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

[Csillag Kristof]

Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> What do you mean with HVM support is disabled? Xen 3.4.0 definitely supports
> HVM guests.
>   
Xen does, but the current debian package does not seem to.

The changelog says so:

xen-3 (3.4.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
          [...]
       * Remove ioemu for now. (closes: #490409, #496367)
           [...]

...and if I try to create a HVM guest:

in /var/log/xen/qemu-dm-<domain_name>:

---
failed to set up fds or execute dm /usr/lib/xen-3.4/bin/qemu-dm:
['OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory\n']
----

and indeed, /usr/lib/xen-3.4/bin/qemu-dm is missing.

(The same binary exists in the xen-utils-3.2 package)

     * * *

So, it seems to me that HVM support is disabled in the current package.

FWIW, I consider the fact that this information is hidden in the changelog
a bug. (Therefore I created #536175 ), but this is a separate issue.
<mailto:536175 at bugs.debian.org>