On Wednesday 22 February 2006 09:58am, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 21:53 -0800, Adam Huda wrote: > > As far as the xennet modules, I'm guessing I need to download the > > kernel source, build the xennet module and copy it over. Will this work? > > The modules are in the actual package, but since you're booting with a > kernel outside the filesystem, it doesn't work so well. IMHO, the whole > model of booting a kernel from outside of the guest filesystem is pretty > broken as there's a fair bit of userspace which ends up depending pretty > closely on the kernel these days. Which is why I build a client kernel package that has everything but the kernel image itself in it (i.e. the modules). This gets installed inside the guest environment, satisfying the RPM dependency for other packages. Of course, this requires a little more work for the Gentoo clients, but the Red Hat and SUSE clients are perfectly happy. Would it make sense to ship such a package for the guests? -- Lamont R. Peterson <lamont@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Senior Instructor Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ] GPG Key fingerprint: F98C E31A 5C4C 834A BCAB 8CB3 F980 6C97 DC0D D409
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