Re: [Xen-API] How to install JUST the XenAPI Toolstack?

[Mike McClurg <mike.mcclurg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hey mike, thanks for the reply, i really appreciate that. I have been
> wanting to install XAPI on a Debian Dom0 for a while now, but without
> random testing, i didn't know how to proceed, so i have not done much
> installing.
>
> Originally i was looking at and following the Wiki Kronos page,
> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XCP_toolstack_on_a_Debian-based_distribution,
> but that is also out of date. As with all things, Project Kronos is
> still a work in progress i do understand that, and so far not too many
> guides out there to explain how to get it to work. So i was wondering about:
>
> 1.) Using the two commands found on the Project Kronos Wiki page,
> *apt-get install xcp-xapi* and *apt-get install xcp-xe*, the *xcp-api*
> package installs the Xen Hypervisor, Utils libraries, etc as a
> dependent, than what is the *xcp-xe* needed for?
xcp-xe provides the xe command line interface to xapi. It's a dependency 
of xcp-xapi, so you don't need to install it separately.
> 2.) I currently have installed Debian Wheezy 64bit, compiled kernal
> 3.3.4 and running the latest Xen 4.2-Unstable, as of compiled a few days
> ago at least. SO, if i try to run *apt-get install xcp-xapi*, it will
> also download and install the xen-hypervisor-4.1-amd64 package, QEMU and
> many others. IF i let it, it will probably override my currently running
> Xen 4.2-Unstable WHICH i am guessing is probably not a good thing. SO i
> have not done so unless i know you can install JUST the XAPI Toolstack
You could just delete the xen.gz that's installed by the 
xen-hypervisor.deb package, and then install your own. It might mess up 
your package database, but you can probably recover from that by 
force-reinstalling the xen-hypervisor.deb package to overwrite your 
custom build.
> 3.) Has XAPI been converted to 64bit yet? I have read conflicting things
> where one places says the XAPI is currently only 32bit, but on one wiki
> pages it shows as 32bit or 64 bit. So figured i ask since i am using a
> 64bit Debian Wheezy and don't believe a 32bit XAPI could run on it.
xapi in XCP and XenServer is 32-bit, but on Debian and Ubuntu it is 
compiled for both 32- and 64-bit.
> 4.) So, there is no way to download JUST the XAPI toolstack source,
> compile it and install? Looking in the *xapi-autobuilder.git*, it says
> the same thing that the XAPI is compiled with all dependencies,
> including Xen Hypervisor.
Yes, you can download the xapi source from 
http://github.com/xen-org/xen-api, check out the debian branch, and 
build from there. Or you can do apt-get source xen-api, and rebuild it. 
You might be able to use dpkg to install the binary deb package, without 
installing dependencies, but I don't know.
> 5.) Finally, is the latest version of XAPI compatible and can be run on
> Xen 4.2-Unstable?
I don't know, but I hope so ;) If you find out, please let us know. The 
latest trunk build of xapi should work with xen-unstable, but we haven't 
released that version of xapi yet, either for XenServer, XCP, or 
Debian/Ubuntu.
> Thanks again for the advice...
No problem!

Mike

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