Re: how to compile a recent xen dom0 kernel on amd64?
Hello, 2007/9/13, Jonas Meurer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What is the current situation with xen on amd64? I have a dell SC1435 with 2 Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2212 HE (4 Cores) I just installed the xen kernel image from etch (2.6.18-4-xen-amd64) (installed it shortly - 1 or 2 weeks - before etch became stable) no downtime related to xen since. A few power outages and minor mistargeted shutdowns (I hate having a bulk of terms with nested screen sessions) but apart from that it serves depending on our situation between 4 and 12 domUs hth martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to compile a recent xen dom0 kernel on amd64?
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 01:42:22AM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: What is the current situation with xen on amd64? the debian/sid archive keeps no linux-image-2.6.22-2-xen-amd64, and I was not able to compile a 2.6.22 dom0 kernel with debian xen patches applied on my amd64 system. IMHO there is no upstream support for kernels newer than 2.6.18. The last official opinion I heard was that either Xen gets integrated into the Linux kernel or support for Xen will be dropped from Debian, since there are now other free alternatives that are fully supported on recent kernels. Support for domU is already merged into 2.6.23, but dom0 is not yet and I've heard no plans about when it will be. And indeed some patches seem to be applied (see below). But i still don't see any xen options in menuconfig. Maybe the 2.6.22 xen patches are for i386 only and not ported to amd64 yet? Based on the output those patches do not contain Xen. I don't know what they are for. Gabor -- - MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to compile a recent xen dom0 kernel on amd64?
Gabor Gombas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 01:42:22AM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: What is the current situation with xen on amd64? the debian/sid archive keeps no linux-image-2.6.22-2-xen-amd64, and I was not able to compile a 2.6.22 dom0 kernel with debian xen patches applied on my amd64 system. IMHO there is no upstream support for kernels newer than 2.6.18. The last official opinion I heard was that either Xen gets integrated into the Linux kernel or support for Xen will be dropped from Debian, since there are now other free alternatives that are fully supported on recent kernels. Support for domU is already merged into 2.6.23, but dom0 is not yet and I've heard no plans about when it will be. Linus only merged in some i386 domU xen patches. The option isn't even available to compile it on amd64 not to mention that it would work at all. I guess it will still take a few kernels before we can use upstream source. And indeed some patches seem to be applied (see below). But i still don't see any xen options in menuconfig. Maybe the 2.6.22 xen patches are for i386 only and not ported to amd64 yet? Based on the output those patches do not contain Xen. I don't know what they are for. The newest working patches I know are from RedHat and for 2.6.20. They also have 2.6.21 but I heard that were instable. Gabor MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to compile a recent xen dom0 kernel on amd64?
On 13/09/2007 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: And indeed some patches seem to be applied (see below). But i still don't see any xen options in menuconfig. Maybe the 2.6.22 xen patches are for i386 only and not ported to amd64 yet? Based on the output those patches do not contain Xen. I don't know what they are for. The newest working patches I know are from RedHat and for 2.6.20. They also have 2.6.21 but I heard that were instable. Are these patches for amd64 DomU only, or for Dom0 as well? And where do I get these patches? Do I need to use the redhat linux sources and patch them with the redhat xen patches, or how is it supposed to work? I guess that make-kpkg may be used from the linux source anyway, as it works with upstream linux sources as well. greetings, jonas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to compile a recent xen dom0 kernel on amd64?
Jonas Meurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 13/09/2007 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: And indeed some patches seem to be applied (see below). But i still don't see any xen options in menuconfig. Maybe the 2.6.22 xen patches are for i386 only and not ported to amd64 yet? Based on the output those patches do not contain Xen. I don't know what they are for. The newest working patches I know are from RedHat and for 2.6.20. They also have 2.6.21 but I heard that were instable. Are these patches for amd64 DomU only, or for Dom0 as well? I386/amd64 dom0/U. For the (usualy) working ones: http://hg.et.redhat.com/kernel/ And for development versions: http://hg.et.redhat.com/kernel-dev/ And where do I get these patches? Do I need to use the redhat linux sources and patch them with the redhat xen patches, or how is it supposed to work? You have to clone a mercurial repository. Includes a full kernel tree so prepare to spend some time and bandwith. I guess that make-kpkg may be used from the linux source anyway, as it works with upstream linux sources as well. yes. greetings, jonas MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
forcedeth wierdness
any thoughts why a forcedeth (nvidia) onboard nic would be detected, but not presented as a usable card? i also have an onboard sky2 card which seems to work fine. i have tried disabling things in the bios but to no avail. im using a winbond motherboard. i can give more detailed outputs if needed. forcedeth has worked fine for me on other mboards *shrug* Dean -- http://fragfest.com.au -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: forcedeth wierdness
Dean Hamstead wrote: any thoughts why a forcedeth (nvidia) onboard nic would be detected, but not presented as a usable card? i also have an onboard sky2 card which seems to work fine. i have tried disabling things in the bios but to no avail. im using a winbond motherboard. i can give more detailed outputs if needed. forcedeth has worked fine for me on other mboards *shrug* Dean Hi Dean I'm not sure this is the same problem, but I remember having problems with asus nforce boards and forcedeth until I disabled firewire (IEEE1394) in the BIOS. If that doesn't help you may need to provide some more information like log output from the card initialization and the output of ifconfig -a . Cheers, Jonas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
