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

[Michael Chung]

Thanks All. I used SDK not DDK. I am downloading it now.

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Aug 19, 2010, at 11:35 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 07:19 +0100, Justin Pettit 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.  :-)
> >
> > The DDK comes preinstalled with the necessary kernel-{xen,kdump}-devel
> > RPMs, which should be sufficient to build any out of tree modules, the
> > full source should not be required.
> >
> > If those devel packages are missing then there is a bug in the DDK.
>
> Yes, I think I was conflating two different issues.  A few weeks back, I
> needed to modify a XenServer kernel module and was surprised that the kernel
> sources were not included in the DDK.  This was unrelated to building OVS
> against XenServer for which one only needs the headers.  Sorry for the
> confusion.
>
> --Justin
>
>
>
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