[xen-tools-discuss] I have an issue which I want to understand more about

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 05:03:41PM +0100, Adam O wrote:
> Im using a windows 2012 r2 standard server with Xen Tools installed on it
> at work.

While it might be that Xen works under Windows, too, it would be the
first time I hear about xen-tools to work on Windows.

> I also require an installation of Ruby on the same machine. The
> problem Im having is that as soon as I install ruby then I am unable to get
> my gems/libraries working correctly (gems are nothing more than packaged
> code for distributed resuse mainly - incase you are unfamiliar with them).

What I can't really follow is that if you install Ruby, it breaks your
Gems. But Gems are packaged Ruby modules, so how can they have worked
before you installed the Ruby interpreter?

> Having read throgh many discussions on the topic:
> 
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rubyinstaller/74wmtd0vkWU/l5zAjOiiKIAJ
> 
> I realise that a few people are encountering the same problem.

You very likely asked the wrong project:

The people there talk about "xs-tools", short for "XenServer Tools"
(probably those at
https://www.citrix.com/downloads/xenserver/tools.html), but you
reached the mailing list of the Open Source project "xen-tools"
(without "server" in its name; see
http://xen-tools.org/software/xen-tools/) which is a set of tools
written in Perl to provision Linux-based DomUs from Linux-based Dom0s.

> My question is why? What can I do to get around the issue?

No idea, sorry. Someone else on this list may coincidently help, but
it's not really ontopic here.

A nice side effect for our project, though: Looking for "xen tools
ruby" on the web brought up https://github.com/mbailey/ruby-xen which
provides an interface to our xen-tools. Didn't know that.

		Kind regards, Axel
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