XPDS13: Xenserver-core: What it is, how it is built and how to get involved - Euan Harris, Citrix

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xenserver-core What it is, how it is built and how to get involved

Euan Harris

What is xenserver-core?

DOM0

QEMU

Drivers

XAPI

Third party

components

HA

Storage

Manager

xenserver-core

(Xapi and friends)

Virtualization

base packages

(Xen, Qemu, libvirt)

Base Linux distribution

xenserver-core

(Xapi and friends)

“Xen4CentOS”

extra packages

CentOS 6.4

xenserver-core

general model

xenserver-core

on CentOS

How can I get it?

yum install xenserver-core

apt-get install xenserver-core

Why?

How can I build it?

git clone xenserver-core

$ git clone https://github.com/ \

xapi-project/xenserver-core.git

$ cd xenserver-core

$ ./configure.sh

$ ./makemake.py > Makefile

$ make

...

[CURL] SOURCES/libvhd-0.9.1.tar.gz

[RPMBUILD] SRPMS/ocaml-libvhd-0.9.1-1.src.rpm

[MOCK] RPMS/x86_64/ocaml-libvhd-0.9.1-1.x86_64.rpm

[CREATEREPO] RPMS/x86_64/ocaml-libvhd-0.9.1-1.x86_64.rpm

...

foo.spec

foo-1.patch

rpmbuild foo.srpm foo.tgz

foo.rpm foo.rpm

mock foo.rpm foo.srpm

Name: ocaml-qmp

Version: 0.9.1

Release: 1

...

BuildRequires: ocaml ocaml-findlib ocaml-obuild

ocaml-yojson-devel cmdliner-devel ocaml-ounit-devel

./SRPMS/ocaml-qmp-0.9.1-1.src.rpm: ./SPECS/ocaml-qmp.spec

./SOURCES/ocaml-qmp-0.9.1.tar.gz

./SOURCES/ocaml-qmp-0.9.1.tar.gz: ./SPECS/ocaml-qmp.spec

@curl -o $@ https://github.com/xapi-project/ocaml-

qmp/archive/0.9.1/ocaml-qmp-0.9.1.tar.gz

./RPMS/x86_64/ocaml-qmp-0.9.1-1.x86_64.rpm: ./SRPMS/ocaml-

qmp-0.9.1-1.src.rpm

./RPMS/x86_64/ocaml-qmp-devel-0.9.1-1.x86_64.rpm:

./SRPMS/ocaml-qmp-0.9.1-1.src.rpm

./RPMS/x86_64/ocaml-qmp-0.9.1-1.x86_64.rpm:

./RPMS/x86_64/ocaml-obuild-0.0.2-1.x86_64.rpm

./RPMS/x86_64/ocaml-qmp-0.9.1-1.x86_64.rpm:

./RPMS/x86_64/ocaml-yojson-devel-1.1.6-1.x86_64.rpm

./RPMS/x86_64/ocaml-qmp-0.9.1-1.x86_64.rpm:

./RPMS/x86_64/cmdliner-devel-0.9.3-1.x86_64.rpm

./RPMS/x86_64/ocaml-qmp-0.9.1-1.x86_64.rpm:

./RPMS/x86_64/ocaml-ounit-devel-1.1.2-3.el6.x86_64.rpm

./RPMS/x86_64/ocaml-qmp-devel-0.9.1-1.x86_64.rpm:

./RPMS/x86_64/ocaml-obuild-0.0.2-1.x86_64.rpm

./RPMS/x86_64/ocaml-qmp-devel-0.9.1-1.x86_64.rpm:

./RPMS/x86_64/ocaml-yojson-devel-1.1.6-1.x86_64.rpm

./RPMS/x86_64/ocaml-qmp-devel-0.9.1-1.x86_64.rpm:

./RPMS/x86_64/cmdliner-devel-0.9.3-1.x86_64.rpm

./RPMS/x86_64/ocaml-qmp-devel-0.9.1-1.x86_64.rpm:

./RPMS/x86_64/ocaml-ounit-devel-1.1.2-3.el6.x86_64.rpm

ocaml-qmp: ./RPMS/x86_64/ocaml-qmp-0.9.1-1.x86_64.rpm

./RPMS/x86_64/ocaml-qmp-devel-0.9.1-1.x86_64.rpm

./RPMS/x86_64/xenopsd-0.9.27-1.x86_64.rpm:

./RPMS/x86_64/ocaml-qmp-devel-0.9.1-1.x86_64.rpm

./RPMS/x86_64/xenopsd-libvirt-0.9.27-1.x86_64.rpm:

./RPMS/x86_64/ocaml-qmp-devel-0.9.1-1.x86_64.rpm

./RPMS/x86_64/xenopsd-xc-0.9.27-1.x86_64.rpm:

./RPMS/x86_64/ocaml-qmp-devel-0.9.1-1.x86_64.rpm

./RPMS/x86_64/xenopsd-simulator-0.9.27-1.x86_64.rpm:

./RPMS/x86_64/ocaml-qmp-devel-0.9.1-1.x86_64.rpm

./RPMS/x86_64/xenopsd-xenlight-0.9.27-1.x86_64.rpm:

./RPMS/x86_64/ocaml-qmp-devel-0.9.1-1.x86_64.rpm

makemake.py

Debian (experimental!)

Why?

foo.spec

foo-1.patch

makedeb.py foo.tgz foo.dsc

(and some tarballs)

foo.rpm foo.rpm

cowbuilder foo.deb foo.dsc

How can I get involved?

xs-devel@lists.xenserver.org

What’s next?