Hi all.
I’m trying to build the latest XEN 4.0.0 from the tarball in xen.org.
After resolve the dependencies, I finalled compiled the xen kernel.
But the problem, it is not making the intrd for booting (and it is not suposed to do 
), it just comments the following on the README source:
Depending on your config, you may need to use ‘mkinitrd’ to create
an initial ram disk, just like a native system e.g.
# depmod 2.6.18-xen
# mkinitrd -v -f --with=aacraid --with=sd_mod --with=scsi_mod initrd-2.6.18-xen.img 2.6.18-xenOther systems may requires the use of ‘mkinitramfs’ to create the
ram disk.
# depmod 2.6.18-xen
# mkinitramfs -o initrd-2.6.18-xen.img 2.6.18-xen
Well, after change the correct version using mkinitrd command doesn’t worked, errors about “-- -” so I aplied the command
mkinitrd -v -f “aacraid sd_mod scsi_mod” initrd-2.6.31.13.img 2.6.31.13
Kernel image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.13
Initrd image: /boot/initrd-2.6.31.13
Kernel Modules: <not available>
Could not find map initrd-2.6.31.13.img/boot/System.map, please specify a correct file with -M.
So I hard linked the system map created on the compilation process (strange the -M doesn’t work to real name or softlink). and then:
mkinitrd -v -f “aacraid sd_mod scsi_mod” -M /boot/System.map initrd-2.6.31.13.img 2.6.31.13
Kernel image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.12-0.2-default
Initrd image: /boot/initrd-2.6.31.12-0.2-default
Kernel Modules: <not available>
/lib/mkinitrd/setup/02-start.sh: line 30: initrd-2.6.31.13.img/etc/sysconfig/kernel: No such file or directory
/lib/mkinitrd/setup/02-start.sh: line 36: initrd-2.6.31.13.img/etc/sysconfig/kernel: No such file or directory
/lib/mkinitrd/setup/11-storage.sh: line 245: initrd-2.6.31.13.img/etc/fstab: No such file or directory
/lib/mkinitrd/setup/11-storage.sh: line 266: /dev/shm/.1ZLJHg/pipe: No such file or directory
find: `initrd-2.6.31.13.img/lib/modules’: No such file or directory
Root device: /dev/root (mounted on initrd-2.6.31.13.img as reiserfs)
Resume device: /dev/system/swap
Device root not found in sysfs
Even without modules (-f) fails with the same messages.
mkinitrd -v -M /boot/System.map initrd-2.6.31.13.img 2.6.31.13
Kernel image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.12-0.2-default
Initrd image: /boot/initrd-2.6.31.12-0.2-default
Kernel Modules:
/lib/mkinitrd/setup/02-start.sh: line 30: initrd-2.6.31.13.img/etc/sysconfig/kernel: No such file or directory
/lib/mkinitrd/setup/02-start.sh: line 36: initrd-2.6.31.13.img/etc/sysconfig/kernel: No such file or directory
/lib/mkinitrd/setup/11-storage.sh: line 245: initrd-2.6.31.13.img/etc/fstab: No such file or directory
/lib/mkinitrd/setup/11-storage.sh: line 266: /dev/shm/.6YRRTE/pipe: No such file or directory
find: `initrd-2.6.31.13.img/lib/modules’: No such file or directory
Root device: /dev/root (mounted on initrd-2.6.31.13.img as reiserfs)
Resume device: /dev/system/swap
Device root not found in sysfs
So what can I do? I really want to test the pastrough and snapshot new features in XEN, since i really start to hate vmware eating all resources with more than 1 vm (I know, there is VirtualBox, but I used Vmware first since you can record videos and for portability).
I already used XEN 3.4 a lot in my own labs inside my laptop, (since I learned how to use virtual network in nat mode), and since is the default hypervisor on the job (we are migrating the lasts Vmware vms !!! cool!!! >:) ) and I really really love XEN (is amazing, 4 vms, 1 host in a laptop turion 64 x2 with just 3GB ram!!! and my processor is not flaming!!!).
So, I’m not a developer, not newbie in linux, but recently changed to openSuSE (I came from ubuntu world), and I know it has its own tricks I must learn.
Please, some one can help?
Thanks in the advance.
Regards.