Re: [opensuse-virtual] Xen hypervisor developement conforming to openSUSE

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 1:52 PM, PGNet wrote:

hi,

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:07 PM, John McDermott (U.S. Navy Employee) wrote:

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Is there a written description of what we should do differently than "make world" or "make install-xen", to make our prototype "YaST" conforming?

don't know if that helps at all ...

in my experience, the way-of-nonstandard-xen-on-suse is not well documented at all.

that said, the opemSUSE's distro-released xen,

rpm -qa | grep -i ^xen  xen-doc-html-3.3.1_18494_03-1.8  xen-doc-pdf-3.3.1_18494_03-1.8  xen-3.3.1_18494_03-1.8  xen-tools-3.3.1_18494_03-1.8  xen-libs-3.3.1_18494_03-1.8

runs well, and we're happy with the openSUSE-based 'alternatives' to, e.g., networking & bridging setup using the upstream-xen scripts.

as for released- or customized source, much of the openSUSE-friendliness is embodied in the rmp spec file

 zypper si xen  cat /usr/src/packages/SPECS/xen.spec  ...

&, of course, a "prep'd" build env can be had with,

 rpmbuild -bp /usr/src/packages/SPECS/xen.spec

one changes are _correctly_ made to that src tree, rpmbuild ... continues on with the build/install.

we've tried & failed to crowbar/full-replace prior versions of 'vanilla' upstream src into the suse build/install process, and have a correctly sync'd kernel-xen, and never got past problems.  ultimately we settled on starting with and mod'ing distro's xen src _because_ it's close-to-most-recent xen code, and interoperable with a 'modern' kernel (atm, 2.6.27.19-3.2-xen).

and, it works like a champ!

of course, _we_ will be very interested to hear knowledgeable responses from the *suse folks to your question.

Something to look into is build.opensuse.org (OBS - build service). You can link to the packages, apply your patch, and then it will build it on the fly in a completely clean/new jail. I use it for my stuff (non xen). There is also the osc command where you can do a lot of it from the command line. Stephen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-virtual+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-virtual+help@opensuse.org