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

[Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ryan Burke wrote:
> > Tom Brown wrote:
> >     
> > > > 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
> > > >
> > > >         
> > > what is the error you are seeing - the link below is great and
> > > outlines exactly how to build this from the src rpm
> > >
> > > http://www.nabble.com/Xen-3.2---CentOS-td15662499.html
> > >
> > >
> > >       
> > HI Tom.
> >
> > I clearly don't have the experience to properly do this, and currently
> > my test machine has a lot of extra software installed which I don't even
> > know if I need it / want it. The server will run cPanel, so I need to
> > have an absolute bare bones system.
> >
> > Needless to say, I don't know what exactly to give you. The snippets of
> > forum / mailing lists posts I have read so far have given me some stuff
> > to work with, but nothing concrete and step-by-step. I also don't have
> > the bandwidth to download every suggested package and try it out just to
> > see it's not working. Nor do I have endless hours at hand to learn all
> > of this. I'm not a developer / programmer, so I don't even know how to
> > debug the stuff I do. Having run rpmbuild --rebuild --target x86_64
> > xen-3.2.0-0xs.centos5.src.rpm* -* I don't know where what is, and I
> > don't see a modified rpm. I know enough about rpm files and how to use
> > them, but not how to make them.
> >
> > I basically need an easy way to deploy XEN server, without having to
> > compile tarball files, and without having to rebuild a src.rpm on every
> > machine. So, a pre-build rpm would be nice, then I can just include it
> > on the installation CD and install when needed
> >
> > --
> >
> > Kind Regards
> > Rudi Ahlers
> > CEO, SoftDux
> >
> > Web:   http://www.SoftDux.com
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> > stuff
> >     
> Have you looked into the "make dist" option when compiling from hte Xen
> 3.2 tarball? It basically pacakges everything into the "dist" directory in
> the xen-3.2.0 directory. If comes with its own install script so basically
> you compile/build it once, then tar it up and scp it to the other
> machines. On the other machines untar it cd dist/ and run install.sh. tHen
> you'll need to edit your grub.conf to boot to the new kernel. It is a
> pretty easy way of doing it if you have identical hardware architectues
> (32 bit or 64 bit), if not then you'd need to build it for each different
> hardware architecture. Of course you'll want to build the specific driver
> modules for all your systems as well. Either way it is fairly easy without
> having to build it on every system.
>
> Ryan
>
> _______________________________________________
>   
The
are 32bit, so I didn't look into it. I also haven't compiled a tarball 
since Slackware 4.1, so I don't know how well it will work on a CentOS / 
rpm based system.
I would prefer to work with rpm's, since it's going to be part of an 
anaconda / kickstat bases automated installation CD, to be used at sites 
without internet, and only 1 or 2 servers, so I can't even put it on 
another machine at that site. Basically I'd love to automate this, and I 
know a working rpm will work well for me. I can install other rpm's this 
way already, so I'd prefer to stick with something that I know
--

Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers
CEO, SoftDux

Web:   http://www.SoftDux.com
Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other 
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