[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#650696: Virsh can't convert native xen-xm format file to XML

[Tony Colin]

Package: libvirt-bin
Version: 0.9.2-7~bpo60+1
File: /usr/bin/virsh
Severity: normal

Hello everyone,

I have been trying to convert a normal config.cfg file to python format
using the libvirt packages
provided by Debian Squeeze repositories, but it exits given the following
error:

# virsh -c xen:/// domxml-from-native xen-xm winxp.cfg > config.xml
error: An error occurred, but the cause is unknown

Yet, I tested it with libvirt versions 0.8.3 and 0.9.2 (most recent in
Debian Squeeze for AMD64).
For reference, I attatch my config.cfg file but indeed there are no last
entries giving information about
the error neither in /var/log/messages nor in /var/log/libvirt/libvirtd.log.

Virsh information is described as follows:
Compiled against library: libvir 0.9.2
Using library: libvir 0.9.2
Using API: Xen 3.0.1
Running hypervisor: Xen 4.1.0

I have solved the issue of converting to XML by doing:
# xm new winxp.cfg
and
# virsh dumpxml winxp

But I keep trying to find the solution for virsh and suggest that this
problem be corrected.

Thanks a lot.

Anthony.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libvirt-bin depends on:
ii  adduser            3.112+nmu2            add and remove users and groups
ii  gettext-base       0.18.1.1-3            GNU Internationalization
utilities
ii  libavahi-client3   0.6.27-2+squeeze1     Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3   0.6.27-2+squeeze1     Avahi common library
ii  libblkid1          2.17.2-9              block device id library
ii  libc6              2.11.2-10             Embedded GNU C Library: Shared
lib
ii  libcap-ng0         0.6.4-1               An alternate posix
capabilities li
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.48-5           The Linux Kernel Device Mapper
use
ii  libgcrypt11        1.4.5-2               LGPL Crypto library - runtime
libr
ii  libgnutls26        2.8.6-1               the GNU TLS library - runtime
libr
ii  libnl1             1.1-6                 library for dealing with
netlink s
ii  libparted0debian1  2.3-5                 The GNU Parted disk
partitioning s
ii  libpciaccess0      0.12.0-1              Generic PCI access library for
X
ii  libreadline6       6.1-3                 GNU readline and history
libraries
ii  libsasl2-2         2.1.23.dfsg1-7        Cyrus SASL - authentication
abstra
ii  libudev0           164-3                 libudev shared library
ii  libuuid1           2.17.2-9              Universally Unique ID library
ii  libvirt0           0.9.2-7~bpo60+1       library for interfacing with
diffe
ii  libxenstore3.0     4.0.1-4               Xenstore communications
library fo
ii  libxml2            2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze1 GNOME XML library
ii  logrotate          3.7.8-6               Log rotation utility

Versions of packages libvirt-bin recommends:
ii  bridge-utils       1.4-5                 Utilities for configuring the
Linu
ii  dmidecode          2.9-1.2               Dump Desktop Management
Interface
ii  dnsmasq-base       2.55-2                A small caching DNS proxy and
DHCP
ii  ebtables           2.0.9.2-2             Ethernet bridge frame table
admini
ii  gawk               1:3.1.7.dfsg-5        GNU awk, a pattern scanning
and pr
ii  iproute            20100519-3            networking and traffic control
too
ii  iptables           1.4.8-3               administration tools for
packet fi
ii  libxml2-utils      2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze1 XML utilities
ii  netcat-openbsd     1.89-4                TCP/IP swiss army knife
pn  qemu-kvm | qemu    <none>                (no description available)

Versions of packages libvirt-bin suggests:
pn  policykit-1                   <none>     (no description available)
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