Running Xen-4.0.1-rc6 with kernel 2.6.32.16 on Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64 installationNote

【Install Required Packages】

$ sudo apt-get install bcc bin86 gawk bridge-utils iproute libcurl3 libcurl4-openssl-dev bzip2 module-init-tools transfig tgif texinfo texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended texlive-fonts-extra texlive-fonts-recommended pciutils-dev mercurial build-essential make gcc libc6-dev zlib1g-dev python python-dev python-twisted libncurses5-dev patch libvncserver-dev libsdl-dev libjpeg62-dev iasl libbz2-dev e2fslibs-dev git-core uuid-dev ocaml libx11-dev

###　Necessary package for 64bit version of Debian/Ubuntu
$ sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib

【Xen Paravirt_Ops Linux kernel – 2.6.32.16 installation】

$ cd /usr/src
$ sudo git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git linux-2.6-xen
$ cd ./linux-2.6-xen
$ sudo git reset –hard
$ sudo git checkout -b xen/stable-2.6.32.x origin/xen/stable-2.6.32.x
$ sudo git pull      //Update to the latest kernel revision//
$ sudo make menuconfig      //See the attached kernel config file for details//
$ sudo make -j 4
$ sudo make modules -j 4
$ sudo make modules_install install
$ sudo depmod -a
$ sudo mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32.16 2.6.32.16
$ sudo vim /boot/grub/grub.cfg

menuentry 'Xen-4.x, with Linux 2.6.32.16' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,1)'
multiboot (hd0,1)/boot/xen-4.0.gz dummy=dummy
module  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.16 dummy=dummy root=UUID=XXX ro nomodeset
module  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32.16
}

【Xen-4.x Hypersior installation】

$ cd /usr/src
$ sudo hg clone http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-4.0-testing.hg
$ cd ./xen-4.0-testing.hg
$ sudo make xen -j 4
$ sudo make tools -j 4
$ sudo make stubdom -j 4
$ sudo make install-xen
$ sudo make install-tools PYTHON_PREFIX_ARG=
$ sudo make install-stubdom
$ sudo update-rc.d xend defaults 20 21
$ sudo update-rc.d xendomains defaults 21 20
$ sudo reboot

【Up-to-date the latest changes of Xen-4.x Hypersior】

$ cd xen-4.0-testing.hg
$ make clean
$ hg pull
$ hg update

Reference:
http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/Xen4.0
http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps