[Rhel4kernels-users] RHEL4 Kernels Project and Xen

[Danilo Gimenez]

Hi folks.

I intend to use Xen with RHEL4 in order to create testing environments
for RAC 10g databases. The problem is, I kind of got stuck on how doing
this.

These are the steps I did:

1. Download packages from oss.oracle.com, Project RHEL4 Kernels
   * kernel-2.6.9-11.0.0.10.3.EL.src.rpm
   * kernel-2.6.9-11.0.0.10.3.EL.i686.rpm
   * kernel-devel-2.6.9-11.0.0.10.3.EL.i686.rpm
   * kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-11.0.0.10.3.EL.i686.rpm 
   * kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-11.0.0.10.3.EL.i686.rpm

2. Install all of these packages
   * rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-11.0.0.10.3.EL.src.rpm
   * rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-11.0.0.10.3.EL.i686.rpm
   * rpm -ivh kernel-devel-2.6.9-11.0.0.10.3.EL.i686.rpm
   * rpm -ivh kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-11.0.0.10.3.EL.i686.rpm 
   * rpm -ivh kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-11.0.0.10.3.EL.i686.rpm

3. Reboot the machine

4. Download Xen source code
   * wget -N -q http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen
/downloads/xen-2.0.7-src.tgz
   * tar xzf xen-2.0.7-src.tgz -C /opt

5. Try to "make install" for Xen on top of
   kernel-2.6.9-11.0.0.10.3.EL.i686
   * cd /opt/xen-2.0
   * rm -rf freebsd-5.3-xen-sparse
   * rm -rf linux-2.4.30-xen-sparse
   * rm -rf netbsd-2.0-xen-sparse
   * make install

Well... this is where I got. After some processing, "make" shows this:
   Cannot find linux-2.6.11.tar.bz2 in path .:..
   wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/
   linux-2.6.11.tar.bz2-O./linux-2.6.11.tar.bz2

And then it starts to download the file above. As far I can imagine,
this is not the right file. My guess is, I do not want this download to
happen, instead I want "make install" to be applied on top of
kernel-2.6.9-11.0.0.10.3.EL.src (/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES) or on kernel-
devel-2.6.9-11.0.0.10.3.EL (/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-11.0.0.10.3.EL-
i686)...

In /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES, there are many *.patch files,
linux-2.6.9.tar.bz2 and patch-2.6.9-ac11.bz2. But there is no
linux-2.6.11.tar.bz2 file.

Will some of you gurus help me on this?

- First of all, am I doing it right?
  Do these steps seem to be the right ones?
- May linux-2.6.9.tar.bz2 be patched in order to get an
  linux-2.6.11.tar.bz2? How do I do that?
  Or, where can I find a simple HOWTO?

Thanks in advance,
Danilo Gimenez