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RE: [Xen-users] More CentOS 5.2 & Xen 3.2.1 Compiling Questions!


  • To: Daniel Kao <dkao@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Xen-user List <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: "Nadolski, Ed" <Ed.Nadolski@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:56:22 -0600
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  • Thread-topic: [Xen-users] More CentOS 5.2 & Xen 3.2.1 Compiling Questions!

Hello Daniel,

 

Do virt-manager and virt-install still work on your system with CentOS 5.2 & Xen 3.2.1 together?

 

Installing CentOS 5.2 without the Xen packages leaves those off the system, but when I upgrading to Xen 3.2.1 (or later) on a Centos 5.2 installed with the Xen packages seems to put the ‘xm’ commands in a broken state (“Permission denied” errors start to show up).

 

Do you install them separately after upgrading?

 

Thanks in advance,

Ed

 


From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Daniel Kao
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 3:58 PM
To: Xen-user List
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] More CentOS 5.2 & Xen 3.2.1 Compiling Questions!

 

Hi Ross,

Bingo.  I skipped one of the most important parts!  ;)  I keep forgetting that grub.conf isn't automagically updated (which is a GOOD thing).  Changed over to the proper one and Xen 3.2.1 is running beautifully in CentOS 5.2 x86_64.

I enabled vtd=1 and have successfully done a PCI passthrough (pciback) to a HVM domU (Windows XP) for a video capture card device which is on the PCI Express bus.

Thank you VERY much, Ross!

Cheers,
Daniel

P.S. So the full instructions are for getting Xen 3.2.1 installed onto a fresh copy of CentOS 5.2 (without existing Xen packages):

1.
rpm -i http://bits.xensource.com/oss-xen/release/3.2.0/centos-5.1/xen-3.2.0-0xs.centos5.src.rpm 2> /dev/null
2. cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES ; wget http://bits.xensource.com/oss-xen/release/3.2.1/xen-3.2.1.tar.gz
3. vi ../SPECS/xen.spec
 i. Change "Version: 3.2.0" to "Version 3.2.1"
 ii. Change "Source0: xen-3.2.0.tar.gz" to "Source0: xen-3.2.1.tar.gz"
 iii. Uncomment "# /usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader" to "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader". (noted from previous threads to avoid rpmbuild error of unpackaged file)
4. yum -y install transfig texi2html tetex-latex gtk2-devel libaio-devel gnutls-devel (dependencies needed for rpmbuild of xen.spec in CentOS)
5. cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS ; rpmbuild -ba ./xen.spec
6. Grab some coffee...

... and come back to this:

Wrote: /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS/xen-3.2.1-0xs.src.rpm
Wrote: /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64/xen-3.2.1-0xs.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64/xen-libs-3.2.1-0xs.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64/xen-devel-3.2.1-0xs.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64/xen-debuginfo-3.2.1-0xs.x86_64.rpm
Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.xxxxxx
+ umask 022
+ cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD
+ cd xen-3.2.1
+ rm -rf /var/tmp/xen-3.2.1-0xs-root
+ exit 0


7. vi /etc/yum.conf and temporarily set "gpgcheck=0" to "gpgcheck=1" since RPMs aren't signed.
8. cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64 ; yum -y install xen-3.2.1-0xs.x86_64.rpm xen-libs-3.2.1-0xs.x86_64.rpm xen-devel-3.2.1-0xs.x86_64.rpm
9. vi /etc/yum.conf and set gpgcheck back to "gpgcheck=1".
10. vi /etc/grub.conf and change the "kernel" line to "kernel /xen.gz-3.2" or "kernel /xen.gz-3.2 vtd=1" or "kernel /xen.gz-3.2 vtd=1 msi_irq_enable=1" (one of the three depending if you want Intel VT-d and/or MSI/MSI-X enabled for capable systems) and make sure "default=" is pointed to the correct title. **Note: Double-check /boot/xen.gz-3.2 exists on your system!
11. Reboot.

Check Xen (xm dmesg) and see if you're golden.

12. Using yum, install virt-manager and/or virt-viewer to get all the CLI/GUI utilities!

Cheers,
Daniel

Ross S. W. Walker wrote:

Daniel Kao wrote:
 
  
Hi Ross,
 
Thank you very much for the reply.  It makes sense!  So let 
me break down the instructions:
 
1. rpm -i 
http://bits.xensource.com/oss-xen/release/3.2.0/centos-5.1/xen
    
-3.2.0-0xs.centos5.src.rpm 2> /dev/null
  
2. cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES ; wget 
http://bits.xensource.com/oss-xen/release/3.2.1/xen-3.2.1.tar.gz
3. vi ../SPECS/xen.spec
 i. Change "Version: 3.2.0" to "Version 3.2.1"
 ii. Change "Source0: xen-3.2.0.tar.gz" to "Source0: xen-3.2.1.tar.gz"
 iii. Uncomment "# /usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader" to 
"/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader". (noted from previous threads 
to avoid rpmbuild error of unpackaged file)
4. yum -y install transfig texi2html tetex-latex gtk2-devel 
libaio-devel gnutls-devel (dependencies needed for rpmbuild 
of xen.spec in CentOS)
5. cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS ; rpmbuild -ba ./xen.spec
6. Grab some coffee...
 
... and come back to this:
 
Wrote: /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS/xen-3.2.1-0xs.src.rpm
Wrote: /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64/xen-3.2.1-0xs.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64/xen-libs-3.2.1-0xs.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64/xen-devel-3.2.1-0xs.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64/xen-debuginfo-3.2.1-0xs.x86_64.rpm
Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.xxxxxx
+ umask 022
+ cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD
+ cd xen-3.2.1
+ rm -rf /var/tmp/xen-3.2.1-0xs-root
+ exit 0
 
7. vi /etc/yum.conf and temporarily set "gpgcheck=0" to 
"gpgcheck=1" since RPMs aren't signed.
8. cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64 ; yum -y install 
xen-3.2.1-0xs.x86_64.rpm xen-libs-3.2.1-0xs.x86_64.rpm 
xen-devel-3.2.1-0xs.x86_64.rpm
9. vi /etc/yum.conf and set gpgcheck back to "gpgcheck=1".
 
Reboot.
 
xend won't start now with the following in /var/log/xen/xend.log
 
[2008-07-17 16:30:23 7029] INFO (SrvDaemon:226) Xend stopped 
due to signal 15.
[2008-07-17 16:30:23 7870] INFO (SrvDaemon:331) Xend Daemon started
[2008-07-17 16:30:23 7870] INFO (SrvDaemon:335) Xend 
changeset: unavailable.
[2008-07-17 16:30:23 7870] INFO (SrvDaemon:342) Xend version: Unknown.
[2008-07-17 16:30:23 7870] 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 did a quick peek in /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen 
and all the Python tools looks to be correct with 3.2.1.
 
Any ideas?
    
 
Yes, almost perfect setup, except, need to edit /boot/grub/grub.conf
and switch all /boot/xen-3.1... references to /boot/xen-3.2...
the errors you saw are what happens when the newer libraries try
to access the older hypervisor.
 
-Ross
 
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