[Fedora-xen] Dom0 kernels

[Bill McGonigle]

On 12/10/2009 12:43 PM, M A Young wrote:
> Here is another dom0 kernel (kernel-2.6.31.6-1.2.81.xendom0.fc12) at
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1866048 and via the
> repository http://fedorapeople.org/~myoung/dom0/ .

Good initial success with .82 here.  Kudos.

> Note for this one the
> evtchn module has become xen-evtchn so any scripts that load modules
> might need to be changed.

This is the one thing that tripped me up.  I made these changes and can 
now get a clean boot (not having to modprobe xen-evtchn):

--- /etc/sysconfig/modules/xen.modules~ 2009-10-09 11:11:24.000000000 -0400
+++ /etc/sysconfig/modules/xen.modules  2010-01-06 18:03:55.000000000 -0500
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@
  test -f /proc/xen/capabilities                 || exit 0
  grep -q "control_d" /proc/xen/capabilities     || exit 0

-for module in evtchn blkbk netbk; do
+for module in xen-evtchn blkbk netbk; do
         modprobe ${module} >/dev/null 2>&1
  done
--- /etc/udev/rules.d/xen-backend.rules~        2009-08-06 
09:57:25.000000000 -0400
+++ /etc/udev/rules.d/xen-backend.rules 2010-01-06 18:04:59.000000000 -0500
@@ -5,5 +5,5 @@
  SUBSYSTEM=="xen-backend", KERNEL=="vif*", ACTION=="offline", 
RUN+="$env{script} offline"
  SUBSYSTEM=="xen-backend", KERNEL=="vscsi*", 
RUN+="/etc/xen/scripts/vscsi $env{ACTION}"
  SUBSYSTEM=="xen-backend", ACTION=="remove", 
RUN+="/etc/xen/scripts/xen-hotplug-cleanup"
-KERNEL=="evtchn", NAME="xen/%k"
+KERNEL=="xen-evtchn", NAME="xen/%k"
  KERNEL=="blktap[0-9]*", NAME="xen/%k"

I don't know enough about the modules to understand if distributed 
versions should have both rules or just the new one (when they first 
started being used, are they in DomU, etc.).

-Bill
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