XCP Building Instructions

Xen Cloud Platform Building Instructions

Building the xapi toolstack

The recommended way to build the xapi toolstack is in an environment similar to that in which it will be installed - therefore you'll need a CentOS 5.5 32-bit OS installed - we tend to use VMs for this.

For convenience, there are YUM repositories hosted on downloads.xen.org that contain the build dependencies of xapi. To enable these, create a a file /etc/yum.repos.d/xcp.repo with the following contents:

[xcp]
name = xcp
baseurl = http://downloads.xen.org/XCP/xcp-1.0-repo
gpgcheck = 0

If you're building XCP unstable, replace '1.0' in the URL with 'unstable'.

Then execute the following commands:

rpm -e libaio
yum install gcc autoconf automake tetex ghostscript java-1.6.0-openjdk java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel ant pam-devel python-devel zlib-devel openssl-devel dev86 rpm-build texinfo flex bison sharutils elfutils-devel ncurses-devel e4fsprogs-devel ocaml ocaml-findlib ocaml-getopt ocaml-type-conv ocaml-xmlm omake ocaml-xmlm-devel xen-devel xapi-libs-devel xapi-libs-utils

You'll also need mercurial or git depending upon whether you're building the unstable version of XCP or 1.0. These are both available in the EPEL repository (http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/repoview/)

Check out the xapi source:

hg clone http://xenbits.xen.org/XCP/xen-api.hg

or

git clone git@github.com:xen-org/xen-api.git

and then build it:

cd xen-api.hg
make

or

cd xen-api
make

It is also possible to build xapi in a non-CentOS 5.5 32-bit environment with the help of mock. Instructions for this are coming.