Re: [gentoo-user] Making XEN functional

[Nilesh Govindrajan]

On 23-Mar-2014 5:46 pm, "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
>
> On Sunday, March 23, 2014 07:53:22 AM Facundo Curti wrote:
> > Hi list! :) First at all, I apologize if my english is not perfect,
> > I know i'm not the only non-english speak on list, but I apologize any
> > way jeje :P
> >
> > I'm trying to install XEN for first time on my gentoo desktop machine.
> > my hardware specs to take into consideration are:
> >     i7 proccessor - 4GB ram
> >     SDD disk parted using GPT
> >     EFI mother. But also supports boot like BIOS.
> >
> > I'm following the guide from wiki for firsts steeps [1], but having in
> > consideration the xen doc [2] and arch wiki [3].
> >
> > The question is that I'm having 2 problems :/
> >
> > First: I installed xen, and xen-tools. But I don't know why now I cant
> > recompile xen-tools ._. The output is [tmp1]. I just can see a "econf
> > failed", but I cant find how to fix it. My
> > emerge --info '=app-emulation/xen-tools-4.3.1-r5::gentoo' is [tmp2]
> > emerge -pqv '=app-emulation/xen-tools-4.3.1-r5::gentoo' is [tmp3]
> > /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-4.3.1-r5/temp/build.log [tmp4]
> > /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-4.3.1-r5/temp/environment[tmp5]
>
> I see this in "tmp":
> *****
> checking whether the C compiler works... no
> configure: error: in `/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-4.3.1-
> r5/work/xen-4.3.1/tools':
> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> ******
>
> Please fix your C-compiler. What does the following command return?
> # gcc-config -L
>
> > But really, this is my minor problem :/ XEN does not work at all :P
> >
> > I re-emerged all my system with emerge -e world, compiled my kernel,
> > and configured grub. The system looks like starts with XEN. (When I
> > boot the system, shows something about XEN that I cant read, and next
> > starts loading the kernel).
> >
> > Once in the system, I try to make a xm list, xm show and also I try to
> > execute xend from a console. But every one says:
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/sbin/xend", line 36, in <module>
> >     from xen.xend.server import SrvDaemon
> > ImportError: No module named xen.xend.server
> >
> > Looks like XEN can't find the modules, but I cant find where XEN stores
> > it :/ I made a
> >   find / xen.xend
>
> Please use the " xl"  command set. " xm" is deprecated.
>
> Please also ensure you start the xen services:
> # /etc/init.d/xencommons start
> # /etc/init.d/xenstored start
> # /etc/init.d/xenconsoled start
>
> before trying the xl commands.
>
> > and this give me 0 results. maybe this wasn't installed?
> >
> > My .config from kernel is [configKernel] and my [grub.cfg]
>
> I will check those if the above didn't solve it.
>
> I have the following installed on my server:
> [I] app-emulation/xen
>      Installed versions:  4.3.1-r5^t{tbz2}(12:09:22 PM 02/21/2014)
> (efi -custom-cflags -debug -flask -xsm)
>
> [I] app-emulation/xen-tools
>   Installed versions:  4.3.1-r5^t{tbz2}(12:14:51 PM 02/21/2014)
> (api hvm pam qemu screen -custom-cflags -debug -doc -flask -ocaml -pygrub
-
> python -static-libs -xend
> PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7 -python2_6" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 -
> python2_6")
>
> --
> Joost
>

I'm not meaning to hijack this thread, but isn't KVM a better option? The
difference between Xen and KVM is tiny I think, no?