Here’s my trials and tribulations trying to get XCP going on a server we have. Unfortunately, the documentation in the Wiki is not complete and is confusing for someone new to Xen/XCP and thus, I’m having trouble understanding some things.
So hopefully, someone will be able to help me or point me in the right direction while I learn it.
I’ll summarize everything I’ve done up to now.
I’m trying to install XCP 1.1 on a server with an Areca 1680 SAS RAID card in it. I downloaded the Install ISO and went to do the install. There is no driver for this in XCP (which isn’t a big surprise). I downloaded a CentOS 5.5 driver
disk from Areca, but when the install gets to the part about “F9 to load drivers” it does not read the floppy disk and it expects a repository type layout which is frustrating.
I managed to install XCP 1.1 on the internal SATA drives and want to compile the Areca driver and kernel module. So, once it’s all set up, I went to the console but XCP doesn’t include any kernel headers or gcc or anything to compile a
new driver. I disabled the Citrix yum repository as per some other references to the HTTP 404 error I found while researching, leaving only the CentOS yum repositories. However, this is what I get:
# yum install gcc
“gcc not found”
??? Say what?
# yum install linux-gcc
“linux-gcc not found”
Ok, so now I’m confused. Why can’t I install gcc? I did manage to:
# yum install xen-devel
That worked just fine.
So my question comes down to:
1)
How do I get gcc and other necessary software installed so I can compile the Areca kernel module (or maybe there’s a better way to approach this?)
2)
Once done, what is the best way to set up our storage system to store VM’s
A subsequent question, is maybe there’s a way I can do a custom build of XCP with SuSE 12 x64 with the required kernel module?
The internal SATA drives also run off the Areca controller, so I had to move them to install XCP at all and I’d like to get it going as the internal boot drives are set up RAID 1+0 but of course aren’t recognized by XCP at all.
Thanks in advance.
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Carl B. Constantine, IT Analyst
Server, Network and Telecomm Infrastructure
IT Services
Royal Roads University
250 391-2600 ext.4975
fax 250 391-2594
http://www.royalroads.ca
carl.constantine@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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