[Fedora-xen] source for building kernel-xen0 ?

[Huei-Ping Chen]

Cool! thanks for the pointer, now I am ready for my adventure!

> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:38:22 +0100
> From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
> To: Huei-Ping Chen <huchen at cisco.com>
> Cc: fedora-xen at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] source for building kernel-xen0 ?
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> On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:30:21AM -0700, Huei-Ping Chen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am a newbie here, and I have installed fedora core 5, xen, xen0, xenU on 
> > my thinkpad laptop, follows the quick start guide, I can bring up guest 
> > xenU, everything works fine, including networking.
> > 
> > now I want to learn more about xen, and want to build everything from 
> > scartch,
> > there are some rpm comes with fedora 5, like some kernel-xen-devel package, 
> > but it only include the headers file, no C codes at all, 
> > 
> > so I googled though every where, but I could ot find the source RPM for 
that,
> > the only xen source I can find is xen-3.o.???.src.rpm, which builds kernel
> > ends with "xen", not "xen0", 
> > 
> > so I am wondering where do I find the source or building xen0 ? or, I should
> > just use the "xen-3.o.???.src.rpm" ?
> 
> In Fedora land, all kernels, baremetal, Dom0 and DomU are built from a 
> single master source RPM. The latest errata for FC5 is
> 
> 
http://download.fedora.devel.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/SRPMS/ke
rnel-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5.src.rpm
> 
> The 'xen' SRPM that you see is just used to build & package the corresponding
> userspace bits.
> 
> Bear in mind that if you're modifying stuff make absolutely sure you use
> matched versions of the kernel & userland bits. For FC5 the latest userland
> SRPM for Xen is
> 
> 
http://download.fedora.devel.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/SRPMS/xe
n-3.0.2-3.FC5.src.rpm
> 
> Regards
> Dan.
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