Re: Xen 4.2 added to pkgsrc

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The latest xentools42 (nb2) fails to build for me on NetBSD amd64 6.1ish with:

cc1: warnings being treated as errors
drivers/net/tulip.c: In function 'tulip_poll':
drivers/net/tulip.c:1174:13: error: operation on 'tp->cur_rx' may be undefined
drivers/net/tulip.c:1183:16: error: operation on 'tp->cur_rx' may be undefined
gmake[6]: *** [bin/tulip.o] Error 1
gmake[6]: Leaving directory `/var/obj/pkg/sysutils/xentools42/work/ipxe/src'

Rolled back to 2013-05-26 (nb1) which built without issues

Testing under nb1:
- still needed to 'mkdir -p /var/run/xen' before xl would create any domains
- booting CentOS 6 still fails ( see below)

Linux version 2.6.18-348.4.1.el5xen (mockbuild%builder10.centos.org@localhost)
(gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-54)) #1 SMP Tue Apr 16
16:21:10 EDT 2013
[...]
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51712
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0
Initalizing network drop monitor service
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 506k
Red Hat nash version 5.1.19.6 starting
Mounting proc filesystem
Mounting sysfs filesystem
Creating /dev
Creating initial device nodes
Setting up hotplug.
Creating block device nodes.
Loading ehci-hcd.ko module
Loading ohci-hcd.ko module
Loading uhci-hcd.ko module
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
Loading jbd.ko module
Loading ext3.ko module
Loading xenblk.ko module
XENBUS: Waiting for devices to initialise:
295s...290s...285s...280s...275s...270s...265s...260s...255s...250s...245s...240s...235s...230s...225s...220s...

I see in dmesg
May 27 22:09:43 cerberus /netbsd: xbdback backend/vbd/2/51712: unknown
device 0x23e38

rc.conf has
xencommons=YES
xenwatchdog=YES

I also had a spontaneous reboot, about 2 minutes after I ran a script
to fire up all 8 guests at once.

Trying to create the jira VM again gave:

libxl: error: libxl_device.c:859:device_backend_callback: unable to
connect device with path /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/3/51712
libxl: error: libxl_create.c:951:domcreate_launch_dm: unable to add disk devices
libxl: error: libxl_device.c:859:device_backend_callback: unable to
disconnect device with path /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/3/51712
libxl: error: libxl.c:1450:devices_destroy_cb: libxl__devices_destroy
failed for 3

jira.cfg is now:

name = "jira"
memory = "1536"
disk = [ 'file:/opt/xen/img/jira.img,xvda,w', ]
vif = [ 'mac=02:00:00:00:01:03, bridge=bridge0', ]
bootloader = "/usr/pkg/bin/pygrub"
vcpus = 3

Back to xen41 again for now

(This is a remote machine, with "some" remote hands, so will probably
not be riding the bleeding edge :)

Thanks