Re: upgrading a dom0 box

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

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:32:17AM +1200, Mark Davies wrote:
> Hi,
>    I want to upgrade a NetBSD 5.1_STABLE/amd64 dom0 box to a 
> current(ish) system.  As a first step I tried booting the new 
> XEN3_DOM0 kernel leaving the userland unchanged.
> 
> The system came up but when it tried to start the client domains it 
> would print:
> 
> 
> Jun 14 09:25:37 green-mountain /netbsd: xbd backend: attach device 
> vnd0d (size 80005120) for domain 1
> 
> pause for a bit then print
> 
> Jun 14 09:27:17 green-mountain /netbsd: xbd backend: detach device 
> vnd0d for domain 1
> 
> the xend.log has
> 
> [2012-06-14 09:25:37 281] DEBUG (DevController:166) Waiting for 
> devices vif.
> [2012-06-14 09:25:37 281] DEBUG (DevController:171) Waiting for 0.
> [2012-06-14 09:25:37 281] DEBUG (DevController:656) 
> hotplugStatusCallback /local/domain/0/backend/vif/1/0/hotplug-
> status.
> [2012-06-14 09:27:17 281] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:2409) 
> XendDomainInfo.destroy: domid=1
> 
> whereas a normal startup is
> 
> [2012-06-14 09:37:13 286] DEBUG (DevController:166) Waiting for 
> devices vif.
> [2012-06-14 09:37:13 286] DEBUG (DevController:171) Waiting for 0.
> [2012-06-14 09:37:13 286] DEBUG (DevController:656) 
> hotplugStatusCallback /local/domain/0/backend/vif/1/0/hotplug-
> status.
> [2012-06-14 09:37:13 286] DEBUG (DevController:670) 
> hotplugStatusCallback 1.
> 
> This is xen{tools,kernel}33.
> 
> So is there some bit of the current userland I need for this to work?  
> (dont want to commit to a nonreversable change till I'm happy this 
> will work).

Anything in xenbackendd.log ?
It seems to fail to setup the vif, is the bridge interface setup and
working ?

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