Thank you so much for the reply... :)
I am trying to build this on OpenSUSE-11.4.
And you said that I can get distro provided packages. I just want to ask
whether installing those packages will work?
Where can I get those packages? Can you please provide the link. I am
scared of playing with the kernel as I am doing these things on a server
that is why I am asking these things.
//
Varun
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> wrote:
> On dom, 2013-06-16 at 22:09 +0530, varun bhatnagar wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> Hi,
>
> > I am trying to install xen and provide libvrit support to it but while
> > installing at some point of time it tries to connect to GIT repository
> > and creates a clone but I am behind firewall and it is getting timed
> > out.... :(
> >
> Ok, so you're trying building Xen from the sources, right? On what
> distribution? Also, if I can ask, is there a reason why you need to
> build it instead of using the distro provided packages? (only asking
> because that's usually a lot easier :-) ).
>
> > I am pasting a screenshot below. Can anyone of you please help me out
> > with this one.
> >
> Can't see it. Actually, in general, I think cutting-&-pasting the
> textual output is going to be much better than a screenshot! :-P
>
> Anyway, yes, for now, Xen needs to fetch some external
> sources/repositories during the building process. We're working of
> improving this (i.e., getting rid of it), for instance, by making it
> possible to use what the user already have in his system (e.g., provided
> by the proper distro packages), but we're not there yet.
>
> What you can do, for now, it get the external code yourself, from
> somewhere outside the firewall that blocks your `git clone' and then
> copy them next to the Xen sources, in the local filesystem, and point
> the build process to them.
>
> For achieving the latter, you can create a file called ".config"
in Xen
> source's root directory, where you define specific variables, pointing
o
> the sources. So, for example for upstream and traditional QEMU, you want
> to clone the repository from some place where that is possible, copy
> them in /foo/bar/qemu-xen-traditional and /foo/bar/qemu-xen-upstream and
> write the following in the .config file:
>
> CONFIG_QEMU=/foo/bar/qemu-xen-traditiona
> QEMU_UPSTREAM_URL=/foo/bar/qemu-xen-upstream
>
> That would at least help, I think. :-)
>
> Allow me to add that, since this is still a ver Xen specific issue, you
> may be more lucky in finding help on some other mailing lists (and also
> avoid disturbing people in this very one :-D).
>
> For general questions about using Xen, see here:
> http://lists.xenproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-users
>
> If, by any chance, you're on Fedora, see here:
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen
>
> Regards,
> Dario
>
> --
> <<This happens because I choose it to happen!>> (Raistlin
Majere)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://about.me/dario.faggioli
> Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)
>
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