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Re: Call for testing: Xen 4.0



I started packaging Xen 4.0.
Attached is the package for xenkernel40.
Untar it under sysutils.

I am puzzle'd why MAKE_ENV in the Makefile has no effect,
hence resulting in a build error 'python: not found'.

Christoph



On 10.04.10 05:22, Dustin Marquess wrote:
> A couple of other notes:
> 
> =====
> Since Xen 4.0 is "out" now, we probably want the xen-4.0-testing.hg trunk
> instead:
> 
> hg clone http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-4.0-testing.hg
> 
> Or probably the release from:
> http://bits.xensource.com/oss-xen/release/4.0.0/xen-4.0.0.tar.gz
> =====
> 
> =====
> As Adam mentioned, it wants git installed also
> =====
> 
> =====
> It also wants sysutils/acpica-utils installed (the pkgsrc version is
> slightly older than the latest, I hacked my pkgsrc copy up to use the
> latest).
> 
> One gotcha: sysutils/acpica-utils installs the binary 'acpi-iasl'.  Xen
> looks for 'iasl'.  You can either
> change tools/firmware/hvmloader/acpi/Makefile or symlink it.
> =====
> 
> =====
> tools/blktap2 is enabled for NetBSD, however a lot of the files in that
> directory rely on strnlen(), which isn't supplied in NetBSD.  I tried
> linking them against the copy in xen/common/string.o, but that failed:
> 
> ld: vhd-util: hidden symbol `strnlen' in ../../../xen/common/string.o is
> referenced by DSO
> ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output
> 
> I'm probably doing something stupid there.
> =====
> 
> =====
> PCI passthrough doesn't seem to work, even with sysutils/pciutils installed:
> 
> gmake[4]: Entering directory
> `/root/xen-4.0-testing.hg/tools/ioemu-remote/i386-dm'
> ../xen-hooks.mak:56: === pciutils-dev package not found - missing
> /usr/include/pci
> ../xen-hooks.mak:57: === PCI passthrough capability has been disabled
> ../xen-hooks.mak:56: === pciutils-dev package not found - missing
> /usr/include/pci
> ../xen-hooks.mak:57: === PCI passthrough capability has been disabled
> 
> I don't have VT-i anyways...
> =====
> 
> =====
> It looks for SDL (devel/SDL), but I'm not sure what having that enables? I'm
> guessing this is for people running X11 in their dom0.
> =====
> 
> =====
> The xc extension in tools/python blows up:
> 
> building 'xc' extension
> gcc -DNDEBUG -O2 -O2 -pipe -w -march=k8 -DHAVE_DB_185_H -I/usr/include
> -I/usr/pkg/include -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -m64 -fno-strict-aliasing
> -std=gnu99 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-unused-value
> -Wdeclaration-after-statement -D__XEN_TOOLS__ -MMD -MF .buildpy.d -fPIC
> -I../../tools/libxc -I../../tools/xenstore -I../../tools/include
> -Ixen/lowlevel/xc -I/usr/pkg/include/python2.6 -c xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c -o
> build/temp.netbsd-5.0_STABLE-amd64-2.6/xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.o
> -fno-strict-aliasing -Werror
> xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c: In function 'pyxc_vcpu_setaffinity':
> xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c:253: error: too many arguments to function
> 'xc_vcpu_setaffinity'
> xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c: In function 'pyxc_vcpu_getinfo':
> xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c:402: error: too many arguments to function
> 'xc_vcpu_getaffinity'
> xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c: In function 'pyxc_hvm_build':
> xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c:948: error: 'HVM_MAX_VCPUS' undeclared (first use in
> this function)
> xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c:948: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported
> only once
> xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c:948: error: for each function it appears in.)
> xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c:1001: error: 'struct hvm_info_table' has no member
> named 'vcpu_online'
> xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c: In function 'pyxc_physinfo':
> xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c:1195: error: 'xc_physinfo_t' has no member named
> 'max_node_id'
> xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c:1233: error: 'xc_physinfo_t' has no member named
> 'max_node_id'
> xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c: In function 'pyxc_xeninfo':
> xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c:1262: error: 'xen_commandline_t' undeclared (first use
> in this function)
> xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c:1262: error: expected ';' before 'xen_commandline'
> xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c:1284: error: 'XENVER_commandline' undeclared (first use
> in this function)
> xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c:1284: error: 'xen_commandline' undeclared (first use in
> this function)
> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
> gmake[3]: *** [buildpy] Error 1
> =====
> 
> This, alas, is as far as I got tonight.
> 
> -Dustin
> 
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Dustin Marquess 
> <dmarquess%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Adam Hamsik <haaaad%gmail.com@localhost> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> 1) There is a problem during xen kernel link
>>> rc/xen-unstable.hg/xen/Rules.mk -C arch/x86
>>> /root/src/xen-unstable.hg/xen/xen
>>> gmake[3]: Entering directory `/root/src/xen-unstable.hg/xen/arch/x86'
>>> gmake -f /root/src/xen-unstable.hg/xen/Rules.mk -C
>>> /root/src/xen-unstable.hg/xen/arch/x86/boot built_in.o
>>> gmake[4]: Entering directory `/root/src/xen-unstable.hg/xen/arch/x86/boot'
>>> RELOC= gmake -f build32.mk reloc.S
>>> gmake[5]: Entering directory `/root/src/xen-unstable.hg/xen/arch/x86/boot'
>>> gcc  -O1 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -m32
>>> -march=i686 -g -fno-strict-aliasing -std=gnu99 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
>>> -Wno-unused-value -Wdeclaration-after-statement  -fno-stack-protector
>>> -Werror -fno-builtin -msoft-float -c reloc.c -o reloc.o
>>> ld -melf_i386 -N -Ttext  -o reloc.lnk reloc.o
>>> ld: invalid hex number `-o'
>>> gmake[5]: *** [reloc.lnk] Error 1
>>> gmake[5]: Leaving directory `/root/src/xen-unstable.hg/xen/arch/x86/boot'
>>> gmake[4]: *** [reloc.S] Error 2
>>> gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/root/src/xen-unstable.hg/xen/arch/x86/boot'
>>> gmake[3]: *** [/root/src/xen-unstable.hg/xen/arch/x86/boot/built_in.o]
>>> Error 2
>>> gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/root/src/xen-unstable.hg/xen/arch/x86'
>>> gmake[2]: *** [/root/src/xen-unstable.hg/xen/xen] Error 2
>>> gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/root/src/xen-unstable.hg/xen'
>>> gmake[1]: *** [install] Error 2
>>> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/root/src/xen-unstable.hg/xen'
>>>
>>
>> This problem is xen/arch/x86/boot/build32.mk calls ld with:
>>
>> -Ttext $(RELOC) -o
>>
>> RELOC is set in xen/arch/x86/boot/Makefile to $(BOOT_TRAMPOLINE), which is
>> also set in that file:
>>
>> BOOT_TRAMPOLINE := $(shell sed -n
>> 's,^\#define[[:space:]]\+BOOT_TRAMPOLINE[[:space:]]\+,,p'
>> $(BASEDIR)/include/asm-x86/config.h)
>>
>> NetBSD's core 'sed' doesn't seem to like that.  Using gsed seems to work.
>>
>> So there's 3 fixes:
>>
>> 1) Change sed to gsed and make gsed a requirement (seems icky)
>> 2) Hard-code BOOT_TRAMPOLINE to 0x88000 (seems ickier)
>> 3) Fix the sed invocation to make it core NetBSD sed friendly.  This seems
>> like the right solution, but beyond my sed knowledge.  Any takers?
>>
>> -Dustin
>>
>>>
>>
>>
> 

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