Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-02-06 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-01-24 23:34:44, schrieb Martin Marcher: aptitude install xen-linx-image-2.6-xen-amd64 no i'm not joking, those with the hypervisor and ioemu and i was set, I had the 2 or 3 minor updates since etch release and all of those kernels worked fine. I am using the

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-02-06 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-01-24 21:02:02, schrieb Ted Hilts: Also, I was talking about kernel versions higher than yours (up in the twenties where yours was 18) and 32 bit. But whether the CPU is 32 bit Sorry, but I am using the latest linux-image-2.6.23-1-xen-686 from Unstable/Sid which I have tried to

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-02-06 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-01-25 12:11:35, schrieb Martin Marcher: Any specific reason you need a newer kernel? (Again) I wouldn't do that on a server machine. Also xen patches are always a couple of versions behind - at least in my experience - so they only apply cleanly to the version stated on xensource Yes,

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-02-02 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Michael D. Norwick wrote: Michael D. Norwick wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: I'm trying to get started with Xen. Still trying to build a Xen kernel with or without the dfsg. Found this though; http://help.lockergnome.com/linux/build-XEN-make-kpkg-ftopict384180.html Michael Still trying to

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-30 Thread Martin Marcher
Rick Thomas wrote: I sincerely hope that the lack of Xen support in Lenny is a temporary thing that will be fixed before the first Beta release.  Does anybody know what's the problem? The problem is that xen is quite behind with kernels, afaik it's a HUGE patch to apply and the most recent

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-30 Thread Rick Thomas
Well, that's too bad. Is this in any way related to the error messages I got when I tried to do aptitude update aptitude dist-upgrade on my Xen/Etch test machine? I'm particularly concerned about libc6-xen being marked broken. For what it's worth, my other Etch machines navigated the

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 30, 2008, at 12:03 PM, Martin Marcher wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: I sincerely hope that the lack of Xen support in Lenny is a temporary thing that will be fixed before the first Beta release. Does anybody know what's the problem? The problem is that xen is quite behind with kernels,

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-30 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:59:49PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jan 30, 2008, at 12:03 PM, Martin Marcher wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: I sincerely hope that the lack of Xen support in Lenny is a temporary thing that will be fixed before the first Beta release. Does anybody know what's the

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-30 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Michael D. Norwick wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: I'm trying to get started with Xen. Thanks! Rick I don't know if you've been here: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_xen3_debian, but, I too am trying to build a XEN enabled kernel using linux 2.6.23.9. This link looked straightforward

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-25 Thread Martin Marcher
Ted Hilts wrote: Also, I was talking about kernel versions higher than yours (up in the twenties where yours was 18) and 32 bit. But whether the CPU is 32 bit debian stable highest version number is 2.6.18 so there is no way to get a stable distro with a higher version number (stable as in:

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 24, 2008, at 8:19 AM, Martin Marcher wrote: Jozef Peterka wrote: Hi all, I might be rushing in to conversation, but I will try to install Debian Etch and make it Dom0 this very weekend. I really look forward to it - although with a little hope to success :) Nevermind, I wanted

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-24 Thread Jozef Peterka
Hi all, I might be rushing in to conversation, but I will try to install Debian Etch and make it Dom0 this very weekend. I really look forward to it - although with a little hope to success :) Nevermind, I wanted wish you good luck with xen, and the important is let everybody here know what

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-24 Thread Martin Marcher
Jozef Peterka wrote: Hi all, I might be rushing in to conversation, but I will try to install Debian Etch and make it Dom0 this very weekend. I really look forward to it - although with a little hope to success :) Nevermind, I wanted wish you good luck with xen, and the important is let

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-24 Thread Ted Hilts
Martin My reply is at the very bottom. Ted Martin Marcher wrote: Jozef Peterka wrote: Hi all, I might be rushing in to conversation, but I will try to install Debian Etch and make it Dom0 this very weekend. I really look forward to it - although with a little hope to success :) Nevermind,

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-24 Thread Martin Marcher
On Thursday 24 January 2008 17:13 Ted Hilts wrote: Martin What is the exact kernel version you are running on both machines and what are their CPU designations? The problems in the past have not been with the distribution but with various kernels. Did you compile your systems from source

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-24 Thread Ted Hilts
Martin Thanks for your information, you will find my reply further down. Martin Marcher wrote: On Thursday 24 January 2008 17:13 Ted Hilts wrote: Martin What is the exact kernel version you are running on both machines and what are their CPU designations? The problems in the past have

Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-23 Thread Rick Thomas
I'm trying to get started with Xen. I've installed Lenny and a bunch of packages that looked interesting and mentioned Xen in their descriptions. But there does not seem to be a Xen enabled kernel available. Is Xen built-in to the Lenny kernels, or what? I plan to spend tonite with my

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-23 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Rick Thomas wrote: I'm trying to get started with Xen. Thanks! Rick I don't know if you've been here: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_xen3_debian, but, I too am trying to build a XEN enabled kernel using linux 2.6.23.9. This link looked straightforward and possible. I have not

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-23 Thread Ted Hilts
Rick My response at very bottom. Ted Rick Thomas wrote: I'm trying to get started with Xen. I've installed Lenny and a bunch of packages that looked interesting and mentioned Xen in their descriptions. But there does not seem to be a Xen enabled kernel available. Is Xen built-in to the