Xen in Hardy

[Matthew Grant]

Yep,

Been running Hardy Xen Dom0 here, solid as a rock, on top of gutsy
gibbon.  I  downloaded source and backported Xen.  Just added patch
here, and recompiled, now DomU is running sweetly too!  

I have been running Debian Etch 2.6.18 DomU (maintained source tree),
and also have a 2.6.25 paravirt Ops DomU working as well.

Here are few tips:

Hard drives are /dev/xvda1, /dev/xvda2 etc.  Edit /etc/fstab
accordingly.

Console is /dev/xvc0 - Just edit /etc/inittab to run 1 getty on console,
and comment out all the rest, add console=xvc0 to 'extra' line in domain
config file in /etc/xen.

Also, install udev in your DomUs, and create a minimal /dev to go
underneath it on /dev so that you get console messages after init is
started.  The console on the kernel config line will give you a console
while an initrd is loaded.

To get a linux 2.6.25 Xen kernel working, strip the vmlinux in the top
of the source tree after compile and compress:

$ strip vmlinux -o vmlinux-striped
$ gzip -c vmlinux-striped > vmlinuz

and use that as Xen kernel.  xm create cannot load a staright bzImage
kernel yet.

Networking goes sweetly as I use my own network configuration package.

The Hard source is now on track!

Cheers,

Matthew Grant

PS: If you are wondering, I am a Debian Maintainer
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