Re: call for testing: xen 4.1 packages

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 06:11:17PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 01:55:33PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > In /etc/rc.conf add:
> > > 
> > > xend=YES
> > > 
> > > Differences to earlier xen versions:
> > > 
> > > xenbackendd=YES is no longer needed in rc.conf.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I highly recommend the use of 'xl'. xl is basically 'xm' rewritten in C.
> > > The syntax and usage of xl is equivalent to xm.
> > > 
> > > xl does not require xend to run.
> > > xl requires xenstored and xenconsoled to run.
> > > xend no longer starts them automatically.
> > > The xencommon start script starts xenstored, xenconsoled and xenbackendd.
> > 
> > there is no xencommon script inclued with your package.
> 
> I finally found it, but it was installed in /usr/pkg/etc/rc.d/ instead
> of /usr/share/example/rc.d/
> I fixed this, and added them to files/ so they can be handled by
> the RCD_SCRIPTS system
> 
> > I started xenstored, xenconsoled and xenbackendd by hand.
> > Then xl complained that there was no /var/run/xenstored.pid; indeed there
> > was none while xenstored was running properly.
> > I created one with touch and now xl is happy:
> 
> using xencommon seems to have fixed this.
> 
> > [...]
> > xl create complains with:
> > borneo:/usr/pkg-xen33#xl create -c /usr/pkg/etc/xen/nb1
> > Parsing config file /usr/pkg/etc/xen/nb1
> > cannot open the lockfile /usr/pkg/var/lib/xl errno=2
> > 
> > this should probably be changed to /var/run
> 
> I fixed this; more patches ...

I forgot to mention the URL to my updated package:
ftp://ftp-asim.lip6.fr/outgoing/bouyer/xentools41.tar.gz

this also has some PLIST fixes, and patches for things like man pages
installed in the wrong directory.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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