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This may or may not address your problem but it worked for Ubuntu systems with a similar requirement, build once and distribute.

Apply the attached patch (not mine) to xen 4.0.1.rc3.pre and then build using:

export KERNELS="" ; export PYTHON_PREFIX_ARG="" ; make dist

This generates a dist dir that puts everything in the right place for Ubuntu systems. I know the sysconfig/default changes apply to debian as well, the ones I'm not sure about are the python lib location move.

This patch works for 4.0.0 and 4.0.1.rc3.pre, but not 4.1.

-Bruce

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Debasish Bose <dbose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Guys,
I've successfully ran dom0/domU (both Debian) in my local laptop using 2.6.32.15 dom0 with xen-4.0.1-rc3-pre. Great. Now I want to install it into couple of test-machines without compiling from source. So I did following..

a. make dist-xen
b. make dist-tools PYTHON_PREFIX_ARG="--install-layout=deb"
c. make dist-stubdom

This should pre-pare my dist/ directory with binaries. With the help of top-level /.install.sh I should be able to install it any other machine (same ARCH=x86_64/amd64). I've tar-zipped, copied and inflated. The target machine is a CentOS 64-bit machine whereas the build machine (my laptop) is a Debian/Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit one. After installation, my xend started, bridge-magic happened, `brctl -show` is fine, xm info / xm list is fine, ls /dev/xen is fine (evtchn,gntdev) too. But when I'm trying
to run a domU (using a working domU-xmexample-config) it has some problem with tap driver config and complains

"ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack"

/var/log/xen/xend.log

File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/xen/xend/XendConfig.py", line 342, in __init__
self._sxp_to_xapi(sxp_obj)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/xen/xend/XendConfig.py", line 857, in _sxp_to_xapi
cfg = self._parse_sxp(sxp_cfg)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/xen/xend/XendConfig.py", line 720, in _parse_sxp
self.device_add(dev_type, cfg_sxp = config, target = cfg)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/xen/xend/XendConfig.py", line 1448, in device_add
ret_uuid = self.device_duplicate_check(dev_type, dev_info, target, config)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/xen/xend/XendConfig.py", line 1237, in device_duplicate_check
blkdev_file = blkdev_uname_to_file(dev_uname)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/xen/util/blkif.py", line 95, in blkdev_uname_to_file
return _parse_uname(uname)[0]
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/xen/util/blkif.py", line 90, in _parse_uname
(taptype, fn) = fn.split(":", 2)[1:3]
ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack

in xmexample config,

kernel = "/vm/tmp/vmlinuz-2.6.32.15-domU-deb"
ramdisk = "/vm/tmp/initrd.img-2.6.32.15-domU-deb"
memory = 256
name = "debdomU"
vif = [ 'mac=6A:60:41:4A:60:41,ip=172.16.30.201,bridge=eth1' ]
disk = [ "tap:aio:/vm/tmp/core.img,xvda1,w" , "tap:aio:/vm/tmp/swap.img,xvda2,w" ]
dhcp="dhcp"
netmask="255.255.255.0"
gateway="172.16.30.10"
hostname= "dbose-domU"
root="/dev/xvda1 ro"
extra = "3 console=hvc0"

vmlinuz/initrd/core.img/swap.img are made on Ubuntu and just copied over.

The same config worked earlier on a ubuntu-dom0/ubuntu-domU setup. Is this something to do with CentOS-dom0/Ubuntu-domU? Is copying binaries (pyc) built in Ubuntu wrong? Then how even xend/xendomains got started? If xend started with same python tool chain, what's wrong with domU booting up?

Please help me guys. Should I re-compile?

-Thanks
Deb
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