Re: No VMX-guests on Intel Xeon/VT

[Thorolf Godawa <Thorolf@Godawa.de>]

Hi all,

OK, I've installed possibly all needed packages on SL10.1b2 but the 
VNC-stuff still is not working :-(

So right now I'm downloading the latest SLES 10-beta-code from the 
Novell-side and hopefully it is working with that - this is plan A!

Plan B is compiling XEN by myself, so acording to the docs I've 
installed the following (or it was already installed):
python-devel, zlib-devel, LibVNCServer, SDL-devel, bridge-utils, 
iproute2, udev, dev86-0.16.0-187.i586.rpm

Then I downloaded and untared xen-3.0.1-src.tgz, to build it I'm doing:

# make KERNELS=linux-2.6-xen world > make01.log

The first part seems to run without problems, at least I don't find 
errors or warnings in the log:

------------------------------------------------------
   ...
   Install prefix    usr
   BIOS directory    /usr/share/xen/qemu
   binary directory  /usr/bin
   Manual directory  /usr/share/man
   Source path       /data/xen/2install/xen301/xen-3.0.1/tools/ioemu
   C compiler        gcc
   make              make
   host CPU          amd64
   host big endian   no
   target list       target-i386-dm
   gprof enabled     no
   static build      no
   VNC support       yes
   SDL support       yes
   SDL static link   yes
   mingw32 support   no
   Adlib support     no
   FMOD support      no
   ...
   make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/data/xen/2install/xen301/xen-3.0.1/xen/arch/x86'
   make[2]: Leaving directory `/data/xen/2install/xen301/xen-3.0.1/xen'
   make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/xen/2install/xen301/xen-3.0.1'
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It doesn't matter that the "host CPU" is an "amd64" if in truth its a 
Xeon with EM64T?

And what means "target list       target-i386-dm", does it mean that the 
compiled binaries are only for i386? I need them for x86-64, if it's not 
correct where do I change it?

Unfortunately only the first part of the compilation runs, then I get:

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   readlink: missing operand
   Try `readlink --help' for more information.
    __  __            _____  ___   _
    \ \/ /___ _ __   |___ / / _ \ / |
     \  // _ \ '_ \    |_ \| | | || |
     /  \  __/ | | |  ___) | |_| || |
    /_/\_\___|_| |_| |____(_)___(_)_|

   cc1: warnings being treated as errors
   In file included from 
/data/xen/2install/xen301/xen-3.0.1/xen/include/asm/mpspec.h:5,
                    from 
/data/xen/2install/xen301/xen-3.0.1/xen/include/asm/smp.h:18,
                    from 
/data/xen/2install/xen301/xen-3.0.1/xen/include/xen/smp.h:13,
                    from 
/data/xen/2install/xen301/xen-3.0.1/xen/include/xen/sched.h:8,
                    from x86_64/asm-offsets.c:9:
   /data/xen/2install/xen301/xen-3.0.1/xen/include/asm/mpspec_def.h:78: 
warning: ?packed? attribute ignored for field of type ?unsigned char[5u]?
   make[3]: *** [asm-offsets.s] Error 1
   make[2]: *** [/data/xen/2install/xen301/xen-3.0.1/xen/xen] Error 2
   make[1]: *** [install-xen] Error 2
   make: *** [world] Error 2
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I'm not a c-programmer, so possibly I'm not goinig to fix this in the 
sources or is there s.th. else wrong in the way I'm going to compile the 
package for me?

Again thanks a lot for all the help I got in these news-groups!
-- 

Chau y hasta luego,

Thorolf