Xen 4.3 RC1 installation

I'd like to share how to install Xen 4.3 RC (Release Candidate) as part of a testing on Xen test day. I freshly installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my physical machine.

Xen source is able to download from git repository or tarball.

# download xen source from git repository
$ mkdir ~/xen-4.3
$ cd ~/xen-4.3
$ git clone -b 4.3.0-rc1 git://xenbits.xen.org/xen.git
Cloning into 'xen'...
remote: Counting objects: 271307, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (59143/59143), done.
remote: Total 271307 (delta 213525), reused 263420 (delta 207531)
Receiving objects: 100% (271307/271307), 53.31 MiB | 748 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (213525/213525), done.
Note: checking out '4de97462d34f7b74c748ab67600fe2386131b778'.

If you not familiar with git, you can download tarball source

$ wget http://bits.xensource.com/oss-xen/release/4.3.0-rc1/xen-4.3.0-rc1.tar.gz
--2013-05-08 17:55:22--  http://bits.xensource.com/oss-xen/release/4.3.0-rc1/xen-4.3.0-rc1.tar.gz
Resolving bits.xensource.com (bits.xensource.com)... 63.80.4.58, 63.80.4.218
Connecting to bits.xensource.com (bits.xensource.com)|63.80.4.58|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 16375588 (16M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `xen-4.3.0-rc1.tar.gz'

34% [=================>                                   ] 5,670,832    468K/s  eta 25s

Installing build tools and related modules.

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential

$ sudo apt-get install bcc bin86 gawk bridge-utils iproute libcurl3 libcurl4-openssl-dev bzip2 module-init-tools transfig tgif 
$ sudo apt-get install texinfo texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended texlive-fonts-extra texlive-fonts-recommended pciutils-dev mercurial
$ sudo apt-get install make gcc libc6-dev zlib1g-dev python python-dev python-twisted libncurses5-dev patch libvncserver-dev libsdl-dev libjpeg-dev
$ sudo apt-get install iasl libbz2-dev e2fslibs-dev git-core uuid-dev ocaml ocaml-findlib libx11-dev bison flex xz-utils libyajl-dev gettext markdown
$ sudo apt-get install libpixman-1-0 libpixman-1-dev 
$ sudo apt-get install libc6-dev*

Confuging the environment for installing.

$ sudo ./configure
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Will build the following subsystems:
  xen
  kernels
  tools
  stubdom
  docs
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating ./config/Toplevel.mk
=== configuring in tools (/downloads/xen-4.3.0-rc1/tools)
configure: running /bin/bash ./configure --disable-option-checking '--prefix=/usr/local'  --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=.
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
...
checking for fig2dev... /usr/bin/fig2dev
checking for pod2man... /usr/bin/pod2man
checking for pod2html... /usr/bin/pod2html
checking for pod2text... /usr/bin/pod2text
checking for markdown... /usr/bin/markdown
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating ../config/Docs.mk

To build all subsystems, use "dist" and then run "make install" to install xen.

################
# Build Xen
################
$ sudo make dist
make -C xen install
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/xen'
make -f Rules.mk _install
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/xen'
make -C tools
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/xen/tools'
[ -d figlet ] && make -C figlet
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/xen/tools/figlet'
gcc -o figlet figlet.c
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/xen/tools/figlet'
make symbols
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/xen/tools'
gcc -Wall -Werror -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdeclaration-after-statement -o symbols symbols.c
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/xen/tools'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/xen/tools'
make -f /home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/xen/Rules.mk include/xen/compile.h
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/xen'
make -C tools
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/xen/tools'
[ -d figlet ] && make -C figlet
make[5]: Entering directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/xen/tools/figlet'
make[5]: `figlet' is up to date.
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/xen/tools/figlet'
make symbols
make[5]: Entering directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/xen/tools'
make[5]: `symbols' is up to date.
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/xen/tools'
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/xen/tools'
 __  __            _  _    _____                    _        _     _
 \ \/ /___ _ __   | || |  |___ /    _   _ _ __  ___| |_ __ _| |__ | | ___
  \  // _ \ '_ \  | || |_   |_ \ __| | | | '_ \/ __| __/ _` | '_ \| |/ _ \
  /  \  __/ | | | |__   _| ___) |__| |_| | | | \__ \ || (_| | |_) | |  __/
 /_/\_\___|_| |_|    |_|(_)____/    \__,_|_| |_|___/\__\__,_|_.__/|_|\___|
...
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/docs'
install -d -m0755 -p /home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/dist/
install -m0644 -p ./COPYING /home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/dist
install -m0644 -p ./README /home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/dist
install -m0755 -p ./install.sh /home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/dist

