Re: [Xen-users] Backporting Xen 3.2 to Etch

["edu gargiulo" <egargiulo+lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Thomas Halinka <lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Edu,
>
> Am Dienstag, den 13.01.2009, 10:13 -0300 schrieb edu gargiulo:
>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:00 AM, James Harper
>> <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > Unless they've updated things, the backports version is missing a
>> > patch
>> >> > that lets 2008 work properly (crashes during install or soon after).
>> > If
>> >> > you don't care about 2008, or vista (probably), then the backports
>> >> > version otherwise works fine.
>> >> >
>> >> > 3.3.1 compiled from xensource without involving Debian packaging
>> > works
>> >> > great for me.
>> >>
>> >> Could you please tell me which version/arch of debian are you using?
>> >> I've been trying to run xen-3.2.1 from backports.org without success
>> >> (see other thread "Xorg problems with xen"), and try to compile it
>> >> from sourcess without success too. I'm using testing on amd64. If
>> >> necessary to have a working xen, I could migrate to i386.
>> >>
>> >
>> > I just downloaded, compiled, and installed. You need to make sure there
>> > are no Debian Xen packages left. I think you might need to set up xend
>> > starting automatically too.
>> >
>> > Maybe you are missing some packages?
>>
>> Did you compiled just xen sources or the whole kernel? Which kernel
>> version? Did you compiled debian way or just downloaded from
>> xensources and make install? There is not updated documentation about
>> compiling xen on debian and I have not experience on compiling
>> packages;
>> The kernel package from xen-linux-system-amd64 (2.6.26-1) have bugs
>> and I can't start x-window using xen kernel.
>
>
> Do you have intel graphics?

No, I'm using nVidia

amd64x2:~$ sudo lspci -v | grep -A 7 -F VGA
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51PV [GeForce
6150] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
       Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A8N-VM CSM
       Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
       Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
       Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
       Memory at fb000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
       [virtual] Expansion ROM at c2000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
       Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2

You can find detailed information on the errors I'm getting on a
previous thread "Xorg problem with xen" on this list 3 days ago.

Any help on compile or get a working xen on debian would be appreciated.

regards,

--
edu

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