reopen 473645 thanks Bastian Blank wrote: > Because of several shortcommings in the maintainer scripts and > the image loader, this currently needs an extra image, which > is built.
The patch v2.08 which I supplied together with [0] against Xen itself addresses precisely those issues and removes the need for an extra image, that is exactly why I wrote it and got it merged upstream. With these patches a bzImage format vmlinuz file can be booted on native and can also be understood by the Xen domain builder. I have built -486 and -686-bigmem packages with these patches and the packages work fine under both native and Xen guest. If there are further issues with using the packages in a domU then I am not aware of them -- if you point me in the right direction I will fix those too. As it stands I think there is no reason to not apply these patches -- they cause no harm or regression. If there are remaining issues those can be addressed in due course. I appreciate that dom0 support is somewhat different. It is more involved and currently needs many more patches, it is probably a good idea to keep those in a separate package for now. Ian. [0] http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-03/msg01022.html which I was going to file as wishlist against the h/v package once it was applied upstream. -- Ian Campbell NOTICE: -- THE ELEVATORS WILL BE OUT OF ORDER TODAY -- (The nearest working elevator is in the building across the street.)