[aur-general] Anyone got Xen working?
Hey guys, I am currently trying to setup Xen as I am trying to do a college assignment on Virtualisation using type 1 hyper visors. However none of the packages in AUR seem to want to install on either my PC or my Laptop (both running Arch (laptop is fresh x86 install)). Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Alan
Alan I think this is probably better asked in the Arch Forum, rather than the AUR mailing list. The Arch wiki has articles on xen,qemu and libvirt (which contains info on virt-manager as well) which would be a good starting point. If you still have issues, try the forum. -B On Thu 15 May 2014 07:30:00 PM EDT, Alan Jenkins wrote:
Hey guys,
I am currently trying to setup Xen as I am trying to do a college assignment on Virtualisation using type 1 hyper visors. However none of the packages in AUR seem to want to install on either my PC or my Laptop (both running Arch (laptop is fresh x86 install)).
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Alan
Hey Benjamin, Have been reading the wiki but not tried the forums yet. I will try posting there. The problem is none of the packages seem to build. Most getting stuck trying to gzip some non existant files. And on my PC they keep choking on gcc 4.9 (-V option apparently doesnt exist anymore). Thanks, Alan On 16 May 2014 00:45, Benjamin Cathey <becatlibra@gmail.com> wrote:
Alan
I think this is probably better asked in the Arch Forum, rather than the AUR mailing list. The Arch wiki has articles on xen,qemu and libvirt (which contains info on virt-manager as well) which would be a good starting point. If you still have issues, try the forum.
-B
On Thu 15 May 2014 07:30:00 PM EDT, Alan Jenkins wrote:
Hey guys,
I am currently trying to setup Xen as I am trying to do a college assignment on Virtualisation using type 1 hyper visors. However none of the packages in AUR seem to want to install on either my PC or my Laptop (both running Arch (laptop is fresh x86 install)).
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Alan
Alan, I have never tried Xen, but KVM through libvirt works great on Arch Linux. You don't need any packages from AUR. If your assigment is not tied to Xen, I recommend to go this way. -- Kind regards, Damian Nowak StratusHost www.AtlasHost.eu
Hey Nowaker, Unfortunately KVM requires CPU virtualisation extensions and the laptop I am using to install Xen does not have them. I am just having to use Xen's Para Virtualisation for the time being (if I can get any package to work). I have posted about the broken packages on the forums here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1415962#p1415962 Thanks for the suggestions and help so far =). On 16 May 2014 01:06, Nowaker <enwukaer@gmail.com> wrote:
Alan,
I have never tried Xen, but KVM through libvirt works great on Arch Linux. You don't need any packages from AUR. If your assigment is not tied to Xen, I recommend to go this way.
-- Kind regards, Damian Nowak StratusHost www.AtlasHost.eu
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:30:00AM +0100, Alan Jenkins wrote:
Any advice would be appreciated.
Remove -Werror and/or the entire CFLAGS line from build().
Hey Zack, Good call, I managed to get aur/xen to install by doing that on my Arch x86_64 PC. However still doesnt generate the files in boot on Arch 686 =/. Thanks, Alan On 16 May 2014 02:00, Zack Buhman <zack@buhman.org> wrote:
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:30:00AM +0100, Alan Jenkins wrote:
Any advice would be appreciated.
Remove -Werror and/or the entire CFLAGS line from build().
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:53 AM, Alan Jenkins <alan.james.jenkins@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Zack,
Good call, I managed to get aur/xen to install by doing that on my Arch x86_64 PC. However still doesnt generate the files in boot on Arch 686 =/.
Thanks,
Alan
On 16 May 2014 02:00, Zack Buhman <zack@buhman.org> wrote:
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:30:00AM +0100, Alan Jenkins wrote:
Any advice would be appreciated.
Remove -Werror and/or the entire CFLAGS line from build().
Bit late to the discussion, but... The official kernel has Xen Dom0 enabled and the support tools are in community. Wouldn't that work for you, Alan? -- http://about.me/palopezv
Hey Pedro, Not 100% certain but I believe that the Xen hyper visor is separate from the Dom0 kernel or atleast that is the way it works on the install I have managed. You have to setup grub to call Xen. Xen then calls the Dom0 kernel which you can use to administer the machine and setup DomU's. The problem was that the xen packages were not building the Xen component and I have yet to actually get it to build on 686. But thanks to Zack's recomendation of removing the CFLAGS line in build I did manage to get it to build and install on x86_64. Thanks, Alan On 16 May 2014 22:08, Pedro Alejandro López-Valencia <palopezv@gmail.com>wrote:
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:53 AM, Alan Jenkins <alan.james.jenkins@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Zack,
Good call, I managed to get aur/xen to install by doing that on my Arch x86_64 PC. However still doesnt generate the files in boot on Arch 686 =/.
Thanks,
Alan
On 16 May 2014 02:00, Zack Buhman <zack@buhman.org> wrote:
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:30:00AM +0100, Alan Jenkins wrote:
Any advice would be appreciated.
Remove -Werror and/or the entire CFLAGS line from build().
Bit late to the discussion, but... The official kernel has Xen Dom0 enabled and the support tools are in community. Wouldn't that work for you, Alan?
participants (5)
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Alan Jenkins
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Benjamin Cathey
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Nowaker
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Pedro Alejandro López-Valencia
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Zack Buhman