[TUTORIAL] Building the PVE kernel on Proxmox VE 6.x

Thank you that moved things forward, I see I have a full copy of a version of ubuntu kernel in the folder which is not 5.3GB

However

mk-build-deps --install debian/control.in

Still fails with the same error

Code: 
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version unknown
dpkg-buildpackage: error: version number does not start with digit
Error in the build process: exit status 255
dpkg: error: cannot access archive 'proxmox-kernel-@KVMAJMIN@-build-deps_1.0_all.deb': No such file or directory
mk-build-deps: dpkg --unpack failed

Is this a real bug with the sources ?

I searched the whole tree with find | grep \\.deb , there are no deb files

What is that file ?
 
you need to generate the real control file - @t.lamprecht just pushed a change that allows you to generate that more easily without parsing arcane Makefile syntax ;)
 
If you truly need to build a custom kernel you could use either:

Do you really need to compile the kernel (because you are applying a patch) or can use dkms to compile just the module you need from guthub?

This is how i built an ubuntu 6.5.2 kernel which i needed due to the diff patches i was testing, IMO if you are building, try using the pve kerenl source instead - but the process should be the same https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/t...link-state-change-aborting.133104/post-587604
 
fabian said:
just pushed a change that allows you to generate that more easily without parsing arcane Makefile syntax
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cool, i generated mine by pulling off a running config (/boot/config-6.2.16-10-pve) is that a bad idea?
 
@scyto
This is about the debian/control.in file

I finally found out that you need to run the command

make debian.prepared

From the /usr/src/pve-kernel

A command so obscure, it has never been mentionned ever on this forum, duckduckgo nor google !

1695161150174.pngNow I could finally successfully run

Code: 
root@srv4:/usr/src/pve-kernel# mk-build-deps -ir ./proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/debian/control

And then copy over the config file in the kernel sources, I don't know when I created this file, possibly when I ran make submodules

Code: 
root@srv4:/usr/src/pve-kernel# cp proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel/.config proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel/.config.bak
root@srv4:/usr/src/pve-kernel# cp config-6.2.16.org proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel/.config
root@srv4:/usr/src/pve-kernel# cd  proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel/
root@srv4:/usr/src/pve-kernel/proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel# make menuconfig

And there it is !
 

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shodan said:
This is about the debian/control.in file
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these? https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html

I am intrigued as i never had to run `mk-build-deps -ir ./proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/debian/control` to compile a kernel from ubuntu or linux kernel nor did i copy the config from the kernel sources - i copied the running config and answered all the other questions using make oldedefconfig (avoiding menuconfig all together as i had no idea how to answer the questions)

I am trying to understand the root need of you taking a different path so i understand more about kernel building.
 
I was going from the suggestion of someone earlier in this thread

Presumably this replace this step

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev gcc make git exuberant-ctags bc libssl-dev build-essential wget bison flex libncurses-dev libelf-devmake rsync zstd debhelper

And installs only the packages which have to be installed, rather than a static list of packages ?

It might do other things, I am unsure.

make debian.prepared appears to have done a lot of stuff

My build eventually failed, due to a missing certificate

Code: 
CC      certs/system_keyring.o
make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'debian/canonical-certs.pem', needed by 'certs/x509_certificate_list'.  Stop.
make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:512: certs] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:2026: .] Error 2

I haven't yet search why, maybe for secure boot ?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...le-to-make-target-debian-certs-debian-uefi-ce

I had a look and the file is not in my /usr/src

Code: 
root@srv4:/usr/src/pve-kernel/proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel# find /usr/src/ | grep -i \\.pem
/usr/src/pve-kernel/submodules/ubuntu-kernel/tools/testing/selftests/sgx/sign_key.pem
/usr/src/pve-kernel/submodules/ubuntu-kernel/debian/revoked-certs/canonical-uefi-2018-all.pem
/usr/src/pve-kernel/submodules/ubuntu-kernel/debian/revoked-certs/canonical-uefi-2021v3-all.pem
/usr/src/pve-kernel/submodules/ubuntu-kernel/debian/revoked-certs/canonical-uefi-2021v1-all.pem
/usr/src/pve-kernel/submodules/ubuntu-kernel/debian/revoked-certs/canonical-uefi-uc2019-all.pem
/usr/src/pve-kernel/submodules/ubuntu-kernel/debian/revoked-certs/canonical-uefi-2012-all.pem
/usr/src/pve-kernel/submodules/ubuntu-kernel/debian/revoked-certs/canonical-uefi-2019-all.pem
/usr/src/pve-kernel/submodules/ubuntu-kernel/debian/revoked-certs/canonical-uefi-2021v2-all.pem
/usr/src/pve-kernel/submodules/ubuntu-kernel/debian/revoked-certs/canonical-uefi-2017-all.pem
/usr/src/pve-kernel/submodules/ubuntu-kernel/debian/certs/canonical-livepatch-all.pem
/usr/src/pve-kernel/submodules/ubuntu-kernel/debian/certs/ubuntu-drivers-all.pem
/usr/src/pve-kernel/proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel/tools/testing/selftests/sgx/sign_key.pem

Maybe if I link to /usr/src/pve-kernel/submodules/ubuntu-kernel/debian/certs/canonical-livepatch-all.pem that would be good enough, I'll have to see whether I can find the real file somewhere
 
Thanks, i will take a look and see if that file you are having issues with is my ubuntu source i used or not.

