On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 07:19 +0100, Justin Pettit wrote:
> My guess is that you haven't installed the kernel source RPMs into the
> DDK.  They're typically on one of the source ISOs with a name like
> kernel-2.6.*.src.rpm.  I don't know why they're not included by
> default in the DDK, either.  :-)

The DDK comes preinstalled with the necessary kernel-{xen,kdump}-devel
RPMs, which should be sufficient to build any out of tree modules, the
full source should not be required.

If those devel packages are missing then there is a bug in the DDK.

Ian.

> 
> --Justin
> 
> 
> On Aug 19, 2010, at 11:13 PM, Michael Chung wrote:
> 
> > Dear All,
> > 
> > I downloaded the Open vSwitch and uploaded to the xenserver 5.6 ddk 
> > (XenServer SDK 5.6.0-31188p).
> > 
> > I followed the steps in 
> > http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=blob_plain;f=INSTALL.XenServer;hb=HEAD
> > 
> > But I got the following error message,
> > 
> > checking whether gcc accepts -Wno-unused... yes
> > checking for Linux 2.6 build directory... no
> > configure: error: source dir 
> > /lib/modules/2.6.27.42-0.1.1.xs5.6.0.44.111158xen/build doesn't exist
> > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.53473 (%build)
> > 
> > RPM build errors:
> >     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.53473 (%build)
> > 
> > I checked the path /lib/modules/2.6.27.42-0.1.1.xs5.6.0.44.111158xen/, 
> > there are not build exist.
> > 
> > Does in mean this is not supported to build open vswitch in xenserver 5.6.
> > 
> > Thank you very much!
> > 
> > Michael
> > _______________________________________________
> > discuss mailing list
> > discuss@openvswitch.org
> > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_openvswitch.org
> 
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