slackware dom0 | from source | multilib
there’s now a package for that.
15.0 > System > xen-nox (4.16.1) https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/xen-nox/
and here’s how the tarballs where prepared.
Tarballs for XEN and QEMU-XEN https://pub.nethence.com/tarballs/xen-nox
see the new guide for building all this on current.
this guide was working well a few years ago with slackware 14.2. but with recent XEN versions, python 3 is required. also, we now have GCC 11 in slackware current. also, python-ninja is now required by xen or qemu-xen.
Compilation was done on some enterprise-class IBM servers dating 2007 with 4x4 Xeon processors and 96 GB to 128 GB of RAM. For 16 cores in total and with 1 thread per core (lscpu), I obtained the fastest results with -j16 for xen versus -j24 for tools and stubdom. Anyway, tune the number of make jobs according to your hardware.
assuming the essential tools for building software installed already
in case you’re running a minimal system
slackpkg install \
bison \
dev86 \
cmake-3 \
flex \
gc \
git \
glibc-2 \
libarchive \
lzo \
openssl \
patch-2 \
pixman \
pciutils \
python3 \
texinfo \
zlib-1
pexpect \
ptyprocess \
python3-ninja \
python3-skbuild \
syslinux \
ucl \
upx \
wheel \
and additional packages from SBo
sbopkg -i acpica
sbopkg -i yajl
ver=4.x.x
fetch the latest release tarball
wget https://downloads.xenproject.org/release/xen/$ver/xen-$ver.tar.gz wget https://downloads.xenproject.org/release/xen/$ver/xen-$ver.tar.gz.sig gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key 57E82BD9 gpg xen-$ver.tar.gz.sig
with fingerpring
Primary key fingerprint: 23E3 222C 145F 4475 FA80 60A7 83FE 14C9 57E8 2BD9
extract and build the release with the good old cxenstored instead of oxenstored
tar xzf xen-$ver.tar.gz cd xen-$ver/ ./configure \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --localstatedir=/var \ --with-xenstored=xenstored \ --disable-sdl \ --disable-xsmpolicy \ --disable-systemd \ --disable-seabios \ --disable-stubdom \ --disable-ioemu-stubdom \ --disable-pv-grub \ --disable-xenstore-stubdom \ --disable-ocamltools \ --disable-qemu-traditional \ --disable-ovmf \ --with-extra-qemuu-configure-args="--sysconfdir=/etc --audio-drv-list= --disable-slirp --disable-blobs --without-default-features"
and since we are using a minimal system
--disable-docs \
more options
# --disable-rombios already disabled by --disable-qemu-traditional # --disable-debug # --disable-pvshim
finally proceed with the build!
echo $MAKEFLAGS
# make clean-xen >/dev/null && echo CLEAN
time make xen > ../xen.log && echo BUILT
# 0m34.370s on bravo
make install-xen > ../install-xen-${HOSTNAME%%.*}.log && echo DEPLOYED
ln -s boot/xen.gz /xen.gz
cd ../
slackpkg install gettext-tools pkg-config glib2 pcre google-go-lang
Fetch ipxe & seabios GIT repos through https://
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib64/bcc which bcc-cpp
installing the latest ACPICA for xen tools to build
wget https://acpica.org/sites/acpica/files/acpica-unix2-20210730.tar.gz tar xzf acpica-unix2-20210730.tar.gz cd acpica-unix2-20210730/ echo $MAKEFLAGS make > ../acpica.log && echo BUILT make install > ../make.acpica.install.log && echo INSTALLED cd ../
(configure was done above) #make distclean #time make world > ../world.$HOSTNAME.log && echo WORLD #make clean-tools echo $MAKEFLAGS time make tools > ../tools.log && echo BUILT make install-tools > ../install-tools.log && echo DEPLOYED #make clean-stubdom #time make stubdom > stubdom.log && echo BUILT #time make install-stubdom cp -pi /etc/ld.so.conf /etc/ld.so.conf.dist cat >> /etc/ld.so.conf <<-EOF /usr/local/lib EOF cat /etc/ld.so.conf ldconfig
Compiling Xen https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Compiling_Xen
Compiling Xen From Source https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Compiling_Xen_From_Source
Xen Project Repositories https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Repositories