Rebuilding 3.1 & 3.0 Linux Kernel in Ubuntu style to support PV-on-HVM

Posted by dba477 on Nov 9, 2011 11:36 PM EDT
Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris; By Boris Derzhavets 		Mail this story
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Stock kernel for Oneiric (3.0.X.Y) has the same Xen configuration as 3.1. In meantime I had to pass through procedure bellow with intend to benefit from PV-on-HVM feature providing by Xen 4.1.X Hypervisor and properly built 3.0 or 3.1 linux kernel. I follow [1] step by step updating config.flavour.pvhvm as required to perform kernel rebuild.

There is another attractive option – just add driver xen-platform-pci.ko to initrd.img as post installation procedure. Then reboot with xen_platform_pci=1. I choosed kernel rebuild as option following core development [2]

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