Re: [Xen-users] mercurial? and 3.1 build setup?

[Geoff Kirk <geoff.k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I've noticed that lately a lot of links seem to bring up 404 errors. I 
get the impression that xensource is trying to be difficult with 
open-source on purpose in favor of their commercial products.
Geoff

Tom Brown wrote:
> The old mercurial cheatsheet described in the wiki at
>
>    http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/SubmittingXenPatches
>
> seems to be missing ...
>
>    http://xen.xensource.com/documentation/hg-cheatsheet.txt
>
> which given that 3.1.1 is only available from mercurial is a bit of a 
> pissoff.
> hhmm, ok, it's still available at
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/readmes/hg-cheatsheet.txt
>
> ... that link comes from http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenWiki
>
> hhmm, that seems way out of date and more targetted to developers than 
> end-users (probably why it got deleted) ... let's try doing this by 
> guesswork
> cd /usr/src
> mkdir xen
> cd xen
>
> # obviously those just create a /usr/src/xen directory
> # the next three commands seem to pull the xen source
> # assuming you have mercurial, which is available from rpmforge
> # for redhat based installations.
>
> hg init
> hg pull http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.1-testing.hg
> hg update
>
>
> "make world" then seems to go off and do it's thing, but I can't 
> figure out what it's using for a kernel config... if you cd into the 
> logical linux-2.6.18-xen_x86_32 directory and try to make menuconfig 
> you find a very sparse config which doesn't match what make world is 
> compiling... further you completely screw up whatever config make 
> world _is_ using :(
> So how are you supposed to configure a xen 3.1.x build? This is the 
> same trouble I had with 3.1.0, as described here:
>    
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2007-09/msg00050.html
> So, can someone please tell me how I'm supposed to build a current xen 
> install such that I have the modules I want compiled in? If I can only 
> have one kernel that's fine, I just need it so that I'm not loading 
> modules via initrd.
> If that also helps avoid having to compile every darn module in the 
> linux source tree, that would also be good (30 minutes later and the 
> box is still compiling... it shouldn't take more than 5 minutes to 
> compile the pieces I _need_).
> -Tom
>
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