On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Ken Dechick kend@medent.com wrote:
I have actual need to build a custom kernel.(Have to change Preemption model to 'server' and turn off Preempt the big kernel lock, ect) I have heard bits and pieces about these changing defaults in newer kernels but I haven't investigated that yet.
This of course is not a problem at all, made my needed changes to the source code and successfully build both the standard and the Xen kernel using the rpmbuild guide from this site found here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel
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to make a long story short, mt 2.6.18-194 kernel has no available source rpms that I can use for my custom kernel.
Do you mean no src.rpm of your custom kernel? If so, rpmbuild -bs will build it.
Can anyone point me to a source package for kmod-kvm that will work with my 2.6.18-194.11.4.el5 kernel base?? I have spent 2 full days digging through packages on the web and I cannot come up with anything.
kmod-kvm is built from kvm and it is kernel version independent, kABI-tracking. This means that, if your custom kernel is kABI compatible with the distro kernel, the kvm module will continue to work.
Akemi