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Re: [Xen-users] Installing two versions of xen on the same machine

To: shankha <shankhabanerjee@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Installing two versions of xen on the same machine
From: "Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 13:32:30 +0700
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On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:00 PM, shankha<shankhabanerjee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks ... the installation was smooth.
>
> Since my installation of various packages got clumsy
> i removed the old Suse installation and installed it fresh.
>
> So i do not have the xen linux kernel. Is there a command to install
> the xen kernel seperately ?

If you want to use Xen's 2.6.18 kernel, you can do a "make help" on
the untarred xen source directory. It will show you how to do lots of
things.

Alternatively, go to http://www.xen.org/products/xen_source.html,
download "Linux 2.6.18 with Xen 3.4.x support source tarball", and
configure it like a normal kernel (make menuconfig, make, etc.)

And there's newer kernels of course. See
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenDom0Kernels

If you just want to use Suse's kernel-xen, the obvious way would be to
run "zypper install kernel-xen".


>
> One more request. Is there a way to uninstall it cleanly.

I'm not sure. "make uninstall" MIGHT work, but I haven't tested it.
There was a warning on this list sometime ago that "make uninstall"
deletes stuff on /boot with "xen" name on it, whether it's installed
by the source or not. I don't know if it's still the case.

This is one of the reasons why I prefer using RHEL5 + Gitco. I can
simply do a "yum install" and "yum erase" :D

-- 
Fajar

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