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["David Brown" <dmlb2000 AT gmail.com>]

> I updated them a while ago and they worked for me. not sure if the
> organisation of xen vs. xen-kernels spells is still appropriate, but the
> result worked for me with udev + coldplug.

We can split it up even further though I have an example of a set of
spells if people would like to try them, even though I couldn't get
the documentation to work.

scribe add xen-grimoire from
git://dmlb2000.homelinux.org/xen-grimoire.git:xen-grimoire &&
cast -r xen

The setup is simple, there's really four components to the xen system:
kernel(s) depending on how you look at it
hypervisor to provide abstracted layer to the kernel
tools to provide logging and managing of xen images
docs to tell you how to do things

So I split the package up into the four parts and made four spells
(along with the subdepends of linux you can get the kernel from there
if you like its optional).
xen (profile spell)
xen-tools (userspace stuff)
xen-hyporvisor (don't need much to build this)
xen-docs (which I can't get to work)

Note: if you plan on using linux spell for handling the kernel just
select the latest 2.6 kernel and exit, the sub-depends will take care
of draging the appropriate patches into the spell. Its also important
to cast -r xen so the linux configure menu will pop up.

Along with a 'how-to' on the wiki I think we could get more people
using xen with smgl.

- David Brown