[ofa-general] Re: Installing OFED 1.4.1 in XenServer

[Ross Smith]

Replying to my own email since I've made progress and now have a new question.

OFED 1.4.1 compiles and installs find under the XenServer 5.5 DDK.  My
question now is how do I transfer these drivers to a live server?

Are there details anywhere about what files need transferring, and how
they should be loaded?

Alternatively, do I need to attempt to transfer the relevant kernel
source files from the XenServer DDK to a live server?

thanks,

Ross



On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Ross Smith<myxiplx at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm very new to Linux, and trying to install OFED in XenServer, is
> anybody able to help out?
>
> XenServer is based on CentOS 5.2, and I'm informed that it should be
> possible to install this version of OFED, but I'm struggling to get
> the installation to compile.
>
> I believe the proper way to compile the drivers is to use the Citrix
> Driver Development Kit, which includes all the source for XenServer.
> However that's supplied as a 2GB virtual machine, and runs out of disk
> space if I try to install the OFED prerequisits.
>
> So instead I'm trying to compile it directly on Dom0 of a XenServer.
> The prerequisits have installed fine, but the install.pl script fails
> with:
>
> "/lib/modules/2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.xs5.0.0.426.647xen/build/scripts is
> required to build kernel-ib RPM.
> Please install the corresponding kernel-source or kernel-devel RPM."
>
> On the DDK, I can see that those folders all exist, but I can't find
> how to install those on a live server.  I've found
> kernel-2.6.18.92.1.10.el5.xs5.0.0.426.647.src.rpm on the DDK source
> disk, but installing that does not help.
>
> If I were to simply copy the files from the DDK to the live server,
> could somebody advise me on what I would need to copy.  Do I need
> anything outside of the /lib/modules/... directory?
>
> thanks,
>
> Ross
>