Re: xen-4.5 on NetBSD/amd64-6.1.5

[david l goodrich <dlg%dsrw.org@localhost>]

On Friday, April 24, 2015, Greg A. Woods <woods%planix.ca@localhost> wrote:
> At Thu, 23 Apr 2015 19:52:17 -0500, david l goodrich <dlg%dsrw.org@localhost> wrote:
> Subject: xen-4.5 on NetBSD/amd64-6.1.5
> >
> > I just tried upgrading from xen 4.2 to 4.5, but my NetBSD domUs
> > won't boot.  I am not having any luck tracking down a reason,
> > does anyone have any pointers?
>
> I had a lot of problems getting the new xl.cfg(5) parser to accept
> old-style and now-deprecated "disk" and "vif" entries, but then again I
> wasn't starting with existing working examples, and was making things up
> without really knowing what would work.
>
> Anyway, I would recommend converting to the new preferred style:
>
>   disk = [
>     'format=raw, vdev=0x1, access=rw, target=/dev/mapper/small-vm.router',
>          ]
>
> The syntax is still horrid -- I wish they had changed it to something
> entirely new and simpler instead of this half-baked looks-like-python-
> but-really-definitely-is-NOT-python mess that it is now.  (E.g. the way
> the "target" parameter is hackishly parsed, or not parsed, if you will).

That is a horrid format.  I was able to get away with s/phy/raw/g across all my configs, though. It appears 'phy' has been removed from 4.5. Thanks for the pointer to get me going in the right direction. 

--david

> Also, run the create with lots of verbosity (xl -vvv create), and check
> the Xen/dom0 console output too (dmesg && xl dmesg).  Those may give
> more clues as to where the problem is occurring.
>
> --
>                                                 Greg A. Woods
>                                                 Planix, Inc.
>
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