Compilation of Xen on Gentoo

rsnfunky · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Dec 2007 Posts: 115

Dear All,

I wanted a virtual machine on my system. Hence zeroed on 2 options vmware and Xen. Vmware compilation kept failing and gave me exacly the same error that is mentioned here http://www.pubbs.net/gentoo/200909/74864/

Hence, I decided to install Xen. I got the Xen-Sources and compiled everything according to the documentation http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xen-guide.xml. The code listing 2.7 was not working so I did a regular make , make modules_install and make install.

The grub.conf was edited accordingly and kernel /boot/xen.gz + module /boot/kernel-2.6.18-xen root=/dev/hda2 was added.

When I booted in the new kernel after a few line of output (i could not read them as they scrolled very fast) the screen went blank and the system rebooted.

I tried the same thing with Gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r5 kernel. It also gave me the same issue.

Please advice what am I doing wrong.

My Hardware is -

1) CPU: AMD 64X2 6400+
2) Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-M68SM-S2L
3) Video Card: Ati Radeon 4770

Thanks a lot

Crenshaw · Guru Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 474 Location: Poland

If you just want to play with virtualization maybe try virtualbox? It has pain free && clickthrough interface.

As for Xen problem, try to check your dom0 kernel config again... (or post it here so someone can look at it)

rsnfunky · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Dec 2007 Posts: 115

Dear All,

As requested I have pasted the .config files

Xen -2.6.18: http://pastebin.com/m1af24c76
Gentoo-Sources-2.6.30-r5: http://pastebin.com/m36b1290f

The reason I require Virtualization is to run windows from a dedicated HDD without reboot.

Please advice.

rsnfunky · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Dec 2007 Posts: 115

There was an error in the .config of XEN. The DOM0 had not been selected

Please consider this closed.