/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES inside the VM. Then execute the following:
VERSION=<Open vSwitch version>
- XENKERNEL=<Xen kernel version>
+ KERNEL_NAME=<Xen Kernel name>
+ KERNEL_VERSION=<Xen Kernel version>
+ KERNEL_FLAVOR=<Xen Kernel flavor(suffix) >
cd /tmp
tar xfz /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/openvswitch-$VERSION.tar.gz
rpmbuild \
-D "openvswitch_version $VERSION" \
- -D "xen_version $XENKERNEL" \
+ -D "kernel_name $KERNEL_NAME" \
+ -D "kernel_version $KERNEL_VERSION" \
+ -D "kernel_flavor $KERNEL_FLAVOR" \
-bb openvswitch-$VERSION/xenserver/openvswitch-xen.spec
where:
<openvswitch version> is the version number that appears in the
name of the Open vSwitch tarball, e.g. 0.90.0.
- <Xen kernel version> is the version number of the Xen kernel,
- e.g. 2.6.32.12-0.7.1.xs5.6.100.307.170586xen. This version number
- appears as the name of a directory in /lib/modules inside the VM.
- It always ends in "xen".
+ <Xen Kernel name> is the name of the Xen Kernel,
+ e.g. kernel-xen or kernel-NAME-xen. By convention, the name
+ starts with "kernel-" and ends with "-xen".
+ This can be obtained by executing
+ 'rpm -q --queryformat "%{Name}" kernel.*xen'
+ with the "kernel-" stripped out using sed 's/kernel-//'
+ e.g. kernel-NAME-xen => NAME-xen
+
+ <Xen Kernel version> is the output of:
+ rpm -q --queryformat "%{Version}-%{Release}" kernel.*xen-devel
+ e.g. 2.6.32.12-0.7.1.xs5.6.100.323.170596
+
+ <Xen Kernel flavor (suffix) > is either "xen" or "kdump".
+ The "xen" flavor is the main running kernel flavor and the "kdump" flavor is
+ the crashdump kernel flavor. Commonly, one would specify "xen" here.
Three RPMs will be output into /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386, whose names begin
-with "openvswitch", "openvswitch-modules-xen", and "openvswitch-debuginfo".
+with "openvswitch", "openvswitch-modules-xen" (if building for kernel_flavor=xen),
+and "openvswitch-debuginfo".
Installing Open vSwitch for XenServer
-------------------------------------
# without warranty of any kind.
# When building, the rpmbuild command line should define
-# openvswitch_version, xen_version, and build_number using -D arguments.
+# openvswitch_version, kernel_name, kernel_version, kernel_flavor,
+# and build_number using -D arguments.
# for example:
#
-# rpmbuild -D "openvswitch_version 0.8.9~1+build123" -D "xen_version 2.6.18-128.1.1.el5.xs5.1.0.483.1000xen" -D "build_number --with-build-number=123" -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/openvswitch-xen.spec
+# rpmbuild -D "openvswitch_version 1.1.0+build123"
+# -D "kernel_name NAME-xen"
+# -D "kernel_version 2.6.32.12-0.7.1.xs5.6.100.323.170596"
+# -D "kernel_flavor xen"
+# -D "build_number --with-build-number=123"
+# -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/openvswitch-xen.spec
-%define version %{openvswitch_version}-%{xen_version}
+%define xen_version %{kernel_version}%{kernel_flavor}
# bump this when breaking compatibility with userspace
%define module_abi_version 0
# kernel version string w/o kernel type
%define kernel_version %(echo '%{xen_version}' | sed -r 's/[a-z]+$//')
# build-supplemental-pack.sh requires this naming for kernel module packages
-%define module_package modules%{binsuffix}-%{kernel_version}
+%define module_package modules-%{kernel_flavor}-%{kernel_version}
Name: openvswitch
Summary: Open vSwitch daemon/database/utilities
Summary: Open vSwitch kernel module
Group: System Environment/Kernel
License: GPLv2
-Provides: %{name}-modules = %{kernel_version}, openvswitch_mod.ko.%{module_abi_version}
-Requires: kernel%{binsuffix} = %{kernel_version}
+Provides: %{name}-modules-%{kernel_flavor} = %{kernel_version}, openvswitch_mod.ko.%{module_abi_version}
+Requires: kernel-%{kernel_name} = %{kernel_version}
%description %{module_package}
Open vSwitch Linux kernel module compiled against kernel version