The Book of Xen

paravirt_ops DomU

"But what," you ask, "is all this about using a kernel.org kernel in a domU?" If you just want to make your own domU kernel, this is a much less involved process, supported without out-of-tree patches since version 2.6.23. All of these directions are presented from within a domU that boots using PV-GRUB or PyGRUB—no intervention from the dom0 administrator should be necessary.

First, download the kernel source you prefer:

# wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.29.3.tar.bz2

Next, install the packages normally required to build the kernel. This example is for Debian, but it should be easy enough to find out what packages your favorite distro needs to build the kernel.

# apt-get install build-essential libncurses5-dev ...