Re: Xen 3.2.0 Packages

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 08:53:12AM +0900, Curt Sampson wrote:
> On 2008-01-22 19:17 +0100 (Tue), Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 06:34:30PM +0900, Curt Sampson wrote:
> > > Is anybody working on upgrading the xentools3 and xenkernel3 packages in
> > > pkgsrc for Xen 3.2.0?
> > 
> > I've not looked at it yet. It may require some adjustements on the OS
> > side too ...
> 
> Any idea what these might be?
> 
> I built, by hand, a Xen 3.2.0 kernel, following the "instructions" in
> the pkgsrc xenkernel3 Makefile, and that kernel seems to work fine
> (albeit without having tested domUs yet) on a Core 2 Duo system, except
> for the parallel IDE speed problem (which I will describe in a separate
> post). I have a suspicion this may be true of an AMD x64 system as well;
> I'll be testing this tomorrow.

Ho, if a dom0 kernel boots then nothing more may ne needed. I was thinking
about differences in the way some hypercalls work, or new mandatory hypercalls.

> 
> Looking at what the xentools3 package provides (extra scripts, some
> extra python package dependencies that aren't mentioned as necessary in
> the Xen3 user's guidde list of requirements), it appears to me that it's
> easier to upgrade the package than to try to build the tools straight
> from the Xen sources. So that's the approach I'm going to look at.
> 
> Given the level of differences between Xen 3.1 and 3.2 (to the point
> where the 3.1 tools don't work on 3.2), it seems fairly obvious to me
> that we want to start including the minor version number in the package
> names (at lest for xen 3), and also generated files where we can do
> this. So unless anybody has any objections, I am going to start with
> this:
> 
>     1. Rename xenkernel3 and xentools3 to xenkernel31 and xentools31.

When I upgarded to xen 3.1, I renamed xentools30 to xentools3, I can now
see it was a mistake.

> 
>     2. Change xenkernel2 and xenkernel31 to generate kernel files named
>     "xen2.gz" and "xen-3.1.2.gz" (and of course similar for the debug
>     kernels).
> 
>     3. Add a xenkernel32 package that generates a kernel named "xen-3.2.0.gz"
> 
>     4. Add notes to the DESCR files for xen 3 packages noting that the
>     3.1 and 3.2 tools are not compatable.

This is fine with me.

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