Package Details: xen 4.19.1pre-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/xen.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: xen
Description: Open-source type-1 or baremetal hypervisor
Upstream URL: https://xenproject.org/
Keywords: hypervisor virtualization xen
Licenses: GPL2
Submitter: sergej
Maintainer: Refutationalist
Last Packager: Refutationalist
Votes: 185
Popularity: 0.68
First Submitted: 2009-11-09 11:22 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-09-20 00:31 (UTC)

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Refutationalist commented on 2024-05-22 22:08 (UTC) (edited on 2024-05-23 00:07 (UTC) by Refutationalist)

As of now (2024-22-05) Xen with stubdom doesn't build because of a problem in the imported code. Been this way for about two weeks. Anyone else seeing this behavior?

Also, there is a lot of work happening on Xen in my development repo, thanks to @Serus. Check it out at: https://github.com/refutationalist/saur

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Refutationalist commented on 2022-02-17 22:55 (UTC)

@milenus: I don't actually use stubdom, so I'm not surprised they're working right. They're only in by request. I haven't set up a test for them, just hoping to get feedback. Patch will be welcome, otherwise it'll be a bit.

milenus commented on 2022-02-17 12:22 (UTC)

Hello @Refutationalist, I just read how cool are stub domains and decided to try them. Successfully compiled and installed all four xen*.zst packages. I included in the HVM file device_model_stubdomain_override = 1 but when I try to create the VM it fails because of missing hvmloader. Can you please share some info how you use it?

Refutationalist commented on 2022-02-15 18:49 (UTC)

@Sven that's fixed now. I swear that was wrapped in an if statement at some point.

Sven commented on 2022-02-13 09:44 (UTC)

build_qemu=false makepkg -sc fails with rm: cannot remove '/home/skoehler/aur/xen/pkg/xen/usr/share/qemu-xen': No such file or directory

Refutationalist commented on 2022-02-06 14:16 (UTC)

Hello! Here's 4.16.0-2.

As I mentioned earlier, qemu and stubdom, if built, now generate packages rather than being built into xen itself. As a reminder, if you need stubdom, you can pass build_stubdom=true to makepkg. Similarly, passing build_qemu=false will prevent the package from building qemu-xen.

I am working on that OVMF patch, and should have it in shortly.

ska67 commented on 2022-01-30 16:58 (UTC)

The use of SDL requires the new dependency libxi, see https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/4938

@Sven Take a look into the PKGBUILD file, you will find the answer there :)

Sven commented on 2022-01-03 00:01 (UTC)

Is there a way to build xen without qemu? I only have guests with paravirtualized hardware (pvh guests) and building qemu takes a lot of time and probably has a lot of dependencies.

ska67 commented on 2022-01-02 14:19 (UTC) (edited on 2022-01-02 14:21 (UTC) by ska67)

OVMF from the edk2-ovmf package can no longer be used with Xen because Xen support has been removed from the x64 platform target. See my last post in arch linux forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=269628

OVMF shipped with this Xen package cannot be built due to an upstream error. @Refutationalist, I have a working patch that I will email to you.

Btw, the specific platform target OvmfXen is supposed to be bootable in PVH type DomUs, but I couldn't get that to work.

Refutationalist commented on 2021-12-28 17:47 (UTC) (edited on 2021-12-28 17:47 (UTC) by Refutationalist)

@ska64 I don't work with windows very much at all, so needing TPM for win11 didn't occur to me. I've pushed the changes to AUR and I'll consider what I might do to improve stubdom.

ska67 commented on 2021-12-28 16:20 (UTC)

Your updated package on Github works out of the box. Maybe you could surround the new ninja makedepends with apostrophes, but it compiles without that change.

I tested with and without build_stubdom=true, it compiles and runs. Qemu is built and running as well.

The stubdoms are needed for virtual TPMs. I want to use them to store a LUKS key. But maybe someone else needs them to start Windows?

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