how to build custom XEN kernels
Hi thers!
How do I build custom XEN kernels?
I did read the documentation, but it did not help much.
/usr/share/doc/xen-utils-3.0.3-1/README.Debian.gz says this:
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Should you want to roll your own kernel this is the way you do it. First
download from http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-xen/ the kernel patch
for your version of xen. Then download the relevant kernel from kernel.org,
apply the patch, configure and build your kernel in the standard way (with
kernel package).
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Now, here come the problems.
1. I can not find any patches at the given address.
Looking a bit harder, I found the page http://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=30894
(but this page does not seem to be linked from http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-xen/ ),
which does indeed contain patches, but there is no 3.0.3 version.
2. I find the instructions above somewhat strange. Whe do I have to download anything
from kernel.org? Should not it be possible to build anything from linux-source-2.6.18,
or at least from the linux-2.6 source package? (The binary XEN kernels are built from
the linux-2.6 source package, too.)
Thank you for your help!
Kristof Csillag
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