I might be tempted to use the pve source instead of the ubuntu source and see if what i did worked... esp now my patches I need are in 6.2.16-14-pve (aka i don't need to patch just try building)
 
Another thing to add before compiling

In the .config file, you have to remove the extra keys from canonical

change

CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYS="debian/canonical-certs.pem"
CONFIG_SYSTEM_REVOCATION_KEYS="debian/canonical-revoked-certs.pem"

to

CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYS=""
CONFIG_SYSTEM_REVOCATION_KEYS=""


also building the kernel much faster by allowing more core since the default strangely is not to use all cores, but to use only one !

make -j 100

Now I'm trying to figure out how to properly install my kernel and modules in a way that doesn't break proxmox-boot-tool !

I suspect that the old

Code: 
make install
make modules_install

Are going to break things !

Also, I noticed I have a /boot folder that is not my mounted EFI system partition, and it's full of stuff

I'm not sure if I should have the /boot mounted all the time, if it's ok to delete everything in /boot of the root partition and only the EFI ESP counts ?!

Once I've got all that, I'll make a final post that describe building and instaling the kernel from a fresh install
 
The .config file I have used is

/usr/src/pve-kernel/config-6.2.16.org

I'm not sure when I picked up that file, it was one of the commands I ran.

Here is a copy after I have removed the two .pem files

https://pastebin.com/inT7cpQc

The PVE kernel readme https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-kern...5dc8aa399ba86a0e846cd1837a7c19d3da48e;hb=HEAD

Says to check for the following settings

Code: 
cat proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel/.config | grep INTEL_MEI_WDT
cat proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel/.config | grep CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS
cat proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel/.config | grep CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
cat proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel/.config | grep CONFIG_CEPH_FS=
cat proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel/.config | grep CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD
cat proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel/.config | grep CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR
cat proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel/.config | grep CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM
cat proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel/.config | grep CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD
cat proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel/.config | grep CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RBD
cat proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel/.config | grep CONFIG_JFS_FS
cat proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel/.config | grep CONFIG_HFS_FS
cat proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel/.config | grep CONFIG_HFSPLUS_FS
cat proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel/.config | grep CONFIG_BCACHE=
cat proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel/.config | grep CONFIG_BRIDGE=
cat proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel/.config | grep CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY_APPARMOR
cat proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel/.config | grep CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE
cat proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel/.config | grep -i CONFIG_MQ_IOSCHED
cat proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel/.config | grep CONFIG_INPUT_EVBUG
cat proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel/.config | grep CONFIG_MODVERSIONS
cat proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel/.config | grep UNWINDER
cat proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel/.config | grep FRAME_POINTER
cat proxmox-kernel-6.2.16/ubuntu-kernel/.config | grep CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION

my results were

Code: 
CONFIG_INTEL_MEI_WDT=m
# CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS is not set
CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=y
# CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS is not set
CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_MADVISE=y
CONFIG_CEPH_FS=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM_BUILTIN=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RBD=m
CONFIG_JFS_FS=m
CONFIG_HFS_FS=m
CONFIG_HFSPLUS_FS=m
CONFIG_BCACHE=m
CONFIG_BRIDGE=m
CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY_APPARMOR=y
# CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE is not set
CONFIG_MQ_IOSCHED_DEADLINE=y
CONFIG_MQ_IOSCHED_KYBER=m
CONFIG_INPUT_EVBUG=m
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
# CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC is not set
CONFIG_UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER=y
CONFIG_SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER=y
CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y
CONFIG_UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER=y
CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION=y

The kernel readme says

Code: 
NOTE: For the exact and current list see debian/rules (PVE_CONFIG_OPTS)

- enable INTEL_MEI_WDT=m (to allow disabling via patch)

- disable CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS (enabled by default in Ubuntu, not needed)

- switch CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE to MADVISE from ALWAYS

- enable CONFIG_CEPH_FS=m (request from user)

- enable common CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XXX to avoid hardware detection
problems (udev, update-initramfs have serious problems without that)

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM=y

- compile NBD and RBD modules
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RBD=m

- enable IBM JFS file system as module
requested by users (bug #64)

- enable apple HFS and HFSPLUS as module
requested by users

- enable CONFIG_BCACHE=m (requested by user)

- enable CONFIG_BRIDGE=y
to avoid warnings on boot, e.g. that net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables is an unknown key

- enable CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY_APPARMOR
We need this for lxc

- set CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y
because if not set, it can give some dynamic memory or cpu frequencies
change, and vms can crash (mainly windows guest).
see http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/18238-Windows-7-x64-VMs-crashing-randomly-during-process-termination?p=93273#post93273

- use 'deadline' as default scheduler
This is the suggested setting for KVM. We also measure bad fsync performance with ext4 and cfq.

