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Re: [Xen-users] More basic questions

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] More basic questions
From: Derrik Pates <demon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 10:52:22 -0400
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Paul Reilly wrote:
> But when I do the 'make ARCH=xen menuconfig'  - I don't get to see half
> the device driver options I normally get to see if I do a non xen
> architecture build. I need to enable a number of things for my
> custom kernel (ext3 acls,tigon3 ethernet,megaraid,i2c support etc)
> for my dom0 kernel, but it's not listed in the Xen menuconfig options.
> Can I just copy in the config lines to my xen built .config ? That
> doesn't seem to work. How can add support for these extra device drivers?

You need to go into the XEN section under menuconfig and enable
privileged guest mode, direct hardware access support, along with net
and block device backend drivers. Those are not enabled by default. All
the hardware drivers should then appear.

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Derrik Pates
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