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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:29:20
Message-Id: a3d993cf159d7648936e9d3bed79b9f7.squirrel@www.antarean.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer? by Pandu Poluan
1 On Thu, March 24, 2011 2:10 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote:
2 > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 19:57, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
3 >> On Thu, March 24, 2011 1:19 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote:
4 >>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 18:21, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
5 >>>> On Thu, March 24, 2011 10:36 am, Pandu Poluan wrote:
6 >>>>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 15:32, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org>
7 >>>>> wrote:
8 >>>
9 >>> -- snip --
10 >>>
11 >>>>>> Hmm... I don't use kernel-modules in my Xen domu's (All are PV). I
12 >>>>>> wonder
13 >>>>>> if compiling them into the kernel might help.
14 >>>>>> Or, try loading the modules listed above and see if that helps. (Not
15 >>>>>> sure
16 >>>>>> if you can see an immediate change though)
17 >>>>>>
18 >>>>>
19 >>>>> Can't hurt to try, now that I've gotten a bootable kernel. Can always
20 >>>>> fallback to the previous one.
21 >>>>
22 >>>> Let me know how that goes.
23 >>>>
24 >>>
25 >>> Compiling all the <M> into <*> still results the same *sigh*
26 >>
27 >> Ok, then we'll need to look into things that are not added at all.
28 >>
29 >> The following might be the one you're missing:
30 >> CONFIG_XEN_KEYBOARD=y
31 >>
32 >> It is in my config, but not in yours.
33 >>
34 > Most likely the missing support for initramfs.
35 >
36 > The first 8 or 9 attempts I compile *without* initramfs support, and
37 > the same thing happened.
38
39 If you disable modules-support, you should not require an initramfs.
40 Simply ignore that part and remove any reference to it from the config.
41
42 > Anyways, I'm currently reverting to a snapshot before kernel
43 > compilation, and am trying to compile xen-sources
44
45 Ok, good luck with that.
46
47 Did you try to add the "XEN_KEYBOARD" option to your config?
48
49 > I hope you don't mind waiting. It's already 20:00 here, and now I have
50 > to go home.
51
52 Don't mind waiting, let me know tomorrow when you have tested :)
53
54 > Anyways, thanks for guiding me :)
55 >
56 > (Will resume attempts tomorrow at 10:00)
57
58 Not sure which timezone you are in, but I'm in Europe, so it might take a
59 while for me to respond in the morning :)
60
61 --
62 Joost

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