Compile additional packages for Oracle VM Server

I needed a special package on my OVM Server 3.4.6.
The package is called fio and is needed to do some I/O performance tests.
Unfortunately, OVM Server does not provide any package for compiling software and installing additional software to your OVM Server is also not supported.
But there is a solution:

Insatll a VM with Oracle VM Server 3.4.6 and added the official OVM SDK repositories:


rm -f /etc/yum.repos.d/*
echo '
[ovm34]
name=Oracle Linux $releasever Latest ($basearch)
baseurl=http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleVM/OVM3/34_latest/x86_64/
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
[ol6_latest]
name=Oracle Linux $releasever Latest ($basearch)
baseurl=http://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/latest/$basearch/
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
[ol6_addons]
name=Oracle Linux $releasever Add ons ($basearch)
baseurl=http://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/addons/$basearch/
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
[ol6_UEKR4]
name=Latest Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 4 for Oracle Linux $releasever ($basearch)
baseurl=http://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/UEKR4/$basearch/
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1 ' > /etc/yum.repos.d/ovm-sdk.repo

Now install the necessary packages and compile your software:

On OVM 3.4 SDK VM
yum install -y gcc make zlib-devel libaio libaio-devel
wget https://codeload.github.com/axboe/fio/zip/master
unzip master
cd fio-master
./configure
make


Copy the compiled executable “fio” to your OVM Server or to an attached NFS share.
Run the program and do what you wanna do.

In my case I will run several different performance tests, but that is a story for an other blog post.

Reference: Oracle VM 3: How-to build an Oracle VM 3.3/3.4 SDK platform (Doc ID 2160955.1)