[Pkg-xen-devel] oldschool xen kernel on sid

[Thomas Goirand]

Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 02:22:49PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> Would this kernel work as a dom0 in Lenny?
> 
> No. It needs a newer hypervisor.
> 
>>                 Can you also provide the source package so I can
>> recompile it with the Lenny gcc/libs?
> 
> The patch is there. You can apply it on the latest upstream and build a
> kernel with.
> 
> Bastian

Hi Bastian,

I tried to recompile in Lenny, and I installed the following packages:

libxen-dev_3.4.0-2_amd64.deb
libxenstore3.0_3.4.0-2_amd64.deb
linux-image-2.6.31.5_2.6.31.5-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb
xen-docs-3.4_3.4.0-2_all.deb
xen-hypervisor-3.4-amd64_3.4.0-2_amd64.deb
xenstore-utils_3.4.0-2_amd64.deb
xen-utils-3.4_3.4.0-2_amd64.deb
xen-utils-common_3.3.1-2_all.deb

but when I try to start xend, it says:

xen.lowlevel.xc.Error: (1, 'Internal error', 'Could not obtain handle on
privileged command interface (2 = No such file or directory)')

as if my kernel was NOT Xen dom0 capable. But I've checked my .config,
and I did switch the correct flag(s). Also, there's a /proc/xen (but
empty). What did I miss here?

Thanks for your time, and help.

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Thomas