Icon appears in the XOA interface
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After compiling the necessary kernel packages and configuring the xe-guest-utilities in Slackware, no icon appears in the XOA interface. Do you have any tips on where I can adjust this to appear?
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What is the base OS? Also, this may not matter, but that template did you use to create the VM?
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Danp Slackware does not have a base OS, it is the basis for other OS, just like Debian.
Hardware virtualization with paravirtualization drivers enabled (PVHVM)
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The process of adding new icons is supposed to be easier in XO6. You may want to open an issue on Github requesting the addition of this icon.
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eurodrigolira Sorry to revive this topic, but do you have pointers on how to build a slackware package for xe-guest-utilities? I'm trying to add the VM guest tools to UnRAID and I'm not having much luck.
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You should try with the new Rust binary, it will be a lot easier: https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen-guest-agent
If you have questions about it, ask yann or TeddyAstie
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olivierlambert Thanks for the suggestion! The problem is I have no idea where I would start to build it for Slackware. I'll see if I can figure it out but with my research, I'm not quite sure I'll be able to.
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That's a good question, I think any Rust toolchain should be able to build it. But TeddyAstie and/or yann will answer that better than me!
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It's something on XO side IIRC.
XO needs to have icons for Slackware as it doesn't have it yet. -
We won't add icons in XO 5 anymore, but for XO 6 yes, we'll have a better system so anyone could contribute easily. The question TeddyAstie was about building the Rust tools on Slackware
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The guest agent is built like any Rust program (so basically getting the toolchain with
rustup, thencargo build --releasein the guest agent directory).
Currently, there is some dependency on Xen-specific libraries unless https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen-guest-agent/-/merge_requests/93 is merged (poke yann).Alternatively take the Linux x86 64bit executable in https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen-guest-agent/-/releases (which I assume works on Slackware).
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Maelstrom96 said in Icon appears in the XOA interface:
do you have pointers on how to build a slackware package for xe-guest-utilities?
If you still want to have a try at building (even though that will not let XO show an icon) the first question is, do you really want to build a slackware package (as in "contribute a package to Slackware so it is available to all Slackware users), or just get it built.
In the latter case, TeddyAstie answered already, but if you really want to get into packaging, you should look on the Slackware side (e.g. here). I would have added "you may also want to have a look at any existing packaging of a Rust program", but given how "unstructured" the whole thing seems to be (I stand quite surprised of those 1995-looking all-manual instructions), you should be able to build a package once you've built the binary usingrustup.
