Xen Hypervisor upgrade up to 4.0.1 on Opensuse 11.3

[ Thanks to Boris Derzhavets for this link. ]

"Procedure bellow fixes one hidden issue in recently developed Xen 4.0.1 src.rpm. It removes error "xen be core: xen be core: can't open gnttab device" in corresponding /var/log/xen log file during attempt to run virt-install for PV Guest in VNC mode or attempt to run python installation profile referencing VFB for domains of same kind.

# wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories
Virtualization:/openSUSE11.3/openSUSE_11.3/src/xen-4.0.1_21326_01-1.1.src.rpm
# rpm -iv xen-4.0.1_21326_01-1.1.src.rpm

"To fix error in mentioned above xen-4.0.1_21326_01-1.1.src.rpm for opensuse 11.3 before rebuild make following changes to /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/udev-rools.patch. Just add one "gntdev" line"

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