Re: call for testing: xen 4.1 packages

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

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 01:10:43PM -0500, Toby Karyadi wrote:
> On 3/31/2011, "Manuel Bouyer" <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> >
> >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.
> >
> >--
> >Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
> >     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
> >--
> 
> I found that 'xm create' works fine for both PV and HVM DomU even with
> the xentools41 prior to version above. With xl, I encountered similar
> problems with my PV DomU, such as connecting to the console during
> create and essentially the domain just didn't start. Once the domain is
> running (i.e. using xm) I was able to use xl console just fine.

for me, 'xm create' complains with:
borneo:/usr/pkg/share/examples/xen#xm create nb1
Using config file "/usr/pkg/etc/xen/nb1".
Error: need more than 1 value to unpack

looks like a python error, maybe something in the domU config file,
but I don't even know at what to look. no domU is started.

> 
> One unusual thing that I noticed in /var/log/xen is that when I used xl
> create for my PV DomU, a log with the name
> 'qemu-dm-<pv_domu_name>.log' is created. That is not the case when I
> used xm create (for a PV DomU) . What does qemu-dm have anything to do
> for a PV DomU? 

As i understood it, backend drivers have moved to userland (in qemu-dm)
even for PV guests.

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