Compile-Time Tuning
That's the quick and easy way to build Xen, but the basic compilation with make world is just the beginning. Compilation represents the first opportunity we have to configure Xen, and there's a lot more that we can do with it now that we've had some practice.
Most of the compile-time tuning can be done by twiddling variables in Config.mk, at the top level of the Xen source tree. This file is fairly extensively commented and amenable to editing—take a look. You'll find that there's a brief section where you can decide which optional Xen bits to build.
We usually turn on all of the optional components except for the Virtual Trusted Platform Module (VTPM) tools, leading to a section like this:
XENSTAT_XENTOP ?= y VTPM_TOOLS ?= n ...
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