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Re: [Xen-API] Building xapi toolstack - new instructions

To: Jonathan Ludlam <Jonathan.Ludlam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-API] Building xapi toolstack - new instructions
From: Alberto González Rodríguez <alberto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:31:47 +0200
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works perfect! thanks

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Jonathan Ludlam
<Jonathan.Ludlam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As was pointed out last week or so, the current instructions for building the 
> xapi toolstack are woefully outdated.
>
> I've been working on trying to make things a little easier for people to hack 
> on xapi, so I've built some RPMs and set up a YUM repository to make it a 
> little easier to get going. There is no longer any need to download a build 
> appliance VM - the new build environment is based on a standard CentOS 5.5 
> install. I'll update the website shortly with something that looks like the 
> following instructions. If anyone has a moment to test this, please let me 
> know if it works or not, and I'll update the instructions accordingly.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Jon
>
> ===========
>
> First, install CentOS 5.5 32 bit. This has been tested in VirtualBox and XCP, 
> but should work under any hypervisor, or indeed on a real machine (!)
>
> Create a file /etc/yum.repos.d/xcp_unstable.repo with the following contents:
>
> [xcp_unstable]
> name = xcp_unstable
> baseurl = http://xenbits.xen.org/XCP/unstable/yum
> gpgcheck = 0
>
> Then execute the following commands:
>
> rpm -e libaio
> yum install gcc autoconf automake tetex ghostscript java-1.6.0-openjdk 
> java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel ant pam-devel python-devel zlib-devel openssl-devel 
> dev86 rpm-build texinfo flex bison sharutils elfutils-devel ncurses-devel 
> e4fsprogs-devel ocaml ocaml-findlib ocaml-getopt ocaml-type-conv ocaml-xmlm 
> omake ocaml-xmlm-devel xen-devel xapi-libs-devel xapi-libs-utils mercurial
>
> Check out the xapi source:
>
> hg clone http://xenbits.xen.org/XCP/xen-api.hg
>
> and then build it:
>
> cd xen-api.hg
> make
>
> Which should result in the binary 'xapi.opt' in the ocaml/xapi subdirectory.
>
> ============
>
>
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