[ovs-discuss] [installation problem] Installation of OVS 2.3.1 from the tarball on Citrix Xen Server 6.5

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:14:18AM +0800, GosenChien-IMAP wrote:
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> Ben Pfaff 於 西元2015年04月15日 10:52 寫道:
> >On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 09:24:14PM +0800, Po-Ching Lin wrote:
> >>          We recently tried to install OpenvSwitch 2.3.1 on Citrix Xen Server 6.5.
> >>We followed the instructions in INSTALL.XenServer, and the reproduced steps
> >>are as follows. The main problem is that the directory /lib/modules/xen/build is
> >>missing. Please suggest the method to address this issue. Thanks a lot.
> >>
> >>[Reproduced steps]
> >>1. According to INSTALL.XenServer from the OVS tarball, put the tarball package to the "/usr/src/redhat/SOURCE/" folder and extract it;
> >>2. Enter the "openvswitch-2.3.1/xenserver/" folder;
> >>3. Add the kernel version in line 70 of the file "openvswitch.spec";
> >Where did step 3 come from?  It isn't mentioned in INSTALL.XenServer.
> Yes , it didn't mention in the INSTALL.XenServer.
> However, we found during the building process, the program would tell us
> that it could not found the kernel version so that we modified the file.
> >Requires: kernel-%{kernel_name} = *3.10.41-323.380416**<-- we change this

Did you continue reading in the instructions?  The "Build Parameters"
section has a few details, including some specific to XenServer 6.5 and
above.