Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-06-19 Thread Bob Ball
Hi Qiaowei, > For question 1, I can clone XenAPI master to change it, and then compress it > .tar.gz to replace that in buildroot. I notice buildroot will re-build with > this > updated .tar.gz. :) So I guess it will solve how to add patch to latest XenAPI > and test it. That's a good way to do

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-06-18 Thread Ren, Qiaowei
On 2014-06-13, Ren, Qiaowei wrote: > On 2014-06-12, Bob Ball wrote: >>> 1) how can we add patches into XenAPI upstream and test them? >>> I noticed that buildroot project will download latest XenAPI tag >>> from github to build and package. But If I git clone latest XenAPI >>> code and change it, I

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-06-12 Thread Ren, Qiaowei
On 2014-06-12, Bob Ball wrote: >> 1) how can we add patches into XenAPI upstream and test them? >> I noticed that buildroot project will download latest XenAPI tag >> from github to build and package. But If I git clone latest XenAPI >> code and change it, I don't know how to have buildroot use our

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-11 Thread Ren, Qiaowei
Hi Bob, > > Ah - it seems that I forgot to add the debug patch file to the repository. > Unfortunately it seems the system I was using to write this patch has now > been re-installed. > > I'm not sure if it's needed, so please try again (I've removed the patch from > the > branch) and if it doe

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-11 Thread Ren, Qiaowei
Hi Bob, > > Ah - it seems that I forgot to add the debug patch file to the repository. > Unfortunately it seems the system I was using to write this patch has now > been re-installed. > > I'm not sure if it's needed, so please try again (I've removed the patch from > the > branch) and if it doe

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-11 Thread Bob Ball
iaowei [qiaowei@intel.com] Sent: 11 April 2014 06:48 To: Ren, Qiaowei; Bob Ball; Euan Harris Cc: xen-api@lists.xen.org Subject: RE: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI Hi Bob, > > > > > Just remove the "deps" file from the root and it will rebuild it and &g

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-10 Thread Ren, Qiaowei
Hi Bob, > > > > > Just remove the "deps" file from the root and it will rebuild it and > > all of the RPMS - you don't need to delete the directory. > > > > This is probably because I was actively developing it so the deps file > > was regularly rebuilt for me. > > > Oh, got it. I am trying. > I

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-10 Thread Ren, Qiaowei
Hi Bob, > > Just remove the "deps" file from the root and it will rebuild it and all of > the > RPMS - you don't need to delete the directory. > > This is probably because I was actively developing it so the deps file was > regularly rebuilt for me. > Oh, got it. I am trying. BTW, when I fini

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-10 Thread Bob Ball
m: Ren, Qiaowei [qiaowei@intel.com] Sent: 10 April 2014 01:45 To: Bob Ball; Euan Harris Cc: xen-api@lists.xen.org Subject: RE: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI Hi Bob, > > Yes to all of the below. > > If you're interested in testing it out, perhaps you can just try

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-09 Thread Ren, Qiaowei
Hi Bob, > > Yes to all of the below. > > If you're interested in testing it out, perhaps you can just try to use my > branch > from https://github.com/bobball/xenserver-core/tree/trunk-fix > > Pull requests welcome to fix anything that doesn't quite work yet! > > Bob > I tried your branch, a

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-09 Thread Ren, Qiaowei
anything that doesn't quite work yet! > > Bob > > > -Original Message- > > From: Ren, Qiaowei [mailto:qiaowei@intel.com] > > Sent: 09 April 2014 14:23 > > To: Bob Ball; Euan Harris > > Cc: xen-api@lists.xen.org > > Subject: RE: [Xen-API]

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-09 Thread Bob Ball
om: Ren, Qiaowei [mailto:qiaowei@intel.com] > Sent: 09 April 2014 14:23 > To: Bob Ball; Euan Harris > Cc: xen-api@lists.xen.org > Subject: RE: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI > > Hi Bob, > > > > > This sounds like it could be heading down a rabbi

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-09 Thread Ren, Qiaowei
Hi Bob, > > This sounds like it could be heading down a rabbit hole, trying to get > xenserver-core building from XAPI trunk. If I remember correctly, the current > issue is that you need to take a newer ocaml-xcp-idl. > > I've made a number of changes which I suspect you may need at > https://

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-09 Thread Bob Ball
7;ll be getting back to it soon I hope. Bob > -Original Message- > From: xen-api-boun...@lists.xen.org [mailto:xen-api- > boun...@lists.xen.org] On Behalf Of Ren, Qiaowei > Sent: 09 April 2014 04:33 > To: Euan Harris > Cc: xen-api@lists.xen.org > Subject: Re: [Xen-API]

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-08 Thread Ren, Qiaowei
Hi Euan, > > This is happening because building and installing xenserver-core does > not install xen-api's build dependencies. xenserver-core builds RPMs > in temporary chroot environments, using mock, so even though you have build > xen-api as part of xenserver-core, its dependencies were not

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-08 Thread Euan Harris
Forgot to attach the patch... Thanks, Euan On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 03:45:40PM +0100, Euan Harris wrote: > Hi, > > > I once asked Zheng Li for help. Thanks for Zheng's help.:) > > Zheng told me that we could build xenserver-core probject > > (https://github.com/xenserver/xenserver-core), with whi

Re: [Xen-API] Intel CQM feature enabling in XenAPI

2014-04-08 Thread Euan Harris
Hi, > I once asked Zheng Li for help. Thanks for Zheng's help.:) > Zheng told me that we could build xenserver-core probject > (https://github.com/xenserver/xenserver-core), with which we should be > able to build most xenserver components (including xapi) on a vanilla > CentOS. > > We tried this