<p dir="ltr">Hi Paul,</p>
<p dir="ltr">I suppose that I should warn you that I have not set up Xen for many years. Although I had made the initial attempts to introduce Xen to SBo, I lacked proper hardware and spare time, and Mario offered to take over. He showed me that he had delved deeper into Xen and I was glad to pass all my work to him. Since then Xen changed a lot and I forfeited any claims that I had contributed to the current slackbuilds in SBo.</p>

<p dir="ltr">According to my recollection,  dom0 and domU boot from the same kernel and initrd. I hope that it is correct and it is somehow useful.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Did you contact Mario for assistance? </p>
<p dir="ltr">Chris</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 18 Aug 2014 01:51, "Paul McCormack" <<a href="mailto:islandmarmot@gmail.com">islandmarmot@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

  
    
  
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    Hey Chris,<br>
    <br>
    I haven't been clear.. I did build the custom kernel with the
    scripts from the slackbuild after installing xen.<br>
    <br>
    I checked I was running domain0 by <br>
    <br>
    xl list<br>
    <br>
    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Name
      ID Mem VCPUs State Time(s)</p>
    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Domain-0
      0 512 4 r----- 9.2<br>
    </p>
    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><br>
      Its the domU I'm having trouble with. slackware installed on the
      image but then I can't create domU.<br>
    </p>
    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><br>
      When you mention a custom kernel I assume that you mean
      vmlinuz-3.10.17-xen?<br>
    </p>
    <br>
    is that correct?<br>
    <br>
    I just got this to work using debian wheezy, learneda lot,  but
    still haven't ruled out going back to slack... I just need a wee lie
    down first.. :)<br>
    <br>
    pretty freaky having 2 servers on one box.... ;)<br>
    <br>
    <div>On 8/17/2014 2:26 AM, Chris Abela
      wrote:<br>
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    <blockquote type="cite">
      <p dir="ltr">I suppose that you are referring to the INFO file.
        The required field is for dependencies.</p>
      <p dir="ltr">Chris Abela</p>
      <div class="gmail_quote">On 17 Aug 2014 01:07, "Paul McCormack"
        <<a href="mailto:islandmarmot@gmail.com" target="_blank">islandmarmot@gmail.com</a>>
        wrote:<br type="attribution">
        <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
          <p dir="ltr">I thought that was optional and if it it is
            required then shouldn't the slackbuild reflect that?</p>
          <div class="gmail_quote">On 16 Aug 2014 18:16, "Chris Abela"
            <<a href="mailto:kristofru@gmail.com" target="_blank">kristofru@gmail.com</a>>
            wrote:<br type="attribution">
            <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
              <p dir="ltr">Reading <a href="http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/14.1/system/xen/dom0/README.dom0" target="_blank">http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/14.1/system/xen/dom0/README.dom0</a>
                I understand that you need a custom kernel for dom0.</p>
              <p dir="ltr">Chris</p>
              <div class="gmail_quote">On 16 Aug 2014 16:51, "Paul
                McCormack" <<a href="mailto:islandmarmot@gmail.com" target="_blank">islandmarmot@gmail.com</a>>
                wrote:<br type="attribution">
                <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
                  <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">I'm
                      not sure that my first post made it through so the
                      humour may be lost but here goes.</p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><br>
                    </p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">I
                      have a dom0 running on Slackware64 14.1, 3.10.17
                      with multilib and updated using slackpkg
                      "Slackware64 14.1"</p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><br>
                    </p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">xl
                      list gives me</p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><br>
                    </p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Name
                      ID Mem VCPUs State Time(s)</p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Domain-0
                      0 512 4 r----- 9.2</p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><br>
                    </p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">I
                      built the domU image as per the slackbuild and I
                      can mount it. I modified the script to install
                      from a USB drive. This works but lilo did not run.</p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><br>
                    </p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">when
                      I try to create the domain xl panics..</p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><br>
                    </p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">In
                      the mydom config file the first two lines are</p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><br>
                    </p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">kernel
                      = "/boot/vmlinuz-xen"</p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">ramdisk
                      = "/boot/initrd-xen.gz"</p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><br>
                    </p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">So
                      I'm a little confused as I expected to see </p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><br>
                    </p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">kernel
                      = "/boot/vmlinuz"</p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">ramdisk
                      = "/boot/initrd.gz"</p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><br>
                    </p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Checking
                      the slackware.img /boot/vmlinuz ->
                      /boot/vmlinuz-huge-3.10.17</p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><br>
                    </p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">I
                      guess that the way forward is to either copy the
                      "*-xen" files to mnt/boot and or run mkinitrd.</p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><br>
                    </p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">I
                      think the former due to fact that we symlink
                      lib/modules/3.10.17-xen to lib/modules/3.10.17</p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><br>
                    </p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">ok
                      tried that - copied vmlinuz-xen and initrd-xem.gz
                      over to boot no change</p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><br>
                    </p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">xl
                      create -c mydom results in.........</p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><br>
                    </p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">-------------------------------------------------------------------</p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Parsing
                      config from mydom</p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">xc:
                      error: panic: xc_dom_bzimageloader.c:655:
                      xc_dom_probe_bzimage_kernel: boot protocol too old
                      (0203): Invalid kernel</p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">xc:
                      error: panic: xc_dom_core.c:621:
                      xc_dom_find_loader: no loader found: Invalid
                      kernel</p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">libxl:
                      error: libxl_dom.c:384:libxl__build_pv:
                      xc_dom_parse_image failed: No such file or
                      directory</p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">libxl:
                      error: libxl_create.c:900:domcreate_rebuild_done:
                      cannot (re-)build domain: -3</p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">-------------------------------------------------------------------</p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><br>
                    </p>
                    <p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">am
                      I heading in the right direction here? I've tried
                      searching and can't figure it out.</p>
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