Hello --
I've been working to establish a working build environment for the XenAPI
on a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 x64 server instance. The various steps needed to
compile Xen, a custom kernel, update grub and manage Xen using the
*xl* toolstack
is not foreign to me. My near-term goal is to implement one of the
open-source management tools reliant on XenAPI (openstack / cloudstack /
etc.), with a more long-term goal of the creation of additional features.
Here's an outline of the steps I've taken thus far:
- Installed Ubuntu 12.04 x64 server, final
- Downloaded, configured, compiled and installed Linux Kernel 3.3.4
including the various required options for running Xen
- Are there any unique requirements for XenAPI beyond that of a Dom0
kernel for Xen?
- Downloaded, configured, compiled and installed Xen 4.1.2.
- Modified the GRUB bootloader appropriately, and booted into the system.
- Followed the outline of steps from the Xen Wiki entry for XCP
toolstack compilation
- http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Compile_the_XCP_toolstack_from_source\
- Note: During the building process, a number of errors surfaced.
- A message about unexpected patches was displayed when processing
"xen-api-1.3.2". A crude workaround was simply to add a bit
of code to
*dpkg-source* to detect this condition when processing this
package and commit the code. This was the only instance
where the message
occurred.
- The file *cachelocation* was not found under the
*./tmp-debs/* directory.
There as no clear direction on what this should be, so I
simply created an
empty file. This allowed the process to continue.
- pbuilder complained about an untrusted *local* source. I added
an option to the .rc file to allow untrusted sources, and it seemed to
solve the problem.
- Various packages not mentioned or required for any non-XAPI Xen
operation were missing. Through trial and error, I compiled a list of
packages and installed them.
- After these steps, I ended up with a number of *.deb* packages and
a successful completion of the make process.
- Installed the packages produced from the previous step.
- *Stuck on this error*: Getting an error from *xcp-networkd*
- Fatal error: exception Failure("ERROR: network backend unknown()")
I hope that the formatting from within the gmail client transferred into
this message, otherwise the block above might be unwieldy.
Regardless, any insight, assistance, or direction would be greatly
appreciated.
Happy hacking.
--Bill
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