Re: [Xen-users] Install Xen 4.4-Unstable

[John Wargo <wargo.john25@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/25/2013 03:12 AM, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 08:24:06PM -0500, John Wargo wrote:
> > Dear people with higher intelligence than me,
> >
> > I'm trying to install xen 4.4-Unstable from source. I used this wiki
> > page : http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Compiling_Xen_From_Source.
> >
> > Steps I took :
> >
> > 1) Check-out from git (master)
> > 2) ./configure
> > 3) make world
> > 4) make install
> > 5) /sbin/ldconifg
> > 6) Reboot into xen
> Just asking, do you have the necessary permission to run 'make install'?
> You need to be root.
>
> > I'm currently running an up to date version of Fedora 19.
> Is there any special requirement that prevents you from using the
> pre-package Xen in Fedora?
>
> > After rebooting I started with 'xen-dmesg' under root, just to see
> > if I had a working iommu right out of the box, however it appears I
> > don't even have xl:
> >
> > [root@Hypervisor john]# xl dmesg
> > bash: xl: command not found
> >
> > I backed out of root and ran the same thing, and got this result :
> >
> > [john@Hypervisor ~]$ xl dmesg
> > xl: error while loading shared libraries: libxlutil.so.4.3: cannot
> > open shared object file: No such file or directory
> What does "ldd `which xl`" (without quote) show?
>
> Wei.
>
> > I'm certain I simply missed one step, but cannot for the life of me
> > figure out what it is.
> > Thanks for your time and expertise,
> > - John
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Wei,

> Just asking, do you have the necessary permission to run 'make install'?
> You need to be root.
Yes, I made sure to run all of those under root (via 'sudo su')

> Is there any special requirement that prevents you from using the
> pre-package Xen in Fedora?
Yes, it has some issues with AMD-Vi and IOMMU, as well as some VGA 
passthrough issues that supposedly can be handled in 4.4.
> What does "ldd `which xl`" (without quote) show?
> Wei.
[john@Hypervisor ~]$ ldd `which xl`
        linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff9f4f8000)
        libxlutil.so.4.3 => not found
        libxenlight.so.4.3 => not found
        libxenctrl.so.4.3 => not found
        libyajl.so.2 => /lib64/libyajl.so.2 (0x00007f9dc4758000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f9dc4538000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f9dc4170000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f9dc4990000)

-John

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