Devel tools for driver compilation

[Angel Lafuente Echeazarra]

Hello everybody:

I tried to install EFW 2.3 in a Dell Optiplex machine for test purposes.

The machine has an Intel WG82567LM NIC that it's not supported in
current kernel. The module is e1000e (not e1000).

My problem is that there is no devel packages (make, gcc,
kernel-headers, etc ) available for 2.3.

Where can I get the, please?

Thanks in advance.

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[Nico Prenzel-2]

Hi,

I've  the same problem. I've tried to compile the virtio drivers to get an acceptable performance if you install the EFW onto a KVM host.

So, I want to second the request to publish the devel packages.

Thanks.

NicoP.

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04.11.2009 17:41

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Hello everybody:

I tried to install EFW 2.3 in a Dell Optiplex machine for test purposes.

The machine has an Intel WG82567LM NIC that it's not supported in
current kernel. The module is e1000e (not e1000).

My problem is that there is no devel packages (make, gcc,
kernel-headers, etc ) available for 2.3.

Where can I get the, please?

Thanks in advance.

--
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SOLID ROCK IT
Tu departamento de informática
http://www.solid-rock-it.com
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[Angel Lafuente Echeazarra]

Hi Nico:

I've noticed that analog issue it's on 2.2 version:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/efw/files/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/efw/files/Development/Endian%20Firewall%202.2/EFW-COMMUNITY-2.2-devel-srpms.tar.gz/download

I can download source RPMs but there no guide to build them.

So I've tried this - unsuccesfull for me - workaround. The kernel
version it's the same in 2.2 RC3 version and in the 2.2 stable version.

In the 2.2 RC3 you can get devel RPMs:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/efw/files/Development/Endian%20Firewall%202.2%20RC3/EFW-COMMUNITY-2.2-rc3-devel-rpms.tar.gz/download

You can install them in a 2.2 stable machine with "rpm -Uvh ". Now build
tools are available.

I've tried to compile the driver module but I've got errors. :-(

Maybe this procedure be suitable for you.

Inspired by this link:

http://howtoforge.org/install-vmware-tools-on-endian-firewall-community-2.2-rc3-on-esxi-3.5

Does anybody know any place in official documentation where build
process be descripted?

Is there any reason for this?

Bye.

Ángel

P.D: I found this

http://efwsupport.com/index.php?topic=1038.0

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Nico Prenzel escribió:

>
> Hi,
>
> I've  the same problem. I've tried to compile the virtio drivers to
> get an acceptable performance if you install the EFW onto a KVM host.
>
> So, I want to second the request to publish the devel packages.
>
> Thanks.
>
> NicoP.
>
>
>
> *Ángel Lafuente Echeazarra <angellafuente@...>*
>
> 04.11.2009 17:41
> Bitte antworten an
> efw-user@...
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> An
> efw-user@...
> Kopie
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> Thema
> [Efw-user] Devel tools for driver compilation
>
>
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>
>
>
>
>
>
> Hello everybody:
>
> I tried to install EFW 2.3 in a Dell Optiplex machine for test purposes.
>
> The machine has an Intel WG82567LM NIC that it's not supported in
> current kernel. The module is e1000e (not e1000).
>
> My problem is that there is no devel packages (make, gcc,
> kernel-headers, etc ) available for 2.3.
>
> Where can I get the, please?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Ángel Lafuente Echeazarra
> SOLID ROCK IT
> Tu departamento de informática
> http://www.solid-rock-it.com
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> Skype: Solid Rock IT: Angel Lafuente Echeazarra
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I've found the virtio drivers are not mature, and cannot be installed on my Windows 7 x64 vm installation because they are not signed drivers.

 

I have found the kvm e1000 network card emulation works great however, so I use that.

 

 

From: Nico Prenzel [mailto:Nico.Prenzel@...]
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 2:34 AM
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Subject: [Efw-user] Antwort: Devel tools for driver compilation

 

Hi,

I've  the same problem. I've tried to compile the virtio drivers to get an acceptable performance if you install the EFW onto a KVM host.