- disable CONFIG_INPUT_EVBUG
Module evbug is not blacklisted on debian, so we simply disable it to avoid
key-event logs (which is a big security problem)

- enable CONFIG_MODVERSIONS (needed for ABI tracking)

- switch default UNWINDER to FRAME_POINTER
the recently introduced ORC_UNWINDER is not 100% stable yet, especially in combination with ZFS
- enable CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION (Meltdown mitigation)


So the following are wrong in the file config-6.2.16.org

Code: 
CONFIG_INPUT_EVBUG=m
# CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE is not set
CONFIG_BRIDGE=m



Hmm I am curious it says "For the exact and current list see debian/rules (PVE_CONFIG_OPTS)"

There is this file https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-kern...31d4e3749014d5e27d8104c7da4f3b75a636c;hb=HEAD

In that file it says

Code: 
-d CONFIG_INPUT_EVBUG \
-e CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE
-e CONFIG_BRIDGE

I'm going to assume that -d means disable and -e means enable

Code: 
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y
CONFIG_INPUT_EVBUG=n
CONFIG_BRIDGE=y
 
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shodan said:
A command so obscure, it has never been mentionned ever on this forum, duckduckgo nor google !
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It's simply calling a makefile target, and they can be named whatever, so I'd not call make obscure..

scyto said:
cool, i generated mine by pulling off a running config (/boot/config-6.2.16-10-pve) is that a bad idea?
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No, it's a good idea. It's also documented as such in the README.
shodan said:
Says to check for the following settings
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The canonical source of KCOnfig switches we override on top of the ubuntu defaults is in the debian/rules file, which is basically the main makefile that the actual debian packaging process (dpkg-buildpackage) is using.
shodan said:
I'm going to assume that -d means disable and -e means enable
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Yes, at this level most is working directly on the actual kernel source, so it's just calling scripts/config (i.e., the main Linux KConfig management tool), which outputs a help:

Code: 
Manipulate options in a .config file from the command line.
Usage:
config options command ...
commands:
        --enable|-e option   Enable option
        --disable|-d option  Disable option
        --module|-m option   Turn option into a module
        --set-str option string
                             Set option to "string"
        --set-val option value
                             Set option to value
        --undefine|-u option Undefine option
        --state|-s option    Print state of option (n,y,m,undef)

        --enable-after|-E beforeopt option
                             Enable option directly after other option
        --disable-after|-D beforeopt option
                             Disable option directly after other option
        --module-after|-M beforeopt option
                             Turn option into module directly after other option

        commands can be repeated multiple times

options:
        --file config-file   .config file to change (default .config)
        --keep-case|-k       Keep next symbols' case (dont' upper-case it)

config doesn't check the validity of the .config file. This is done at next
make time.

By default, config will upper-case the given symbol. Use --keep-case to keep
the case of all following symbols unchanged.

config uses 'CONFIG_' as the default symbol prefix. Set the environment
variable CONFIG_ to the prefix to use. Eg.: CONFIG_="FOO_" config ...
 
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Here is my trial-and-error way of compiling the pve kernel on a fresh Proxmox VE 8.0.4 ( 6.2.16-3-pve )

Code: 
apt update
apt install asciidoc-base automake bc bison cpio debhelper dh-python dwarves file flex gcc git kmod libdw-dev libelf-dev libiberty-dev libnuma-dev libpve-common-perl libslang2-dev libssl-dev libtool lintian lz4 python3-minimal rsync sphinx-common xmlto zlib1g-dev zstd # build tools
apt install abigail-tools libaio-dev libblkid-dev libpam0g-dev libudev-dev lsb-release python3-cffi uuid-dev python3-all-dev # zfs tools
apt remove libcurl4-openssl-dev # fix package conflict
apt install libcurl4-gnutls-dev # fix package conflict

git clone -b bookworm-6.2 git://git.proxmox.com/git/pve-kernel.git
cd pve-kernel
nano patches/kernel/0020-custom.patch # insert own kernel patch

git submodule foreach git fetch --tags
git submodule update --init
cd submodules/zfsonlinux
make
cd ../..
make submodule
make

dpkg -i *.deb
reboot
apt-mark hold linux-image-*
apt-mark hold linux-headers-*
apt-mark hold proxmox-headers-*
apt-mark hold proxmox-kernel-*
 
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