Hi! Please find attached xe-guest-utilities-5.5.0.ebuild and a patch so that it will work with Gentoo. xe-guest-utilities are Citrix XenServer 5.5.0 Tools to make a Gentoo guest host optimized on a Citrix XenServer host server. Original source can be found on http://updates.xensource.com/XenServer/5.5.0/debian/. And I made a patch to transform this Debian package source to a Gentoo compliant package. I also made a version for Citrix XenServer 5.5.0 Update 1. I'll post it as a reply to this post. I suggest app-emulation/xe-guest-utilities. -- Benoit Merouze R&D Manager - IPercom
Created attachment 217623 [details] xe-guest-utilities-5.5.0.ebuild
Created attachment 217626 [details, diff] xe-guest-utilities-5.5.0-gentoo.patch
And here is xe-guest-utilities-5.5.0_p1.ebuild for XenServer 5.5.0 Update 1, and the patch used to update XenServer Tools.
Created attachment 217628 [details] xe-guest-utilities-5.5.0_p1.ebuild
Created attachment 217630 [details, diff] xe-guest-utilities-5.5.0-464.patch
Thank you for report. Now this package will wait for dedicated maintainer in Gentoo, but for the time being I suggest you to put and maintain this package in Sunrise overlay: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/ this way developers will help you to improve ebuild, and other users will gain easy access to this work.
XenServer has now reached version 5.6 SP 2. I have 2 boxes running it, and can donate some time testing. How can I help?
Voted up. IMHO, this is actually kindof important in order to increase viability of Gentoo on many Xen-based cloud platforms. There are workaround in place (some cloud server providers just have these tools installs without a package manager, while others, such as Rackspace Cloud Servers, actually have rpm installed (blech) to handle installation of xe-guest-utilities). The majority of new deployments are now cloud-based. I think anything Gentoo can do to be a good fit for that is a good move.
