[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#536176: Bug#536176: xen-utils-3.4: trying xen-3.4 once breaks xen-3.2 (?)

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 01:28:18AM +0200, Csillag Kristof wrote:
> 
> Package: xen-utils-3.4
> Version: 3.4.0-1
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks unrelated software
> 
> After installing xen-utils-3.4 besides my existing xen-3.2 system,
> I could not start xend-3.2 anymore. The message I was getting is this:
> 
>     "Failed to initialize dom0 state."
> 
> As far as I know, xen 3.2 and 3.4 are supposed to be able to live
> peacefully  on the same system. (The hypervisor and the utils are
> in differently named packages.)
> 
> However, after the first experiment with 3.4 (which failed because
> of a different bug), I could not go back to xen 3.2.
> 
> I rebooted to the correct hypervisor, and ran the current version
> of tools, but it did not work any more. (I did not have time
> to track down the reason this time.)
> 
> This causes quite a problem, since the new 3.4 version can not
> be considered a drop-in replacement of the older 3.2 (HVM support
> is disabled, for example), so this caused a sesiour problem,
> at least for me.
> 

What do you mean with HVM support is disabled? Xen 3.4.0 definitely supports
HVM guests.

-- Pasi