[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#502117: libvirt-bin: Doesn't create /etc/xen/vm_name after installing a new domU

[André Luís Lopes]

Package: libvirt-bin
Version: 0.4.4-3
Severity: important


   First of all, I'm not sure to which package this bug belongs. I
noticed the same behaviour using both virt-install and virt-manager, so
I think it may be libvirt's fault.

   I have just upgraded to linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686 (linux-2.6
source package version 2.6.26-8) and wanted to try its new Xen dom0
support on this machine, an Intel QuadCore under which CentOS 5.2 Xen
runs fine (both dom0 and domU), but I prefer Debian :-)

   First, I tried installing CentOS 5.2 as a guest under it, by using
the following virt-install command line :

$ sudo virt-install --paravirt --name centos --ram 512 --file
/dev/vm/centos --nographic --location nfs:192.168.10.133:/install

   The guest machine was installed fine. It rebooted, the VM started
again, I logged into it and everything was fine. Then I did a shutdown
inside the machine (using "init 0") and watched the messages from the
various services stopping.

   After that, I was taken to the dom0 console and tried to start the
guest again using :

$ sudo xm create /etc/xen/centos

   I received a "Error: Unable to open config file: /etc/xen/centos".
Surely, as there was no /etc/xen/centos created during the guest install.

   There is, however, a file under /var/lib/xend/domains/<dom_id> called
config.sxp, which seems to have the guest's config but which is not
using the same syntax accepted by Xen's xm command.

   I repeated the same install using virt-install two times and got the
same results. Then I repeated the same install using virt-manager and
also got the same results.

   Also, It's important to say that when using "xm list", the guest
machine is listed as if it was a running VM, but with no state indicated
in the State column, as can be seen bellow :

$ xm list
Name                                        ID   Mem VCPUs      State
Time(s)
Domain-0                                     0  1500     4     r-----
 304.1
centos                                           512     1
  28.4
$

   The only way to remove the machine and to install it again to repeat
the tests was removing the /var/lib/xend/domains/<dom_id> directory,
removing the /dev/vm/centos LV and recreating it again.

   I'm attaching the /var/lib/xend/domains/<dom_id>/config.sxp file for
reference. Let me know if you need any other file.

Regards,


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-xen-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libvirt-bin depends on:
ii  adduser                3.110             add and remove users and groups
ii  libavahi-client3       0.6.23-2          Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3       0.6.23-2          Avahi common library
ii  libc6                  2.7-14            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.1-3           simple interprocess
messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11            1.4.1-1           LGPL Crypto library -
runtime libr
ii  libgnutls26            2.4.2-1           the GNU TLS library -
runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0          1.4-2             library for common error
values an
ii  libpolkit-dbus2        0.9-1             library for accessing
PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit2             0.9-1             library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  libreadline5           5.2-3             GNU readline and history
libraries
ii  libsasl2-2             2.1.22.dfsg1-23   Cyrus SASL - authentication
abstra
ii  libtasn1-3             1.5-1             Manage ASN.1 structures
(runtime)
ii  libvirt0               0.4.4-3           library for interfacing
with diffe
ii  libxenstore3.0         3.2.1-2           Xenstore communications
library fo
ii  libxml2                2.6.32.dfsg-4     GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages libvirt-bin recommends:
ii  bridge-utils                  1.4-5      Utilities for configuring
the Linu
ii  dnsmasq                       2.45-1     A small caching DNS proxy
and DHCP
ii  iptables                      1.4.1.1-4  administration tools for
packet fi
ii  netcat-openbsd                1.89-3     TCP/IP swiss army knife

Versions of packages libvirt-bin suggests:
pn  policykit                     <none>     (no description available)

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André Luís Lopes
andrelop@{andrelop,debian}.org
http://www.andrelop.org/blog/
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