So, I want to second the request to publish the devel packages.

Thanks.

NicoP.

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[Nico Prenzel-2]

Hi Compdoc,

you're able to self sign the windows drivers(or install it with some super-admin install mode of Windows; don't exactly know the name). Search the linux-kvm.org page for the HowTo.

I do personally use the virtio drivers on my debian based guests an I do get noticeable better IO performance. The last non-virtio bastion is to be my EFW. And I expect it to be my performance bottleneck within my installation. So my intention is to get my EFW use the virtio drivers. But this need the EFW-Devel packages.

Any comments from the Endian team?


Thanks.

NicoP.

"compdoc" <compdoc@...>

05.11.2009 14:12

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I've found the virtio drivers are not mature, and cannot be installed on my Windows 7 x64 vm installation because they are not signed drivers.

 

I have found the kvm e1000 network card emulation works great however, so I use that.

 

 

From: Nico Prenzel [mailto:Nico.Prenzel@...]
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 2:34 AM
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Subject: [Efw-user] Antwort: Devel tools for driver compilation

 

Hi,

I've  the same problem. I've tried to compile the virtio drivers to get an acceptable performance if you install the EFW onto a KVM host.

So, I want to second the request to publish the devel packages.

Thanks.

NicoP.

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I've set up a server with 8 gigs of ram, a 4TB volume raid 5, and a quad core cpu running Centos 5.4 and kvm, and have found the virtio drivers (storage and network) are not any faster than the emulated hardware.

 

For storage, I use lvm to carve up the 4TB volume and present the smaller partitions as a block devices, and get amazing speed with the ide emulation – I think even faster than using the virtio drivers.

 

One nice thing about cirtix's xenserver drivers is that they have the ability to tell the VMs to shutdown cleanly when the system is rebooting. KVM doesn’t yet have that ability, and the VMs are just powered off like pulling the power cord when I need to reboot the server.

 

Personally, I don’t think there is any advantage for virtio drivers yet, but I hear redhat is working on it...

 

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[Nico Prenzel-2]

Do you talk of windows guest, as in your first mail?

For windows I do see (currently) no performance improvements. But for linux based guests, this is totally different. Furthermore the host kernel version needs to be a newer one to get any performance improvements. Is Centos 5.4 a 2.6.18 based kernel + red hat extensions? Pherhaps, this is the cause of your bad performance experience.

But to remember: I do want to compile/install the virtio drivers into my EFW box, not windows!

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I've set up a server with 8 gigs of ram, a 4TB volume raid 5, and a quad core cpu running Centos 5.4 and kvm, and have found the virtio drivers (storage and network) are not any faster than the emulated hardware.

 

For storage, I use lvm to carve up the 4TB volume and present the smaller partitions as a block devices, and get amazing speed with the ide emulation – I think even faster than using the virtio drivers.

 

One nice thing about cirtix's xenserver drivers is that they have the ability to tell the VMs to shutdown cleanly when the system is rebooting. KVM doesn’t yet have that ability, and the VMs are just powered off like pulling the power cord when I need to reboot the server.

 

Personally, I don’t think there is any advantage for virtio drivers yet, but I hear redhat is working on it...

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[compdoc]

I have both windows and linux guests, and I have 2 efw firewalls running virtual for myself, and one as a vm for a customer.

I cant get the linux drivers installed on any of them for the same reason you cant, but I find the performance perfectly acceptable. My customer has about 40 users, and two permanent (more or less) remote users by openvpn. Runs great, alongside a win2003 Server vm that's used to share a volume for backups.

I dont think I said I experienced any bad performance. I just havent noticed any perfomnace gains using virtio drivers versus using the e1000 emulation.

And yes, centos 5.4 is kernel 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5. But the performance is better on it than my tests with xen or kvm on ubuntu, for example. And even though Fedora 11 has the newest kernel and kvm versions, VMs running on centos are more stable and the tools like the virtual machine manager work better.

Anyway, good luck to you. I'd like to hear if you find a way to get the drivers installed.