XZD 2017.1 with Xen 4.9

[harias]

Hi,

First off, great effort, it works like a charm!!!
Unfortunately to my project, it comes with Xen 4.8 and I need at least 4.9, so, could you please tell me how to build XZD with that version?

Should I just change below line from 4.7 to 4.9 at the repo?
PREFERRED_VERSION_xen = "4.7-dw%"

Repo: https://github.com/dornerworks/meta-xzd/...o/xzd.conf

Thanks for your help.

[Nathan.Studer]

(09-02-2018, 01:05 PM)harias Wrote: Hi,

First off, great effort, it works like a charm!!!
Unfortunately to my project, it comes with Xen 4.8 and I need at least 4.9, so, could you please tell me how to build XZD with that version?

Should I just change below line from 4.7 to 4.9 at the repo?
PREFERRED_VERSION_xen = "4.7-dw%"

Repo: https://github.com/dornerworks/meta-xzd/...o/xzd.conf

Thanks for your help.

Unfortunately it's a little more complicated than that.  You could adjust the Yocto recipes to use the meta-virtualization recipe for Xen to get a 4.9 branch from upstream, but it's likely to break something else.

What feature in 4.9, which didn't exist in 4.7, do you plan to utilize?

     Nate

[harias]

Hi Nate, there are some VMI features on Xen 4.9 not present on 4.7 and that is the reason I need to move up.
I successfully built Xen 4.10 with Yocto using meta-virtualization so, do you think the DomU guests prepared in the XZD release (Linaro, FreeRTOS, Ubuntu) would run properly? Or there is something I need to tweak?

[Nathan.Studer]

They should run, but you may have to rebuild the kernel if the VMI features you are interested in require Dom0/DomU updates as well.

    Nate