[xen-tools-discuss] Can't find version 4.7 of xen utils, bailing out!

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:52:45PM +0100, Marwa Hamza wrote:
> i build xen from the source
> git clone git://xenbits.xen.org/xen.git
> xen run in omap 5 board with ubuntu file system

Nice! Xen on ARM!

> i'm looking for download some guests

You mean readily usable disk images?

> but while downloading xen-tools i get "* Not running within Xen or no
> compatible utils"

Already while downloading? So you're not net using it, rigjt?

Anyway, that's no error message of xen-tools but of xl from xen-utils.

The answer you got on the xen-devel mailing list is probably the right
one: http://osdir.com/ml/general/2016-04/msg00679.html

The details you posted at
http://www.xenproject.org/help/questions-and-answers/xen-utils-not-running-within-xen-or-no-compatible-utils/latest.html
are actually more helpful as they show where your issue came from:

| downloading xen-tools.deb from my host then with dpkg command i
| install it but while doing the same steps to xen-utils-common i get
| this error
| 
| Preparing to unpack xen-utils-common_4.5.0-1ubuntu4.4_all.deb ...
| * Not running within Xen or no compatible utils

So there's the same answer once again: You can't mix xen-utils version
4.5 with Xen 4.7.

> then when i wrote
>  sudo xl list
> 
> i got
> 
> ERROR: Can't find version 4.7 of xen utils, bailing out!
> 
>   but i didn't find this version of xen-utils .. how can fix this

Since you compiled Xen from git, you should already have them. They
live in the subdirectory "tools" (but are unrelated to the xen-tools
project you were writing to), e.g. the xl command is build from the
sources in tools/libxl (see also
http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=tree;f=tools/libxl)

Not sure where they should be installed on the system though so that
other tools find them automatically.

		Kind regards, Axel
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