Making template tools to work on x86 64 - Revision history

Jmlowe at 18:32, 19 May 2008

2008-05-19T18:32:57Z

Kir: Install OpenVZ on a x86 64 system with i368 VPS's moved to Making template tools to work on x86 64: better title

2008-04-18T09:41:24Z

Install OpenVZ on a x86 64 system with i368 VPS's moved to Making template tools to work on x86 64: better title

Kir: better explanation

2008-04-18T09:40:56Z

better explanation

Jmlowe at 20:46, 17 April 2008

2008-04-17T20:46:00Z

Jmlowe: New page: There isn't much of a reason to run a 64bit container; however, there a memory management benefits to be had from running a 64bit hardware node. The problem is that the OpenVZ tools are a...

2008-04-17T20:44:04Z

New page: There isn't much of a reason to run a 64bit container; however, there a memory management benefits to be had from running a 64bit hardware node. The problem is that the OpenVZ tools are a...

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There isn't much of a reason to run a 64bit container; however, there a memory management benefits to be had from running a 64bit hardware node. The problem is that the OpenVZ tools are all compiled for 32bits and rely on the hardware node having 32 bit python. The setx86_64 breaks distributions based on rpm 4.3.x which includes CentOS4/RHEL4. The steps I took to make this work with a RHEL5.1-x86_64 hardware node and the standard 32bit templates are as follows:

* Get and build Python 2.4.5 having exported CFLAGS="-m32" and LD_FLAGS="-m32" into /usr/local/python-2.4.5-32 by using --prefix=/usr/local/python-2.4.5-32 as an argument to configure
* Download ez_setup from http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall and run /usr/local/python-2.4.5-32/bin/python ez_setup.py (this will make some things easier)
* download and install cElementTree-1.2.6
* download and install libxml2-python-2.6.9, you will need to have libxml-devel.i386 and libxslt-devel.i386 already installed
* download and install urlgrabber-3.1.0
* /usr/local/python-2.4.5-32/bin/easy_install pysqlite, make sure you have sqlite-devel installed
* replace /usr/bin/python with /usr/local/python-2.4.5-32/bin/python in /usr/share/vzyum/yum-cli/yummain.py, /usr/share/vzyum/yum-cli/cli.py, /usr/share/vzyum/bin/yum

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-There isn't much of a reason to run a 64bit container; however, there a memory management benefits to be had from running a 64bit hardware node.  The problem is that the OpenVZ tools are all compiled for 32bits and rely on the hardware node having 32 bit python.  The setx86_64 breaks distributions based on rpm 4.3.x which includes CentOS4/RHEL4.  The steps I took to make this work with a RHEL5.1-x86_64 hardware node and the standard 32bit templates are as follows:
+This article describes an (unofficial) hack to make OpenVZ template tools work on an x86_64 box.
 *  Get and build Python 2.4.5 having exported CFLAGS="-m32" and LD_FLAGS="-m32" into /usr/local/python-2.4.5-32 by using --prefix=/usr/local/python-2.4.5-32 as an argument to configure
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 *  /usr/local/python-2.4.5-32/bin/easy_install pysqlite, make sure you have sqlite-devel installed
 *  replace /usr/bin/python with /usr/local/python-2.4.5-32/bin/python in /usr/share/vzyum/yum-cli/yummain.py, /usr/share/vzyum/yum-cli/cli.py, /usr/share/vzyum/bin/yum
 [[Category: Templates]]
 [[Category: HOWTO]]
 [[Category: Troubleshooting]]

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 *  Get and build Python 2.4.5 having exported CFLAGS="-m32" and LD_FLAGS="-m32" into /usr/local/python-2.4.5-32 by using --prefix=/usr/local/python-2.4.5-32 as an argument to configure
 *  Download ez_setup from http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall and run /usr/local/python-2.4.5-32/bin/python ez_setup.py (this will make some things easier)
-*  download and install cElementTree-1.2.6
+*  download and install ElementTree-1.2.6 (easy_install)
-*  download and install libxml2-python-2.6.9, you will need to have libxml-devel.i386 and libxslt-devel.i386 already installed
+*  download and install libxml2-python-2.6.9, you will need to have libxml-devel.i386 and libxslt-devel.i386 already installed (ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/python/)
-*  download and install urlgrabber-3.1.0
+*  download and install urlgrabber-3.1.0 (http://linux.duke.edu/projects/urlgrabber/download/)
 *  /usr/local/python-2.4.5-32/bin/easy_install pysqlite, make sure you have sqlite-devel installed
 *  replace /usr/bin/python with /usr/local/python-2.4.5-32/bin/python in /usr/share/vzyum/yum-cli/yummain.py, /usr/share/vzyum/yum-cli/cli.py, /usr/share/vzyum/bin/yum
 [[Category: Templates]]
 [[Category: HOWTO]]
 [[Category: Troubleshooting]]

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