Problems in compiling Xen on CentOS

Question

Hi All, I am getting the below error while compiling Xen on CentOS

make -C firmware install

make[4]: Entering directory `/home/satyajeet/Important_Softwares/xen-4.0.1/tools/firmware'

Require dev86 rpm or bin86 & bcc debs version >= 0.16.14 to build firmware!

(visit http://www.debath.co.uk/dev86/ for more information)

make[4]: * [all] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory /home/satyajeet/Important_Softwares/xen-4.0.1/tools/firmware' make[3]: *** [subdir-install-firmware] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory/home/satyajeet/Important_Softwares/xen-4.0.1/tools' make[2]: * [subdirs-install] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory /home/satyajeet/Important_Softwares/xen-4.0.1/tools' make[1]: *** [install-tools] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory/home/satyajeet/Important_Softwares/xen-4.0.1' make: * [world] Error 2

Can anyone please help me get rid of this error.... Thanks in advance

Answer 1

This is just a typical build dependency error, it would be good if in time you became familiar with them and learned to solve them on your own. For this one you need to install the dev86 package. If you're on fedora then yum install dev86. On Debian/Ubuntu it would be something like apt-get install bin86 bcc.