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

[Ross Smith]

Me again,

Well, the installation went pretty well but there was an error during
the installation with iscsi:
"Failed to install iscsi-initiator-utils RPM
See /tmp/OFED.6760.logs/iscsi-initiator-utils.rpminstall.log "

Removing open-iscsi seemed to get around this, and the version
included with OFED is slighly newer, so fingers crossed it won't cause
any problems:
# yum remove open-iscsi

Tomorrow I'll see if it plays nicely with Xen.

Ross


On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Ross Smith<myxiplx at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Vladimir, that sounds very neat and tidy :-)
>
> I'll be sure to let the list know how my testing goes with XenServer.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Vladimir
> Sokolovsky<vlad at dev.mellanox.co.il> wrote:
>> Ross Smith wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>> Hi Ross,
>> After installing OFED-1.4.1 you will have binary RPMs under
>> OFED-1.4.1/RPMS/... directory.
>> So, to install OFED-1.4.1 on the live server you should run the
>> same install command (from the same OFED-1.4.1 directory;
>> you can copy it to the live server if it is not accessible through NFS)
>> on your server and it will install binary RPMs that were previously
>> created.
>> It will not require kernel sources on the live server.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vladimir
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
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