Re: [Openxenmanager-users] [RFC]Building openxenmanager

[Appiah <mu...@gm...>]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:59 PM, harryxiyou <har...@gm...> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Appiah <mu...@gm...> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:10 PM, harryxiyou <har...@gm...> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Appiah <mu...@gm...> wrote:
>>> Hi Appiah
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:06 AM, harryxiyou <har...@gm...> wrote:
>>>>> Hi list and mike,
>>>>>
>>>>> I run  openxenmanager as this link
>>>>> (http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/openxenmanager/wiki/GettingStarted#Centos)
>>>>> says.
>>>>> My pc environment is Centos 5.4.
>>>>>
>>>>> According to these steps, i can not get some packages like
>>>>> pixbuf.tar.gz, python.2.5.tar.gz,
>>>>> and centos_libs.tar.bz2. And then i find gdk-pixbuf.tar.gz and
>>>>> Python-2.5.tgz via Google.
>>>>> But i can not find centos_libs.tar.bz2 yet by Google. I am not sure if
>>>>> gdk-pixbuf.tar.gz is
>>>>> the same as pixbuf.tar.gz.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could anyone give me some suggestions?  Thanks in advance.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Harry Wei
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi, like it says on the top of the centos instructions.
>>>> "This solution requires pre-compiled libraries and we have no idea on
>>>> where does files are today... links are broken ".
>>>>
>>>> The person who wrote this Running on Centos (and Debian Lenny) guide
>>>> didnt document what was in those files so no one knows if gdk-pixbuf
>>>> is the same as pixbuf.tar.gz and where all those files are....
>>>> I didn't like the whole download the libraries like this for a reason.
>>>> Centos and Debian at the time of the writing had very old libraries.
>>>>
>>>> It works fine on Debian Squeeze and i bet it could work with the
>>>> libraries providied in Centos 6.2 if you use that.
>>>> If you are trying to get this to run a Centos as in the Xenserver
>>>> itself you will have to do what the person who wrote the Centos guide
>>>> did, which is .... well I dont know.
>>>>
>>> Hmm.., well, you always use openxenmanager under debian, right?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks
>>> Harry Wei
>>
>> No I mostly use Gentoo, I occasionally use Debian/Ubuntu desktops.
>> I can give CentOS 6 (6.2,3?) a try and come back with results.
>
> Ok, i wait for your feedback ;-).
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks
> Harry Wei

Hi again.

Installed CentOS 6.2 from CentOS-6.2.-i386-LiveCD.iso , after install
i just installed subversion and gtk-vnc-python.
Checked out latest openxenmanager.

I tested connecting to my Xenserver and that worked without problem.

// Appiah