[Users] OpenVZ Compilation Help

[Vasily Averin]

Dear Phil,
in our rhel6-based test kernels we adjust config options in config-vz file.
I don't know details of rhel6 build machinery, but this works well for build openVZ kernels.

Thank you,
	Vasily Averin 

On 03.07.2015 13:30, Phil Daws wrote:
> Hi Vasily,
> 
> Yes, will build the whole kernel as I have a dedicated CentOS6 build server for all my locally maintained packages.
> 
> Thanks, Phil
> 
> ----- On 3 Jul, 2015, at 10:25, Vasily Averin vvs at virtuozzo.com wrote:
> 
>> Dear Phil.
>>
>> Are you sure that you want to rebuild whole kernel?
>>
>> If you want to build some 3rd-party module only -- there is much simple way.
>> Just install according vzkenrel and vzkernel-devel packages on your node and
>> use out-of-tree compilation described in
>> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt
>>
>> thank you,
>> 	Vasily Averin
>>
>> On 03.07.2015 11:12, Phil Daws wrote:
>>> Hello all:
>>>
>>> Request a little help please in compiling up a new OpenVZ kernel (CentOS 6) with
>>> an additional module enabled.
>>>
>>> I have setup the rpmbuild environment, downloaded the source RPM
>>> https://openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel6/042stab108.5, and installed the
>>> kernel.  Then following https://openvz.org/Kernel_build I ran menuconfig and
>>> enabled the additional module.  The next step, according to the wiki, is to
>>> copy the .config to "$TOPDIR/SOURCES directory, but use the corresponding file
>>> name in the target directory" so if my arch is x86_64 do I copy it to
>>> SOURCES/config-x86_64-generic or the rhel derivative ? Then once that is done
>>> execute rpmbuild -ba --target=x86_64 vzkernel.spec to generate the kernel RPM ?
>>>
>>> Many thanks for your help, Phil
>>>
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