Re: [Xen-devel] How Can I install xen 3.4.2 from source code

[veerasena reddy <veeruyours@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I could successfully install xen-3.4.3.4 on CENTOS-5.5 as dom0. May be it works for you too:

1. Install centos-5.5 distribution with "customize now" option for packages during installation. i have selected the following in addition to default:
• development:
• gnome software development
  
• development libraries
• development tools
• legacy software development
• virtualization
• base system: 
• legacy software development
• system tools
• admin tools
• x windows system
2. by default this installs Centos kernel 2.6.18-194.el5xen as dom0 kernel and XEN hypervisor version 3.1.2-194
3. Now download source RPM for xen version which you want to install
• http://www.gitco.de/repo/src/
• I tried xen-3.4.3-4.el5.src.rpm
4. Setup the rpm build environment (for details refer http://crashcourse.ca/content/working-source-rpms-under-centos)
   
• #mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}
• #echo '%_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild' > ~/.rpmmacros
• #yum install transfig tetex-latex texi2html libaio-devel iasl xz-devel e4fsprogs-devel rpm-build redhat-rpm-config
5. install xen-<version>.src.rpm to get .spec file
• #rpm -i xen-<version>.src.rpm
• this will create xen-3.4.3.spec file under /root/rpmbuild/SPECS/
6. go to /root/rpmbuild/SPECS/ and execute following command to build the rpm sources
• # rpmbuild -ba xen-3.4.3.spec
• this may report some missing dependencies. Please do "yum install" of those and do "rpmbuild" again.
  
7. this builds xen-<version> hypervisor and xen-tools in /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/xen-3.4.3/
8. Go to /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/xen-3.4.3/ and install xen and tools
• [root@localhost xen-3.4.3]# make install-xen install-tools
9. Add a new grub entry (this to not to mess up the default one) with new xen version. My grub.conf looks as follows after this step:

title CentOS (2.6.18-194.el5xen)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-194.el5

        module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.el5xen ro root=/dev/vg_centos/lvroot rhgb quiet
        module /initrd-2.6.18-194.el5xen.img
title CentOS (2.6.18-194.el5 and xen-3.4.3)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /xen-3.4.3.gz

        module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.el5xen ro root=/dev/vg_centos/lvroot rhgb quiet
        module /initrd-2.6.18-194.el5xen.img

Good Luck.

- VSR.

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:33 PM, m00nlight <dot_wangyushi@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello everyone:
       I am currently install xen 3.4.2 on centOS 5.5 with linux kernel version 2.6.18.8.
It works during the procedure make dist -j 4 and make install -j4, but when I make the
initrd image of xen it shows the following error:
       Looking for deps of module pata_marvell
       No module pata_marvell found for kernel 2.6.18.8-xen, aborting.
How can I fix it?

Thanks.


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