On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Ken Dechick <kend at 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 (snip) > 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