Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

["Michael D. Norwick" <mnorwick@centurytel.net>]

Michael D. Norwick wrote:
> Michael D. Norwick wrote:
> > Rick Thomas wrote:
> > > I'm trying to get started with Xen.
> Still trying to build a Xen kernel with or without the dfsg.  Found 
> this though;
>
> http://help.lockergnome.com/linux/build-XEN-make-kpkg-ftopict384180.html
>
> Michael
Still trying to compile a XEN enabled kernel and got somewhat farther.  
Taking hints from a blog on building xen 3.2 specifically I found

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/readmes/hg-cheatsheet.txt

Unfortunately, I did not bookmark the initial page that linked to the 
mercurial cheatsheet above.  It essentially said that the xen 3.2 stable 
source build was broken and that in order to get it to build correctly 
it recommended downloading the whole 'testing' repository source tree 
using the command;

$> hg clone http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.2-testing.hg

I wondered where hg was (I knew it was the symbol for mercury) as I did 
not have that particular program installed.  It turns out that the xen 
project uses mercurial as a revision control system and that program 
needed to be installed in order to clone the project source tree.  Now I 
have cvs, subversion AND mercurial.  Using;

$> sudo apt-get install mercurial

brought in mercurial along with python 2.5 and friends.  I was then able 
to run the hg command and download the 'testing (3.2.1)' source tree.  I 
thought I had all the tools necessary to build xen a week ago but, 
apparently not.  The build is running now and I can relate the rest of 
the story if anyone is interested.  I would also like to try 'make 
world' on the xen-3.2 directory to see if I just needed tools which were 
not spelled out in the 'README'.  I've used up a lot of bandwidth 
(sorry!) at kernel.org getting linux 2.6.18 several times and still will 
need to resolve;

1.  The kernel xen-3.2 uses, appears to be set at linux-2.6.18 and 
trying to use a more recent kernel version appears troublesome.
2.  Building distribution packages are documented on RedHat, Ubuntu, and 
CentOS, but debian will require some study (and I don't know if I care
    about running xen from a .deb).

Michael