Re: [Xen-devel] Xen x devfs

[Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have tried to compile under Mandrake-9.1. Make oldconfig discards
> most of the Mandrake options (I have had no success with make menuconfig
> also). I do not have a compatible NIC, so cannot comment on that. How can
> one preserve the working config settings of Mandrake with a view of
> xenolinux compilation?

I expect the options that make oldconfig discarded were all for
various hardware drivers -- in Xen 1.2, hardware drivers go in
Xen, not xenolinux, so this is correct. 

Were there any non-hardware related options that were being
rejected that you needed?
 
> For a change I tried it under VMWare-4 work station. The boot process
> starts, NIC (pcnet32) is detected bu xenollinux hangs during boot. I
> vaguely recall that VMWare does not allow certain part of memory to
> be allocated for OS (but misplaced the info). I can post the messges
> to hang point if someone is interested.

That's very odd. Lots of people usedXen/Xenolinux under VMWare
just fine. Does VMWare boot the XenDemoCD OK? If so, I suspect
your problems may be due to the compiler version shipped with
Mandrake causing a broken Xen/Xenolinux.

> > I haven't heard success reports or otherwise with Mandrake [can
> > anyone else on the list comment?], but there's no reason why it
> > can't be made to work -- we'll be happy to help you do so.
> 
> I did try the xen.gz and xenolinux.gz from 1.2 CD, it got rid
> of most of the hardware config during boot process :-(

What hardware has you machine got?  Xen's hardware support is
somewhat limited at present.

Ian


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