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

[Ross Smith]

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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