################
# Install Xen
################
$ sudo make install
make -C xen install
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/xen'
make -f Rules.mk _install
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/xen'
make -C tools
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/xen/tools'
[ -d figlet ] && make -C figlet
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/xen/tools/figlet'
make[4]: `figlet' is up to date.
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/xen/tools/figlet'
make symbols
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/xen/tools'
make[4]: `symbols' is up to date.
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/xen/tools'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/xen/tools'
make -f /home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/xen/Rules.mk include/xen/compile.h
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/xen'
 __  __            _  _    _____                    _        _     _
 \ \/ /___ _ __   | || |  |___ /    _   _ _ __  ___| |_ __ _| |__ | | ___
  \  // _ \ '_ \  | || |_   |_ \ __| | | | '_ \/ __| __/ _` | '_ \| |/ _ \
  /  \  __/ | | | |__   _| ___) |__| |_| | | | \__ \ || (_| | |_) | |  __/
 /_/\_\___|_| |_|    |_|(_)____/    \__,_|_| |_|___/\__\__,_|_.__/|_|\___|
...
set -x; make -C figs
+ make -C figs
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/docs/figs'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/docs/figs'
rm -rf //usr/local/share/doc/xen
install -d -m0755 -p //usr/local/share/doc/xen
install -d -m0755 -p //usr/local/share/man
cp -R man1 //usr/local/share/man
cp -R man5 //usr/local/share/man
[ ! -d html ] || cp -R html //usr/local/share/doc/xen
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/yeonki/xen-4.3/xen/docs'

Xen is successfully installed. The next is to check whether xen boot files has created in /boot/ directory.

ls -al /boot/xen*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       19 Jun  5 15:50 /boot/xen-4.3.gz -> xen-4.3-unstable.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   821559 Jun  5 15:50 /boot/xen-4.3-unstable.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       19 Jun  5 15:50 /boot/xen-4.gz -> xen-4.3-unstable.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       19 Jun  5 15:50 /boot/xen.gz -> xen-4.3-unstable.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14012010 Jun  5 15:50 /boot/xen-syms-4.3-unstable

# Execute update-grub
$ sudo update-grub
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-23-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-23-generic
dpkg: warning: version 'syms-4.3-unstable' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit
dpkg: warning: version '/boot/xen.gz' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit
dpkg: warning: version 'syms-4.3-unstable' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-23-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-23-generic
dpkg: warning: version 'syms-4.3-unstable' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-23-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-23-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-23-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-23-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-23-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-23-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-23-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-23-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /memtest86+.bin
done

# When run "update-grub", an error was occurred. 
# To fix this, remove xen-syms-4.3-unstable and xen.gz
$ sudo rm /boot/xen-syms-4.3-unstable
$ sudo rm /boot/xen.gz

# Re-run update-grub
$ sudo update-grub
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-23-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-23-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-23-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-23-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-23-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-23-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-23-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-23-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /memtest86+.bin
done

