Re: [Xen-users] Cannot install vnet support in Xen 3.0.3.

["Michel Gauthier" <Michel.Gauthier@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mats,
Thanks for your answers, but I don' think that downloading the linux source 
from kernels.org or some such
is the good solution.
In fact, the directory named /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/linux-2.6.16.29 
contains the linux source, exactly like
pristine-linux-... does.
But when I try to build vnet-module using Makefile.ver, it aborts due to the 
filename linux-2.6.16.29 instead of
pristine-linux-..., and then, after changing pristine-linux by linux inside 
the script, it aborts one more time, due to
the fact that a directory named linux-2.6.16.29-xen, necessary to the 
script, does not exist.
On my mind, the good solution would be a modification of the 
vnet-module/Makefile.ver script for a good
working with a rpms installation of Xen.
But it may be a "hard" work?

Regards.





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
To: "Michel Gauthier" <Michel.Gauthier@xxxxxxxx>; 
<xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 5:39 PM
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Cannot install vnet support in Xen 3.0.3.




> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Michel Gauthier
> Sent: 10 November 2006 16:27
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Xen-users] Cannot install vnet support in Xen 3.0.3.
>
> Hi,
> I've installed a Xen version 3.0.3 from XenSource rpms on my
> RHEL 4 Update 2
> distro (xen-3.0.3.0-1.i386.rpm,
> kernel-xen-2.6.16.29-3.0.3.0.i386.rpm,
> xen-devel-3.0.3.0-1.i386.rpm)
> I'm now trying to install vnet support as described in Xen 3.0 User's
> Manual.
> I've first installed xen-3.0.3.0-1.src.rpm package:
> rpm -ivh xen-3.0.3.0-1.src.rpm
> This package installation creates the following files:
> in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES directory:
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 40835061 Oct 15 15:29 linux-2.6.16.29.tar.bz2
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  4587164 Oct 16 15:13
> xen-3.0.3-testing-local_2006-10-16-14-13-24+0100_57fa367206fb.tar.bz2
> in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS directory:
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 8673 Oct 16 15:13
> xen-3.0.3-testing-local_2006-10-16-14-13-24+0100_57fa367206fb.spec
>
> Then I've extracted the tar.bz2 files:
> tar -tjvf linux-2.6.16.29.tar.bz2
> tar -tjvf
> xen-3.0.3-testing-local_2006-10-16-14-13-24+0100_57fa367206fb.tar.bz2
>
> These extractions create the following directories:
> /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/linux-2.6.16.29
> /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/xen-3.0.3-testing-local_2006-10-16-14-
> 13-24+0100_57fa367206fb
>
> Finally, I make the vnet installation by executing make install into
> /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/xen-3.0.3-testing-local_2006-10-16-14-
> 13-24+0100_57fa367206fb/tools/vnet
> directory
>
> The following error messages are displayed when processing
> the vnet-module
> directory:
>
> make -C vnet-module all
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/xen-3.0.3-testing-local_2006-10-16-14
> -13-24+0100_57fa367206fb/tools/vnet/vnet-module'
> Makefile.ver:28: *** Kernel source for linux 2.6 not found.  Stop.
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/xen-3.0.3-testing-local_2006-10-16-14
> -13-24+0100_57fa367206fb/tools/vnet/vnet-module'
> make: *** [vnet-module-all] Error 2
>
> The Makefile.ver file in vnet-module directory contains the
> following lines:
> LINUX_VERSION?=$(shell (/bin/ls -d
> $(XEN_ROOT)/pristine-linux-$(LINUX_SERIES).* 2>/dev/null) | \
>                       sed -e 's!^.*linux-\(.\+\)!\1!' )
>
> ifeq ($(LINUX_VERSION),)
> $(error Kernel source for linux $(LINUX_SERIES) not found)
> endif
>
> $XEN_ROOT is not defined and pristine-linux-$(LINUX_SERIES).*
> directories do
> not exist in this installation context (by using rpms).
> So, the vnet installation aborts.
In addition to previous post:
Ah, sorry, the pristine-linux-... Is created by the main Xen makefile,
by downloading the linux source from kernels.org or some such.

Once you have a pristine linux, you can probably do the steps I
suggested.

It may work to try to prepare the kernel by make prep-kernels as well -
I didn't want to upset my tree by doing a clean and try that...

--
Mats
> What can I do?
>
> Regards,
> Michel Gauthier.
>
>
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