I read the tutorial http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-xen-3.3-with-kernel-2.6.27-on-ubuntu-8.10-x86_64 and while compiling the kernel got an error which I googled and found a solution here http://mulps.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/compiling-xen-kernel-2-6-29-2/ but still it is giving some error I am doing the steps above said on Ubuntu Jaunty machine could not find the right tutorial any one can suggest me the steps for the Ubuntu
I got the error /usr/src/linux-2.6.27-xen.hg/arch/x86/kernel/time_32-xen.c:469: undefined reference to `__udivdi3' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 Some how luckily I got the solution also by a mailing list on internet which worked also have a look http://mulps.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/compiling-xen-kernel-2-6-29-2/ It's known 32-bit issue. Instruction is for 64 bit. Since I am a newbie I dont even know how to apply the patch but then after asking people like right now I am doing I got how to do so in the end kernel compiled but when I booted it ,didnt worked it took so long time for my computer I kept on getting messages after messages and finally for about 20 minutes this lasted I had to shutdown by pressing the power button for long. I think I am not clear on which modules to select for compiling Dom0 kernel for Xen on Ubuntu I am using 9.04 desktop editon in which I updated most of the packages but still if you know any thing else that I should have updated do let me know. I installed the development packages but which ones I am not sure I followed the tutorial on howtoforge that has been mentioned What I want to do is simply be able to compile a Xen Kernel from source and be able to run it on my laptop using Ubuntu as Dom0 the latest 2.6.31.x tree from jeremy's git repository it's at 2.6.31.5 atm I am using stable hypervisor: 3.4.1 instead of development version 3.5 how can we tune kernel of xen when we call make menuconfig I am not clear on this part so that it is tuned for Dom0 Xen 3.4.2 released new stable release with a lot of bugfixes 3.4.x is still using linux-2.6.18-xen.hg as the default (dom0) kernel xen 3.5 (or 4.0, not sure yet what it'll be called) changed to pv_ops dom0 2.6.3x the switch was made a couple of months ago so xen-unstable (3.5) is already using pv_ops dom0 as a default hg clone http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-unstable.hg pv_ops dom0 kernel changelog: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git;a=shortlog;h=xen/master 'xen/master' is the branch with the latest stuff kernel.org linux kernel only contains Xen domU (guest) support so when building Xen dom0 kernel, I need to have a kernel with dom0 patches the official/supported dom0 kernel for Xen 3.4.x is linux 2.6.18 from http://xenbits.xen.org/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg mercurial repository then there is the "new" (still in development) pv_ops dom0 kernel, which is in the git.kernel.org git repository of Jeremy (the main developer) Now sir pv_ops dom0 patches are planned to be merged into upstream linux kernel (hopefully) near future i came across this information some where on internet .. but there's more like some people (Novell/opensuse) have 'forward-ported' the official 2.6.18 patches to newer kernels.. like 2.6.29, 2.6.31 etc and some people are using those patches for their dom0 kernels but those are 'unofficial' http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenDom0Kernels is in 2.6.18 is used when Xen Dom0 kernel is to work http://xenbits.xen.org/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg contains the latest xen patches applied to 2.6.18.8 kernel which can be downloaded with mercurial: hg clone http://xenbits.xen.org/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg since I am doing all this on my laptop if 2.6.18.8 is too old for my hardware.. novell/opensuse have patches for newer kernels and they are for Xen forward-ported to apply to newer kernels OR, another way is to grab Jeremy's pv_ops dom0 kernel which is the future I am having a laptop which is having a wifi which wont work Broadcom has released the opensource drivers but still many distributions have not worked the only which worked was Ubuntu 9.04 so I thought of doing all this on Ubuntu since when I mess with some thing I would like to search on internet my problem was if I use 2.6.18 kernel for Xen then my wifi is not working xen requires you to use bridges for the guests to get internet connectivity and I am not having a lan connection and wifi adapters cannot be used with bridges bridges since wifi doesn't support promisc mode bridges require promisc mode if I have to use internet in my guest machines on Xen I should be using a LAN connection or then you need to do NAT on dom0 guests can access the internet through the bridge or if I have to use wifi, then I need to use NAT, and a private host-only bridge to use only the wifi, without LAN, if I set up host-only bridge, and NAT from the bridge to wifi nat+dhcp using private ips I had downloaded from xen.org the xen kernel xen-3.4.1 went to /usr/src and extracted the archives and then executed make world it completed succesfully but when I have to do a make install I used an option given in the README files KERNELS="linux-2.6-xen0 linux-2.6-xenU" I used it like this make install KERNELS="linux-2.6-xen0 linux-2.6-xenU" I am now being asked here USB fontend driver (XEN_USB_FRONTEND) [M/n/y] how do I know which ones should I say yes and which one should I say no
