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# Build from source

## Daemon and CLI client:

Clone hyper in GoPath

> cd ${GOPATH}/src mkdir -p github.com/hyperhq cd github.com/hyperhq git clone <https://github.com/hyperhq/hyperd.git>

And make sure you have `go` (>= 1.5, 1.7 or later is recommended) and `autotools`, develop files of `libdevmapper`, `libsqlite3`, `libvirt-devel` then

> cd hyperd ./autogen.sh ./configure make

(If you want to build without Xen support, use configure option `--without-xen`.)

Then you can get the binaries `hyperd` daemon and `hyperctl` CLI tool.

## Build Xen from source

Download Xen 4.5.0 or later version, and configure with the following option

> ./configure --with-extra-qemuu-configure-args="--enable-virtfs"

## Guest Kernel and Initrd

Clone hyperstart

> git clone <https://github.com/hyperhq/hyperstart.git> hyperstart

And build with autotools

> ./autogen.sh ./configure make

Then you can find `hyper-initrd.img` in build directory, together with a pre-build `kernel`. You can also find the `kernel_config` in the repo.

## Build Qemu

Hyperd could work with vanilla qemu 2.0 or newer, however, we provided our branch with some patches from hyper:

```
https://github.com/hyperhq/qemu/tree/2.4.1-template
```

If you build Qemu from source, don't forget enable virtfs (`--enable-virtfs`) during configuration.

## Build Your Own Kernel

You can reference the [Hyper kernel configuration](https://github.com/hyperhq/hyperstart/blob/master/build/kernel_config).

You can find related configuration items in [the config file](https://github.com/hyperhq/hyper/tree/c752a6568ed395f406f911d474f9acab037747a1/reference/configuration.html).