Re: issues upgrading to 4.13

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

On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:30:21PM +1300, Mark Davies wrote:
> Hi,
>    I just updated one of our Xen boxes from NetBSD 8.1_STABLE, xen 4.11
> to NetBSD 9.1_STABLE, xen 4.13.  Things seem to be mostly working
> smoothly but I have a couple of issues.
> 
> 1) xenstored is running at around 99% cpu, previously it hardly registered.

I'm not seeing this. Not sure how to debug it; maybe try a ktrace
to see what it's doing ?

> 
> 2) My NetBSD and Linux PV clients seem to be running fine, but I have 2
> Windows Server HVM clients and neither of those are starting properly -
> certainly not getting far enough to be pingable.
> 
> The qemu-dm-XXX.log reports lots of:
> qemu-system-i386: failed to create 'qdisk' device '5632': no dev parameter

I've also been migrating HVM guests from 4.11 to 4.13 and I've not
seen this. It's probably related to your disk = parameter;
what do you have ?

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