[Pkg-xen-devel] linux patch package

[Goswin von Brederlow]

"Angel L. Mateo" <amateo at um.es> writes:

> Hello,
>
> 	I am trying to install xen in a debian box. I have installed your
> packages for etch version. In that package, in the documentation, in the
> README.Debian.gz file, you say:
>
> "...The only thing we can give you is the patch, which is included in
> the linux-patch-xen package.  You are expected to install this package,
> download a 2.6.12 kernel from kernel.org (this is the version supported
> by xen right now. The patch will make it a 2.6.12.6+xen kernel) and roll
> your own kernel..."
>
> 	Unfortunately, I haven't found this package anywhere. I have also look
> for it in the debian package archives, but I haven't found it. All that
> I have found is the package kernel-patch-xen, under unstable version of
> debian, but it is a patch for kernel 2.6.11, not 2.6.12 as you mention
> in the documentation.
>
> 	Where can I found that patch package?

The newer debian kernels have xen support merged in so you don't need
a patch package anymore. Just get the latest linux-2.6 source and
build it or just install the precompiled xen kernel image from debian.

MfG
        Goswin