RE: [Xen-users] Can someone please build a Xen 3.2 rpm for CentOS 5.1x64?

["Ross S. W. Walker" <rwalker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marco Strullato wrote:
> 
> Hi, I followed you instructions, I've build and installed
> xen-3.2.0-0xs and xen-libs-3.2.0-0xs.
> Now I get this error when I execute xm list:
> 
> Error: Unable to connect to xend: No such file or directory. 
> Is xend running?

This looks like you didn't change the grub.conf to specify
the Xen 3.2 hypervisor as opposed to the stock Xen 3.1
hypervisor that the RH/CentOS Xen kernels are set to use
by default.


> And into the xend.log I have
> 
> [2008-04-24 09:48:01 3499] INFO (SrvDaemon:331) Xend Daemon started
> [2008-04-24 09:48:01 3499] INFO (SrvDaemon:335) Xend 
> changeset: unavailable.
> [2008-04-24 09:48:01 3499] INFO (SrvDaemon:342) Xend version: Unknown.
> [2008-04-24 09:48:01 3499] ERROR (SrvDaemon:353) Exception starting
> xend ((13, 'Permission denied'))
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File 
> "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/server/SrvDaemon.py",
> line 345, in run
>     servers = SrvServer.create()
>   File 
> "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/server/SrvServer.py",
> line 251, in create
>     root.putChild('xend', SrvRoot())
>   File 
> "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/server/SrvRoot.py",
> line 40, in __init__
>     self.get(name)
>   File 
> "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/web/SrvDir.py", line 
> 82, in get
>     val = val.getobj()
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/web/SrvDir.py", line
> 52, in getobj
>     self.obj = klassobj()
>   File 
> "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/server/SrvNode.py",
> line 30, in __init__
>     self.xn = XendNode.instance()
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendNode.py", line
> 709, in instance
>     inst = XendNode()
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendNode.py", line
> 83, in __init__
>     self.other_config["xen_pagesize"] = 
> self.xeninfo_dict()["xen_pagesize"]
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendNode.py", line
> 673, in xeninfo_dict
>     return dict(self.xeninfo())
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendNode.py", line
> 617, in xeninfo
>     info['xen_scheduler'] = self.xenschedinfo()
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendNode.py", line
> 607, in xenschedinfo
>     sched_id = self.xc.sched_id_get()
> Error: (13, 'Permission denied')
> 
> I read this is about the python used in the previous version of xen of
> mu centos5 linux but I suppose this error is due to the previous
> kernel.
> 
> Now I'm running this:
> 
> [root@hyp10 ~]# uname -a
> Linux hyp10.infolan 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5xen #1 SMP Wed Mar 5 12:08:17
> EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> [root@hyp10 ~]# rpm -qa | grep xen
> kmod-drbd82-xen-8.2.5-1.2.6.18_53.1.14.el5
> kernel-xen-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5
> xen-libs-3.2.0-0xs
> xen-3.2.0-0xs
> kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5
> 
> And this is the python I have installed:
> 
> [root@hyp10 ~]# find /usr/ -name "SrvDaemon.py"
> /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/xen-3.2.0/tools/python/xen/xend/server/S
> rvDaemon.py
> /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/xen-3.2.0/tools/python/build/lib.linux-x
> 86_64-2.4/xen/xend/server/SrvDaemon.py
> /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/server/SrvDaemon.py
> 
> [root@hyp10 ~]# find /usr/ -name "python*" | grep -v doc
> /usr/include/python2.4
> /usr/include/python2.4/pythonrun.h
> /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz
> /usr/share/mc/syntax/python.syntax
> /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/xen-3.2.0/tools/xenstat/libxenstat/bindi
> ngs/swig/python
> /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/xen-3.2.0/tools/security/python
> /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/xen-3.2.0/tools/python
> /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/xen-3.2.0/tools/python/logging/logging-0
> .4.9.2/python_logging.html
> /usr/lib/rpm/pythondeps.sh
> /usr/lib/python2.4
> /usr/lib/python2.4/config/python.o
> /usr/lib64/python2.4
> /usr/lib64/python2.4/idlelib/Icons/python.gif
> /usr/lib64/python2.4/config/python.o
> /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/japanese/python
> /usr/bin/python2
> /usr/bin/python2.4
> /usr/bin/python
> 
> 
> How do you suggest me to go on?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Marco
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 2008/3/31, Ross S. W. Walker <rwalker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> >  >
> >  > Hi all
> >  >
> >  > I'm looking for the rpm's for Xen 3.2 x64 to use on CentOS 5.1.
> >  > Unfortunately I have had no joy in trying to rebuild the 
> src rpm. If
> >  > anyone has done it before, please let me know
> >
> >
> > I can get you going, though you will need to type in the commands
> >  to compile it on your end.
> >
> >  1) Install CentOS 5.1 x86_64 + virtualization package
> >
> >  2) Install these packages via yum:
> >
> >  # yum intstall gcc binutils dev86 bison flex 
> kernel-xen-devel transfig libidn-devel zlib-devel texi2html 
> SDL-devel curl-devel libX11-devel python-devel ghostscript 
> tetex-latex ncurses-devel gtk2-devel libaio-devel perl 
> glibc-devel.x86_64 glibc-devel.i386 gettext gnutls-devel openssl-devel
> >
> >  A lot of dependencies will be pulled in, but hey that's life..
> >
> >  3) Download the xen 3.2 src rpm from xen.org and install it
> >
> >  4) cd to '/usr/src/redhat/SPECS' and type in 'rpmbuild -ba 
> xen.spec'
> >
> >  If it aborts with an error, it shouldn't, so post it and
> >  someone will help you with it.
> >
> >  5) cd to '/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64' and type in
> >  'rpm -Uvh xen-3.2.0-0xs.x86_64.rpm xen-libs-3.2.0-0xs.x86_64.rpm'
> >
> >  Then your done.
> >
> >  There are 2 issues I encountered with the xen.org 3.2 version.
> >
> >  1) The Xen API interface doesn't handle an unspecified
> >  'timer_mode' option which causes virt-manager and
> >  virt-install to break. There is a patch for this and
> >  I can send a patched src rpm with it if you want.
> >
> >  2) utc_timeoffset isn't automatically calculated so
> >  you need to specify it. I also have a patch for that
> >  too, included in my new src rpm.
> >
> >  -Ross
> >
> >  
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