Re: [Xen-users] Problems building a xen0 kernel on Suse 9.3

["James Bulpin" <James.Bulpin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 24, 2005 1:59 am, James Bulpin said:
> I've just tried a build of the tree extracted from that RPM on my FC3 box
> - it appears to build fine. I'll check on a SuSe box tomorrow - access
> isn't practical right now.

I tried the following on an out-of-the-box SuSE 9.3 install:

rpm --install /tmp/kernel-source-2.6.11.4-20a.i586.rpm
cd /usr/src/linux  (symlinks to linux-2.6.11.4-20a)
cp ./arch/i386/defconfig.xen .config
make ARCH=xen oldconfig
make ARCH=xen

It got a good way through the build and only stopped due to an unrelated
problem.

Can you post the actual errors you saw?

Regards,

James

> On Mon, May 23, 2005 6:01 pm, Jeffrey Buell said:
>> James,
>>
>> Not much chance of insulting my intelligence here.  I have been using
>> Xen
>> as
>> part of the Fedora core 4 development releases, but I'm new to SuSE 9.3.
>> In
>> FC4 I use the source RPMs (for both the kernel and Xen) as supplied by
>> Fedora, and I'd like to do the same with SuSE, using source from the
>> installation CDs.  I didn't need to install any source RPM in order to
>> build
>> the regular kernel.  Does Xen need something extra not installed by
>> SuSE?
>> I'm not sure if I'm "building a xen kernel tree".  In FC4 the xen
>> kernels
>> are
>> built in the same way and same directory as the regular kernel.  I just
>> need
>> ARCH=xen and a xen config file.  Is the procedure different in SuSE?
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>>
>>> Jeff,
>>>
>>> Please don't take this the wrong way, I don't mean to insult your
>>> intelligence - are you sure you're building a xen kernel tree
>>> rather than
>>> the native (ARCH=xen will not work on the latter). Presumably
>>> this is the
>>> SuSE source RPM rather than one of our tarball or BK
>>> distributions? Could
>>> be an issue with the location that the RPM installs the source to.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> James
>>> (will be offline from now until tomorrow)
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 20, 2005 11:03 pm, Jeffrey Buell said:
>>> > I installed Suse 9.3 Pro along with all the kernel tools
>>> and sources.  I
>>> > was
>>> > easily able to build a new regular kernel, but not a xen0
>>> kernel.  With
>>> > ARCH=xen and using the supplied config file, "make" almost
>>> immediately
>>> > runs
>>> > into problems creating links to various asm directories in the
>>> > kernel/build
>>> > dir.  I fixed this by copying all of /usr/src/linux into
>>> kernel/build.
>>> > Everything then compiled but I got 2 undefined references:
>>> teardown_irq
>>> > in
>>> > ctrl_if_suspend, and kmap_flush_unused in balloon_process.
>>> Presumably
>>> > there
>>> > is no bug since a working xen0 kernel was supplied in the
>>> distro.  What do
>>> > people do differently when building a xen0 kernel vs. a
>>> regular kernel?
>>> >
>>> > Jeff
>>
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