#################################
# Register xen moduels as service
#################################
$ sudo update-rc.d xencommons defaults 19 18
update-rc.d: warning: xencommons start runlevel arguments (2 3 4 5) do not match LSB Default-Start values (2 3 5)
Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/xencommons ...
   /etc/rc0.d/K18xencommons -> ../init.d/xencommons
   /etc/rc1.d/K18xencommons -> ../init.d/xencommons
   /etc/rc6.d/K18xencommons -> ../init.d/xencommons
   /etc/rc2.d/S19xencommons -> ../init.d/xencommons
   /etc/rc3.d/S19xencommons -> ../init.d/xencommons
   /etc/rc4.d/S19xencommons -> ../init.d/xencommons
   /etc/rc5.d/S19xencommons -> ../init.d/xencommons

$ sudo update-rc.d xendomains defaults 21 20
update-rc.d: warning: xendomains start runlevel arguments (2 3 4 5) do not match LSB Default-Start values (2 3 5)
Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/xendomains ...
   /etc/rc0.d/K20xendomains -> ../init.d/xendomains
   /etc/rc1.d/K20xendomains -> ../init.d/xendomains
   /etc/rc6.d/K20xendomains -> ../init.d/xendomains
   /etc/rc2.d/S21xendomains -> ../init.d/xendomains
   /etc/rc3.d/S21xendomains -> ../init.d/xendomains
   /etc/rc4.d/S21xendomains -> ../init.d/xendomains
   /etc/rc5.d/S21xendomains -> ../init.d/xendomains

$ sudo update-rc.d xen-watchdog defaults 22 23
update-rc.d: warning: xen-watchdog start runlevel arguments (2 3 4 5) do not match LSB Default-Start values (2 3 5)
Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/xen-watchdog ...
   /etc/rc0.d/K23xen-watchdog -> ../init.d/xen-watchdog
   /etc/rc1.d/K23xen-watchdog -> ../init.d/xen-watchdog
   /etc/rc6.d/K23xen-watchdog -> ../init.d/xen-watchdog
   /etc/rc2.d/S22xen-watchdog -> ../init.d/xen-watchdog
   /etc/rc3.d/S22xen-watchdog -> ../init.d/xen-watchdog
   /etc/rc4.d/S22xen-watchdog -> ../init.d/xen-watchdog
   /etc/rc5.d/S22xen-watchdog -> ../init.d/xen-watchdog

#################################
# rebooting boot with xen
#################################
$ cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg | grep Xen
submenu "Xen 4" {
menuentry 'Ubuntu GNU/Linux, with Xen 4 and Linux 3.2.0-23-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os --class xen {
        echo    'Loading Xen 4 ...'
menuentry 'Ubuntu GNU/Linux, with Xen 4 and Linux 3.2.0-23-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os --class xen {
        echo    'Loading Xen 4 ...'
submenu "Xen 4.3" {
menuentry 'Ubuntu GNU/Linux, with Xen 4.3 and Linux 3.2.0-23-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os --class xen {
        echo    'Loading Xen 4.3 ...'
menuentry 'Ubuntu GNU/Linux, with Xen 4.3 and Linux 3.2.0-23-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os --class xen {
        echo    'Loading Xen 4.3 ...'
submenu "Xen 4.3-unstable" {
menuentry 'Ubuntu GNU/Linux, with Xen 4.3-unstable and Linux 3.2.0-23-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os --class xen {
        echo    'Loading Xen 4.3-unstable ...'
menuentry 'Ubuntu GNU/Linux, with Xen 4.3-unstable and Linux 3.2.0-23-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os --class xen {
        echo    'Loading Xen 4.3-unstable ...'


$ sudo vi /etc/default/grub
...
GRUB_DEFAULT='Ubuntu GNU/Linux, with Xen 4.3 and Linux 3.2.0-23-generic'
..

$ sudo update-grub
$ sudo boot

References:
1. http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Archived/Xen_4.3_RC1_test_instructions
2. http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Compiling_Xen_From_Source
3. http://locatrix.com/build-and-install-xen-4-2-1-from-source-on-ubuntu-12-10/
4. http://blog.heidt.biz/blog/2012/09/17/setting-up-ubuntu-12-dot-04-precise-pangolin-as-xen-dom0/
5. http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-users/2013-05/msg00136.html