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RE: [Xen-devel] no vmxloader.c in unstable??

To: "Robert Smart" <robert.kenneth.smart@xxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] no vmxloader.c in unstable??
From: "Li, Xin B" <xin.b.li@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 18:45:07 +0800
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Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] no vmxloader.c in unstable??
>I wanted to try vmx in my new D920 system. I've installed the x86_64
>version of ubuntu.
>
>Looking at this mailing list I see that vmx has been made to work
>again with patch 8870. Since testing is at an earlier patch, I bravely
>grabbed unstable. All went OK except that debian's mkinitrd gave some
>warnings, then failed to create an initrd file. I grabbed yaird and
>that seemed to work. At any rate the system booted and dom0 came up
>ok.
>
>However there was no vmxloader created and indeed there is no
>vmxloader.c in tools/firmware/vmxassist. The funny thing is that there
>are files vmloader.c.? in the corresponding directory under .hg/data.
>I couldn't figure out how to ask mercurial what it thinks is going on.
>

Now after merging with the HVM tree, it should be
tools/firmware/hvmloader/hvmloader.c.
Besides, you need dev86 package to compile it on x86_64.
-Xin


>I notice that there is a vmxloader.c in the corresponding directory
>under the testing repository.
>
>Any advice would be welcome. Sorry to bother you busy folk.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Robert Smart
>
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