[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#562703: Bug#562703: qemu-dm missing from xen-utils-3.4

[Thomas Goirand]

Daniel Walrond wrote:
> My main worry before reporting anything in detail was that the packages
> were compatible. Since there's a minor version difference between the
> packages. So that might be the reason for the problem I'm seeing.

I'll update it.

> Is Xen 4.0.0 going to make it into Squeeze? I'll happily test that if
> that is the case. I am currently testing out Squeeze to see if it is
> suitable for running Xen. I've been happy with the Lenny setup.

There's currently an ongoing discussion in -devel started by Bastian to
see if we should use 3.4 or 4.0. For the moment, nearly everyone is
saying that 4.0 would be a better choice. So it would be the opposite
way: is 3.4 going to make it into Squeeze, rather than 4.0.

>> Now, just saying "fails at 9% of the installation" doesn't help me at
>> all. What exactly failed? What happened, and how?
> 
> Started a reqular installation, then the VM crashes. It seems to always
> fail at the same point in the installation, which is quite early on.
> 
>> What's in your /var/log/xen/*.log files, and especially that qemu log?
>> What makes you think that specifically, the issue is in xen-qemu-dm?
> 
> I've attached the log files, but the log entries which occur just after
> the crash are:

Can you please try with Xen 4.0 from experimental, and if it does the
same, let me know (with log entries)? I'll then forward it to the
persons that are co-maintaining with me. FYI:

http://ftparchive.gplhost.com/debian/pool/lenny/main/x/xen-qemu-dm-4.0/

I think that you must have done it by yourself, but I say it still. You
will need to fix the keyboard maps symlink in
/usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps, otherwise Xen wont find it. What I did is
simply this:

zigo at GPLHost:buzzig>_ /usr/share/xen$ ls -lah
total 16K
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K 2010-06-11 16:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 386 root root  12K 2010-06-11 16:45 ..
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   15 2010-06-11 16:46 qemu -> /usr/share/qemu

I didn't do it in the package yet, because this keymaps folder should
really NOT be in the qemu package. I have open bugs in the BTS, but yet
this is still an ongoing issue.

Obviously, this doesn't depend on any version of Xen (do it once, and it
will be ok for 3.4 AND 4.0).

Thomas