[ovs-discuss] Cannot build Open vSwitch on XenServer 5.6

[Michael Chung]

Hi Justin,

Thanks for your reply. But I cannot find the RPM in the iso.

 When I open the iso, there are only same doc and the VM image, not rpm.
Have you try it in xenserver 5.6?

Thank you very much!

Michael

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com> wrote:

> My guess is that you haven't installed the kernel source RPMs into the DDK.
>  They're typically on one of the source ISOs with a name like
> kernel-2.6.*.src.rpm.  I don't know why they're not included by default in
> the DDK, either.  :-)
>
> --Justin
>
>
> On Aug 19, 2010, at 11:13 PM, Michael Chung wrote:
>
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I downloaded the Open vSwitch and uploaded to the xenserver 5.6 ddk
> (XenServer SDK 5.6.0-31188p).
> >
> > I followed the steps in
> http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=blob_plain;f=INSTALL.XenServer;hb=HEAD
> >
> > But I got the following error message,
> >
> > checking whether gcc accepts -Wno-unused... yes
> > checking for Linux 2.6 build directory... no
> > configure: error: source dir
> /lib/modules/2.6.27.42-0.1.1.xs5.6.0.44.111158xen/build doesn't exist
> > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.53473 (%build)
> >
> > RPM build errors:
> >     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.53473 (%build)
> >
> > I checked the path /lib/modules/2.6.27.42-0.1.1.xs5.6.0.44.111158xen/,
> there are not build exist.
> >
> > Does in mean this is not supported to build open vswitch in xenserver
> 5.6.
> >
> > Thank you very much!
> >
> > Michael
> > _______________________________________________
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> > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_openvswitch.org
>
>
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