Re: [Xen-users] Did anyone succeeded in installing xen 4.0.0 on Debian Lenny?

[Morbid Angel <mangel@xxxxxx>]

there are 4.0 pkgs in sid and sqeeze, you can use them for lenny with 
some deps from sid/sqeeze or recompile them...
I use the same pkgs for last ubuntu... have changed the deps for ubuntu

Am 11.08.2010 17:39, schrieb Jeff Williams:
> On 11/08/2010, at 10:59 PM, Meister Schieber wrote:
>
> > 2010/8/11 Adi Kriegisch <adi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:adi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > >> There are not too many howtos regarding xen 4.0 on Debian lenny, so
> > I tried
> > >> them all and all failed.
> > > I am using Xen 4 on Lenny for quite some time. At that time no official
> > > Xen4 packages were available so I forward ported the Xen 3.4 debian
> > dir and
> > > patches to Xen 4.0 which worked fine.
> > > I'd suggest you get the source of the Xen packages from unstable and
> > try to
> > > compile them on Lenny. There are probably some dependencies you might
> > need
> > > to resolve but it should work just fine.
> > > 2.6.32 pvops kernels are available from backports and work just fine.
> >
> > Thanks, I will try that.
> >
> > I just cannot believe that there is so much trouble with xen and one
> > of the most common linux distributions (debian / ubuntu). The
> > "official" lenny-xen-packages (3.2.1) are total crap (try to get a
> > domu (bridged or via PCI pass thru) runnig as a router for more than 3
> > reboots) and the "source code howto" does not work properly either. I
> > really don't know, how many days I have wasted trying to get this
> > sh**t working. We are talking about two so called "stables" for God's
> > sake!
> It would be absolutely fantastic if there were binary packages available
> to set up a dom0 of the latest xen on debian and ubuntu. I don't know
> enough about it, but are there technical issues which stop this from
> happening?
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
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