XAPI On CentOS 6

There is a project to get XCP running on CentOS 6.3

Meeting

To track progress, we will meet:

• #centos-devel on freenode
• Tuesdays at 17.00 - 17.30 UTC

The current agenda:

• Progress with building
• Progress with packing
• Other related packages
  • OCAML, OPAM
  • OVS

To add more agenda items, please add above, or email John Garbutt.

Past Meetings

Wednesday 8th May 2013

• Status reports:
  • mcclurmc: No update
  • johnthetubaguy: No update
  • Azrael: No update
  • djs55: I've got xapi talking to libvirt and to libxl via a specially modified xenopsd. I've also got a xapi storage API to libvirt adapter, and I'm able to run VMs on ceph now. Frediano is busy backporting some libxl and libvirt stability fixes recommended by Stefano.
    • johnthetubaguy recommends his xcp dev install scripts: https://github.com/johngarbutt/xcp-devinstall
  • djs55: only problems are: (1) missing stability fixes [ but I think frediano is making progress ]; (2) a few minor tweaks still being discussed upstream; and (3) I needed to turn ceph support on (hard-coded off in the SRPM)
  • Azrael: i have been afk for a bit, but i will be back to first attempts at packaging stuff in opam-repo-dev/tree/master/packages tomorrow
  • johnthetubaguy: Maybe look at OPAM first?
  • djs55: opam-repo-dev stuff could just be a build dependency
  • z00dax and djs55 to talk about packaging options

Tuesday 30th April 2013

• Progress building XAPI:
  • mcclurmc to try johnthetubaguy scripts next week
  • libvirt + XenAPI work to be discussed next week
• Packaging
  • mcclurmc: chatted last week with Azrael last week
  • hugesjr: completed previous OCAML work
  • hugesjr: latest 0.10.2.4 from fedora libvirt built, still broken, but less broken, can find it here: http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/libvirt-c6xen/

Tuesday 26th March 2013

• Progress building XAPI:
  • new OCAML 4.00.1 rpms look good
  • Created a script to automate build and install: https://github.com/johngarbutt/xcp-devinstall
  • johnthetubaguy blocked by issues with xenstore and vif plug scripts
  • mcclurmc: taking a look vif plug issues
• Packaging
  • hughesjr: moving OCAML 4.00.1 into Xen repo, and getting ocaml-find from fedora
  • hughesjr: also going to try and build xen with ocaml to get oxenstored, should fix johnthetubaguy xenstore issue
  • hughesjr: adding critical xen patches (http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-03/msg01592.html)

Tuesday 19th March 2013

• Progress building XAPI:
  • permissions issues solved: issue with libvhd linking
  • xenstore issues hit with latest ocaml bindings to xenstore
  • possibly issues with VIF plug scripts
  • johnthetubaguy: to email list about move to ocamlxenstore
• Packaging
  • no progress on libvirt
  • OCAML current 3.12.1 rpm is missing deps to build OPAM (compiler-libs)
  • z00dax trying fedora-19 OCAML build
  • will need to update other ocaml-* packages too
• Informal meet up in Cambridge, Friday 22nd, contact mcclurmc for details

Tuesday 12th March 2013

• Progress:
  • permissions issues, possible fix, storage not quite working, OVS not quite working, VM not quite starting
  • agreed success criteria: VM working, with OVS vif, VHD disk (+ maybe raw iSCSI disk)
• Packaging:
  • work on OCAML 4.00.1 (or 3.12.1)
  • OPAM is probably not needed for the rpm packaging, but may need omake, ocamlfind and others
  • try to avoid automake etc. upgrade, only needed for OPAM
  • Others: wait till we have a working prototype
• Next meeting:
  • same time next week

Tuesday 5th March 2013

• Quick update, only Mike and John present

Related Pages

XCP Building Instructions