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Topic Title: How to build and use VSTools with newer kernel version?
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Created On: 02/14/2007 02:06 PM
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02/14/2007 02:06 PM
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Liang
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Hello,

I posted this question on VI support website and I did not get reply. I understand VI does not provide support for not using VSTools RPM package. I re-post to this forum in case I can get help from other uses who have similar experience.

I created a VS on a SATA disk drive attached to a physcial VI node and installed it with RHEL4U4 which has built-in kernel 2.6.9-42. However, I want to use 2.6.16 kernel version for performance evaluation purpose. I downloaded 2.6.16 source and rebuilt it. The VS boots properly with this newer kernel version without problem. I then downloaded VSTools source and built VSTools with 2.6.16 kernel. VSTools driver modules are built without problems either.

Then I stopped the VS and enabled VSTools in the Boot Configuration of VS and then restarted the VS. However, VS boots with the kernel panic (Volume Group not found).

I have several questions about building and using VSTools on a customer kernel:

1. Do I need to load thos VSTools modules manually after I built it from source?
2. What is the proper sequence to load VSTools modules as there are 12 of module files?
3. Do I need to load all those 12 .ko modules in domu/drviers/linux/RHEL4-U4-i386_32.modules/2.6.16.33-up?
4. Based on the VI manual, it seems if I install VSTools from the VSTools RPM package, a VSTools entry will be added in grub.conf. However, it seems building VSTools from source does not make this happen. Should I manually add such entry if I build VSTools from source?


Thanks,

Liang
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