[Pkg-xen-devel] using nvidia drivers on Xen kernel

[Ilya M. Slepnev]

Hi,

As I've heard, this is the only way to manage that:
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/493

Am I wrong?

       -- Ilya

Mihamina (R12y) Rakotomandimby wrote:
> Hi,
> At work, I must use the nvidia proprietary drivers.
> I also have to use Xen.
> As we now, nvidia module compilation fails when it detects a xen kernel (it's 
> not package level, it' the kind of 'configure' script embeded, I think).
> As far as I know, it only parses the config file of the _runnning_  kernel 
> (with uname -r).
> I did not try anything yet, but I ask for advice. What would be the solutions 
> to lie to the nvidia-kernel-source in order to make it compile on a Xen 
> kernel? Is it OK to fake the kernel config file with a non-Xen config? Or is 
> there another solution?
> I want to stay with packages, I dont want to install non packaged software, 
> and I'm running Sid.
>
> Thank you...
>
> I know it's "working" on some other distros:
> http://en.opensuse.org/Use_Nvidia_driver_with_Xen
>
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