Compiling Xen-4.4 From Source And Installing It On Ubuntu Server (Amd-64)

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• 　　First of all, you should install a clean Ubuntu Server (Amd-64) on your server. (Version 14.04 is strongly recommended for the best compatibility)
  
  
• 　　Get the souce code of Xen ready by "git clone". ((If some errors occur in this step, you may check the /ect/apt/source.list and update it by running "$ sudo apt-get update")
  
  
  
  1 $ git clone git://xenbits.xen.org/xen.git
  If you have not yet install "git", please run "sudo apt-get install git" on your terminal.
  
  
  1 $ cd xen
  Use "git branch" to show the versions of Xen:
  
  
  1 $ git branch -av  
  2   master                     3e2331d VT-d: suppress UR signaling for further desktop chipsets
  3   remotes/origin/HEAD        -> origin/master
  4   remotes/origin/master      3e2331d VT-d: suppress UR signaling for further desktop chipsets
  5   remotes/origin/stable-4.0  2692df2 compat/gnttab: Prevent infinite loop in compat code
  6   remotes/origin/stable-4.1  8995a94 page-alloc: scrub pages used by hypervisor upon freeing
  7   remotes/origin/stable-4.2  7bcdeb9 update Xen version to 4.2.5
  8   remotes/origin/stable-4.3  a153d8a update Xen version to 4.3.3
  9   remotes/origin/stable-4.4  be84c34 evtchn: check control block exists when using FIFO-based events
  10   remotes/origin/staging     3e2331d VT-d: suppress UR signaling for further desktop chipsets
  11   remotes/origin/staging-4.0 2692df2 compat/gnttab: Prevent infinite loop in compat code
  12   remotes/origin/staging-4.1 8995a94 page-alloc: scrub pages used by hypervisor upon freeing
  13   remotes/origin/staging-4.2 7bcdeb9 update Xen version to 4.2.5
  14   remotes/origin/staging-4.3 a153d8a update Xen version to 4.3.3
  15   remotes/origin/staging-4.4 be84c34 evtchn: check control block exists when using FIFO-based events
  　　Checkout to "stable-4.4" and create a new branch named "netopt" and then checkout to it:
  
  
  
  1 $ git checkout stable-4.4
  2 Switched to branch 'stable-4.4'
  3 $ git branch netopt
  4 $ git checkout netopt
  5 Switched to branch 'net opt'
  
• 　　Before compiling the source code of Xen, you must install the dependencies: (If some errors occur in this step, you may check the /ect/apt/source.list and update it by running "$ sudo apt-get update")
  
  
  
  1 $ sudo apt-get install build-essential
  2 $ sudo apt-get install bcc bin86 gawk bridge-utils iproute libcurl3 libcurl4-openssl-dev bzip2 module-init-tools transfig tgif
  3 $ sudo apt-get install texinfo texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended texlive-fonts-extra texlive-fonts-recommended pciutils-dev mercurial
  4 $ sudo apt-get install make gcc libc6-dev zlib1g-dev python python-dev python-twisted libncurses5-dev patch libvncserver-dev libsdl-dev libjpeg-dev
  5 $ sudo apt-get install iasl libbz2-dev e2fslibs-dev git-core uuid-dev ocaml ocaml-findlib libx11-dev bison flex xz-utils libyajl-dev
  6 $ sudo apt-get install gettext pandoc markdown python-dev
  7 $ sudo apt-get install libperl-dev libgtk2.0-dev libaio-dev gcc-multilib
  
• 　　Now you can compile the source code and install Xen: (Note that this step takes a long time. Be patient!)
  
  
  
  1 $ ./configure
  2 $ make world
  3 $ sudo make install
  
• 　　After step 4, Xen is already successfully installed on your machine. However, some post-installation operations is necessary:
  　　You can enable automatic start of Xen Project services on system startup:
  
  
  
  1 $ sudo update-rc.d xencommons defaults 19 18
  2 $ sudo update-rc.d xendomains defaults 21 20
  3 $ sudo update-rc.d xen-watchdog defaults 22 23
  　　By running "$ ls /etc/init.d/", you can find "xencommons", "xendomains" and "xen-watchdog". Note that Starting with Xen-4.3, "xend" is abandoned and replace by "xl".
  　　You also need to make some changes to "/boot/grub/grub.cfg" to correctly boot to xen.gz:
  
  
  
  1 $ sudo update-grub
  2 $ sudo vim /boot/grub/grub.cfg
  　　Modify the grub default option from "0" to "2": set default="2" (The option "2" normally locates the menuentry of "xen.gz")
  
  
• 　　Reboot the Ubuntu Server: (Now your machine will automatically boot from Xen's core)
  
  
  
  1 $ sudo reboot
  
• 　　You can run "sudo xl list" to test whether Xen is running correctly. If some errors occur, try to add a soft link to "libxenctrl.so.4.4":
  
  
  
  1 $ ln -s /usr/local/lib/libxenctrl.so.4.4 libxenctrl.so.4.4
  2 $ sudo ldconfig
  　　Then restart service xencommons:
  
  
  
  1 $ sudo service xencommons start/restart
  　　or:
  
  
  
  1 $ sudo /etc/init.d/xencommons start/restart
  Congradulations! All steps are completed and now you can create a virtual machine by "sudo xl create **".