Had another job to do but I’m back again. I’m in the process of trying to compile xen-4.0.0 on my fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Downloaded and extracted the source code and started on the README file, as you do. This time I have taken much more care to ensure I have the pre-requisites listed. Mind you, this is a bit of an art in itself…asking for a development install of x11 translates into which packages exactly?<\/p>\n
I’ve been using the Synaptic Package Manager on Ubuntu and it’s built-in search function to make educated guesses about what was required. I have saved the log file of what I chose, to be thorough.<\/p>\n
So continuing with a “make world” trundles along for a while before failing because of After it’s done all it’s git stuff it stops again, this time with the prompt<\/p>\n Lets give that a whirl, and the next one<\/p>\n followed by<\/p>\n I’m typing these in as they crop up. How many more I wonder? Makefile must be slightly out of date.<\/p>\n OK, this is getting tedious, skip the rest except to say I chose Virtual PCI for the backend.<\/p>\n The next error is<\/p>\n which doesn’t stop it in it’s tracks swiftly followed by<\/p>\n shortly after which it stops.<\/p>\n Both the above easy to rectify by installed I’ve re-typed That can be fixed by installing the Which is fixed by installing the This next one looks a bit more tricky. All kinds of confusion following from Running a find for Next it complains that And there at last we seem to have it! Although LateX is required for the documentation, it says.<\/p>\n I started this session at 20:46 and it is now 23:31 so that’s how long it took me to build Xen. Haven’t tested it yet though \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Had another job to do but I’m back again. I’m in the process of trying to compile xen-4.0.0 on my fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Downloaded and extracted the source code and started on the README file, as you … Continue reading \/bin\/sh: git: not found<\/code>. This is an easy fix by installing git-core<\/code> package. Guess the README missed that one.<\/p>\nEnable support for Xen PCI passthrough devices (XEN_PCI_PASSTHROUGH) [N\/y\/?] (NEW)<\/code>.<\/p>\nParavirtualization layer for spinlocks (PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS) [N\/y\/?] (NEW)<\/code><\/p>\nXen PCI Frontend (XEN_PCIDEV_FRONTEND) [N\/m\/y\/?] (NEW)<\/code><\/p>\nSCSI tape drive support for Smart Array 5xxx (CISS_SCSI_TAPE) [N\/y\/?] (NEW)<\/code>
\nFusion MPT ScsiHost drivers for FC (FUSION_FC) [N\/m\/y\/?] (NEW)<\/code>
\nMaximum number of scatter gather entries (16-128) (FUSION_MAX_SGE) [128] (NEW)<\/code>
\nFusion MPT misc device (ioctl) driver (FUSION_CTL) [N\/m\/y\/?] (NEW)<\/code>
\nFusion MPT logging facility (FUSION_LOGGING) [N\/y\/?] (NEW)<\/code>
\nNet channel 2 support (XEN_NETCHANNEL2) [N\/m\/y\/?] (NEW)<\/code><\/p>\n*** check_uuid_devel FAILED: missing uuid headers (package uuid-dev)<\/code><\/p>\n*** check_xgettext FAILED: can't find xgettext<\/code><\/p>\nuuid-dev<\/code> package and gettext<\/code> package. More minus points for the README file.<\/p>\nmake<\/code> at this point (not make world<\/code> because I don’t want to answer all those questions again). Soon falls over again though in the firmware section with<\/p>\nRequire dev86 rpm or bin86 & bcc debs version >= 0.16.14 to build firmware!<\/code><\/p>\nbcc<\/code> package and it’s dependency.<\/p>\nNext stop, need to Download and install Intel ACPI CA<\/code><\/p>\niasl<\/code> package.<\/p>\nxen\/lowlevel\/xc\/xc.c:7:20:error: Python.h: No such file or directory<\/code><\/p>\nPython.h<\/code> reveals one in \/usr\/include\/python3.1\/Python.h<\/code>. There is a \/usr\/include\/python2.6<\/code> directory but there was no Python.h<\/code> in there. Thanks to Google that is quickly solved by installing the python2.6-dev<\/code> package.<\/p>\nmakeinfo<\/code> is missing, fixed by installing the texinfo<\/code> package.<\/p>\n