Re: howto build debian xen kernel?

[Grok Mogger <linuximp@gmail.com>]

Jonas Meurer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just tried to build a debian xen kernel, based on linux-source-2.6.18,
> linux-patch-debian-2.6.18 and kernel-package.
>
> According to the docs i found, i can apply the debian kernel sources in
> the following way:
>
> resivo:/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.18$ ../kernel-patches/all/2.6.18/apply/debian 2.6.18-10
>
> unfortunately, the xen (and vserver) patches are not in the default
> patchset, but in an extra 'series'. so i thought that the following
> should work:
>
> resivo:/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.18$ ../kernel-patches/all/2.6.18/apply/debian 2.6.18-10-extra
> Error: Target revision is not in our list of revisions
>
> obviously, it doesn't.
>
> So my simple question is: how do i build a debian xen kernel with
> make-kpkg from debian kernel sources?
>
> The official debian kernel images don't use make-kpkg, so it wouldn't
> help to look in debian/rules from linux-2.6.
>
> I didn't find any documentation about that topic. All howtos/tutorials/...
> that talk about building a xen kernel, use the original xen kernel
> sources, not the debian kernel source with patches.
>
> greetings,
>  jonas

You may have some need to compile your own kernel, but if you'd 
be fine with a pre-made vanilla Debian kernel, you can just 
install the appropriate Xen package.  The right one will drop a 
working Xen kernel in your /boot directory.  As I recall, you'll 
have to edit your GRUB menu.lst file and make an initrd with 
update-initramfs afterwards.  I think you want to pick one of 
the packages that starts with "xen-hypervisor".  There's a few 
of them.

I hope this might save you some trouble.

- GM


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