Re: call for testing: xen 4.1 packages

[Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

> > > /var/log/xen/xend.log or /var/log/xen/xend-debug.log should contain
> > > a python backtrace where the error happened.
> >
> > Nothing shows up in xend-debug.log. In xend.log I see:
> > [2011-03-31 23:45:51 12525] ERROR (xmlrpclib2:181) Internal error handling 
> > xend.domain.create
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >    File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xen/util/xmlrpclib2.py", line 
> > 134, in _marshaled_dispatch
> >      response = self._dispatch(method, params)
> >    File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.6/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py", line 418, in _dispatch
> >      return func(*params)
> >    File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/server/XMLRPCServer.py", 
> > line 80, in domain_create
> >      info = XendDomain.instance().domain_create(config)
> >    File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomain.py", line 
> > 1001, in domain_create
> >      dominfo = XendDomainInfo.create(config)
> >    File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line 
> > 106, in create
> >      vm.start()
> >    File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line 
> > 473, in start
> >      XendTask.log_progress(0, 30, self._constructDomain)
> >    File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendTask.py", line 209, 
> > in log_progress
> >      retval = func(*args, **kwds)
> >      balloon.free(16*1024, self) # 16MB should be plenty
> >    File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/balloon.py", line 117, 
> > in free
> >      dom0_alloc = get_dom0_current_alloc()
> >    File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/balloon.py", line 59, in 
> > get_dom0_current_alloc
> >      kb = _get_proc_balloon('current')
> >    File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/balloon.py", line 54, in 
> > _get_proc_balloon
> >      return osdep.lookup_balloon_stat(label)
> >    File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/osdep.py", line 97, in 
> > _netbsd_balloon_stat
> >      (name, value) = sysctloutput.split('=')
> > ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack
>
> If you are on NetBSD-5 then pull up  dom0 balloon support from -current
> then the error goes away.

To be more precise, you don't need to pull up the full balloon support.
The python code expects the following sysctl's available:

kern.xen.balloon.current
kern.xen.balloon.target

Christoph