[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#519149: Bug#519149: Logs

[Ian Campbell]

On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 11:58 -0500, William Pitcock wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 07:57 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > Oh, hang, on, you aren't trying to load a bzImage dom0 kernel are you?
> 
> Yes, I am. But, we need to make sure that squeeze ships with support for
> this.

Given the timescales involved it certainly will since Xen 3.4 is due
fairly soon (a matter of months I guess).

> I suppose I could feed the hypervisor the raw vmlinux binary on a
> production-like machine in the meantime. That should work. At least,
> that's what we do for non-pvops kernels.

Yes, you could even strip+gzip it, which is all the 2.6.18-xen build
system does. Or the attached bzexplode.c will even extract the necessary
bits from a bzImage for you if that's all you have.

Ian.
-- 
Ian Campbell

Since we're all here, we must not be all there.
		-- Bob "Mountain" Beck
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