I need to spin up a copy of Xen to support some cloud-based kernel work I have to do for the AWS environment.
I see that Xen is available in the Mageia repos, but when I go to install the package Xen (basic tools for managing Xen VMs) I am told I need to install two different server kernels on my workstation.
Well, I don't think I want to switch to a server kernel on my workstation; I am not sure what the implications of that would be and I don't really feel like exploring to find out. So, can anyone tell me what modules Xen needs that are in the server kernel that are not in the desktop kernel? Maybe I can load them as modules, or maybe I can compile a custom desktop kernel.
Would it be sufficient to compile everything in /usr/src/kernel-4.14.65-1.mga6/drivers/xen then install these as modules? I can always install Xen using the nodeps option of urpmi if that would work.