Re: [CentOS-virt] custom Xen on custom kernel on CentOS 7

2018-02-28 Thread John Vetter
Yes, the binaries were correctly installed in /boot, but grub2-mkconfig wasn't creating an entry in grub.cfg for the particular combination of linux kernel and xen that I was looking for. Manually editing the grub.cfg appeared to work okay, but it was a pain because it gets over-written

Re: [CentOS-virt] custom Xen on custom kernel on CentOS 7

2018-02-28 Thread John Vetter
Thanks Sarah. Your suggestions 2) and 3) appear to have solved my problem. John     Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 12:48 PM From: "Sarah Newman" <s...@prgmr.com> To: "John Vetter" <john.vet...@mail.com> Cc: "Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS&

Re: [CentOS-virt] custom Xen on custom kernel on CentOS 7

2018-02-27 Thread John Vetter
Sorry reseding in text format.   Hi,   I'm trying to run an arbitrary Xen version (4.7.x) on a recent kernel (say, 4.13.x) on CentOS 7.   What is the recommended way for doing this? (I am new to Xen and virtualization).   I tried the following: 1. installed xen4centos. 2. built linux kernel

[CentOS-virt] custom Xen on custom kernel on CentOS 7

2018-02-27 Thread John Vetter
Hi,   I'm trying to run an arbitrary Xen version (4.7.x) on a recent kernel (say, 4.13.x) on CentOS 7.   What is the recommended way for doing this? (I am new to Xen and virtualization).   I tried the following: 1. installed xen4centos. 2. built linux kernel 4.13.x and installed it (using