Bug#392109: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#392109: bug in xen-utils

[Bastian Blank]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 12:35:03PM +0200, Christian Schwamborn wrote:
> while trying to get xen work, I encountered two problems:
> 1. I don't know if its really an error, but I think something is messed up with the subdir-name /usr/lib/xen-3.0.2-1 because the version-number of the package suggests that it is an other version, than the subdir says. Every time when I call xm for example I get:
> WARING!  Can't find version 3.0.2-3-1 of xen utils, fallback to default version!

It was one and is fixed in NEW.

> 2. The script network-bridge tries to load the kernel-module netloop at the top of the script
> modprobe netloop > /dev/null 2>&1
> this fails because there is no module and the script does not create any interfaces and stops. I think it's build into the xen-kernel. The bridge-interfaces where created after removing this line from the script.

It never uses set -e which will ask the shell to bail out on errors, so
why does it fail?

> I'm using Debian etch with Kernel 2.6.16-2-xen-686, by the way: kernel 2.6.17-?-xen-686 does not boot, my machine (proliant 5500 4xP3-500, 2,5GB RAM) reboots before any logs where written.

You have to use a newer hypervisor.

Bastian

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