| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/xen.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | xen |
| Description: | Open-source type-1 or baremetal hypervisor |
| Upstream URL: | https://xenproject.org/ |
| Keywords: | hypervisor virtualization xen |
| Licenses: | GPL2 |
| Submitter: | sergej |
| Maintainer: | Refutationalist |
| Last Packager: | Refutationalist |
| Votes: | 185 |
| Popularity: | 0.63 |
| First Submitted: | 2009-11-09 11:22 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2024-09-20 00:31 (UTC) |
Thank you for your work, FFY00.
I'm currently out in the woods with limited internet. I'll be back sometime next week, at which point I'll clean up outstanding changes in my repo and push it to AUR. I didn't care about the docs package, but I can re-add that.
I'll also talk to the QEMU maintainers about adding the configure arg for Xen to QEMU, and seeing what they're doing upstream about GCC and python changes. I'll also likely push my PVH kernel to AUR.
@FFY00: The package I'm working on is very much based on your work and is intended as an interim solution while you are doing things properly. I tried to make that clear in my notes. If I have given any other impression, it is not intended and I apologize.
I had a personal itch to scratch and I shared my work. I wasn't figuring on much of anything beyond that, so the formatting changes didn't really matter to me very much. You're welcome to use what I've done or dismiss it entirely.
There were several things that blocked me from updating the package, you should be able to find the discussion below. If you think you are able to do it package the new version properly, please show me a PKGBUILD and I'll disown.
@Refutationalist Unfortunately, it's difficult to diff your changes against this PKGBUILD because of all the formatting changes. Do you plan on rebasing your changes on top of this pkg, or do you consider your work to be a hard fork at this point?
Here is the minimal diff I came up with on top of this PKGBUILD to get 4.13.1 building with latest GCC (& drop the python2 dep): https://github.com/sl4mmy/docker-aur-xen/blob/master/aur-xen_PKGBUILD.patch. The two patches for GCC 10 compile fixes can be found here: https://github.com/sl4mmy/docker-aur-xen/blob/master/gcc-10-fixes.patch, and here: https://github.com/sl4mmy/docker-aur-xen/blob/master/gcc-10-ipxe-fixes.patch.
It would be great if we could get this pkg updated to 4.13.1, including all of your additional improvements (stubdom, rundir, firmware hooks, etc.).
@ntegan: that's good to hear. I'll probably want to look at changing the GRUB scripts then to look for xen.gz instead of a versioned file.
My justification is that I use either syslinux or direct EFI boot, and having to change my settings on every revision is suboptimal. Also, since other kernels aren't versioned in the repos, it seemed a bit more Arch-like to me.
In the meantime, since I first posted I've made a couple of bugfixes. I moved ipxe out of _stubdom_sources as it's not for stubdom, set rundir, and then added a hook to extract firmware from intel-ucode so xen EFI can use it. I'm working on an AMD hook.
Thanks for the updated PKGBUILD, @Refutationalist.
Only thing I had to change for GRUB to generate the menu entry was to move my
/boot/xen.gz to /boot/xen-4.13.1.gz, to match what the grub menu entry generator was looking for.
I found that the gcc upgrade to 10 broke my compile, too. The only reason I needed to compile is that nettle upgraded and requires xen to be recompiled, but I could only get xen 4.13.0 to compile, not 4.13.1. I downgraded gcc back to the last version of 9 and was able to recompile for the newer version of nettle.
I'm still on kernel 5.5.13-arch2 as it was the latest I could get HVM networking to work (I run OPNSense as a HVM).
My server motherboard doesn't have UEFI, so I'm only doing BIOS boot with Grub2.
Thanks for the repo. I will certainly check it out!
Oh, also, I haven't tested the grub bits at all since, as I don't use it.
Most recent upgrade of one of my dom0s broke this package for me. Also, recompiling from this package or any other PKGBUILD failed under GCC 10.1. I decided to look into it as I needed this machine up and running.
While I was looking for solutions, I noticed that there was a tarball for 4.13.1 available. I found some patches for GCC 10 via Fedora, but there were other simple changes needed for 10.1. It was trial and error, "make it go" hacking rather than anything robust, but it does compile and run.
It's a kitbash of a couple PKGBUILDs with some changes to simplify things. It's available here: https://github.com/refutationalist/saur/tree/master/xen
I've tested it on exactly one system: the one I needed to run. It's successfully booted Arch in PV and OpenBSD in HVM. Haven't tested PVH yet, but that's next. At this point, I thought more eyes were better.
Elsewhere in the repo is a version of qemu from the repos that has been modified to include xen, if that's needed.
I've been testing different kernels with dom0 under Xen. I found that kernel 5.6.0 does not work, but 5.5.13-arch2-1 does. I will be looking through the other kernel versions and comparing the kernel compile configs to determine if something changed.
Kernel 5.5.13-arch2-a as a dom0 under Xen 4.13.0 is working, so far.
Pinned Comments
Refutationalist commented on 2024-05-22 22:08 (UTC) (edited on 2024-05-23 00:07 (UTC) by Refutationalist)
As of now (2024-22-05) Xen with stubdom doesn't build because of a problem in the imported code. Been this way for about two weeks. Anyone else seeing this behavior?
Also, there is a lot of work happening on Xen in my development repo, thanks to @Serus. Check it out at: https://github.com/refutationalist/saur