RE: [Xen-users] XENified RH Kernel

["Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>]

 

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From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Max E Baro
Sent: 25 May 2006 21:06
To: 'xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [Xen-users] XENified RH Kernel

Greetings Xen Masters!

 

I have an application that will only install in specific RedHat ES Kernels and I'm trying to install XEN using a RedHat kernel as the source.

 

I created a tar.bz2 image of the kernel source for RedHat ES4 and placed it in the /usr/src/xen-3.0.2-2 directory. ( I have no inet access from this box so the original install had the linux-2.6.16.tar.bz6 image and worked).

 

I then typed 'make world' and it fails with the following message:

 

'snip'

make -C linux-2.6.9-xen ARCH=x86_64 oldconfig
make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/xen-3.0.2-2/linux-2.6.9-xen'
scripts/kconfig/conf -o arch/x86_64/Kconfig
arch/x86_64/Kconfig:493: can't open file "kernel/Kconfig.hz"
make[5]: *** [oldconfig] Error 1
make[4]: *** [oldconfig] Error 2
'snip'

 

I can extract Kconfig.hz from linux-2.6.16-tar.bz2, but I don't know what this file is or what it does.  My goal is to run my application in a subdomain using a RedHat kernel without a VT processor.

 

Has anyone else used a distro's kernel to create a xen domain?

 

any help would be greatly appreciated  :>)

 

Thanx...Max 

 

I don't know the answer to your question about Kconfig.hz, nor does there seem to be one of those files in my .../linux-2.6.16.13-xen/../kernel directory, so I guess extracting it from the linux-2.6.16.tar.bz2 file would not work either.

 

Are you sure that it will even work to do this? Most installations that I've seen that require a very particular kernel version are also using binary modules that are compiled to be used with that particular version of kernel, and will most likely fail if you try to give it a Xenified kernel... 

 

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Mats 

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