[Users] OpenVZ Compilation Help

[Phil Daws]

Hi Vasily,

That appears to be the missing magic to get the new kernel module compiled in :)

Thank you very much for your help and have a great weekend.

Phil

----- On 3 Jul, 2015, at 12:00, Vasily Averin vvs at virtuozzo.com wrote:

> 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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