On 23-Mar-2014 5:46 pm, "J. Roeleveld" <jo...@antarean.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?