier to get 
> things going in. I saw that I had to be running the devel release to get the 
> rpms from the yum repository, so I changed my yum.conf, and got them 
> installed.
Yeah, don't do that :)

> Only problem is, it broke yum, up2date, and system-config-packages because of 
> a new version of python. Maybe I had to be running EVERYTHING development, I 
> don't know.
No, you don't. All you have to do from that broken state is:

a) reinstall your old python with

rpm -ivh --force [insert location of old python rpm]

b) Change the first line in /usr/sbin/xend to read
#!/usr/bin/env python2.4

That should be enough to get you up and running. You'll probably have to 
make the same change to some other scripts, like /usr/sbin/xensv
--
Robin



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