[Fedora-xen] F11 rawhide install url

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 09:58:18PM -0700, Boris Derzhavets wrote:
> Could you remind F12 rawhide location on the Net for --location key for virt-install command line to test on 64-bit .
> 

For example: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/i386/os

-- Pasi

> Thanks.
> Boris.
> 
> --- On Sun, 8/23/09, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi> wrote:
> 
> From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi>
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] BZIP2 and LZMA support patch for Xen PV domU bootloader
> To: "Mark McLoughlin" <markmc at redhat.com>
> Cc: fedora-xen at redhat.com
> Date: Sunday, August 23, 2009, 12:45 PM
> 
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:04:09PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 07:02:12PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 19:44 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 05:05:17PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 18:41 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > # CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP is not set
> > > > > > # CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2 is not set
> > > > > > CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA=y
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > OK, so the problem is the rawhide kernel is LZMA compressed. Wasn't this
> > > > > > changed back to GZIP earlier? 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks for pointing that out, see:
> > > > > 
> > > > >   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515831
> > > > > 
> > > > > It got disabled on a branch for the F12 Alpha release, but never got
> > > > > disabled on the devel/ branch. Should be fixed now.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks. Now I'll just wait for the next kernel build.. :)
> > > > 
> > > > (or try applying the patch Chris sent to support BZIP2 and LZMA for Xen PV bootloader).
> > > 
> > > Testing Chris's patch would certainly be a good idea. LZMA will come
> > > back again in Fedora 13, so we should make sure to have the patch in
> > > good shape by then
> > > 
> > 
> > I actually already 'ported' the patch to Xen 3.4.1 and made sure it
> > compiles OK. I've included it (and extra gcc 4.4.0 compilefix) to this
> > email, and also sent them to xen-devel.
> > 
> > atm I'm trying to make the patch work/apply with Fedora xen-3.4.1-1 src.rpm ..
> > and sorting out some fedora/rpm specific compilation failure..
> > 
> 
> Here's updated patch that actually works. I added it to xen-3.4.1-1.src.rpm
> and verified the resulting rpms are able to boot lzma compressed kernels.
> 
> It's still not final patch, since the stubdom/pvgrub bzip2/lzma support is
> not yet included in this patch (until the proper method for Makefile hacks
> is determined upstream).
> 
> -- Pasi
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