[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#644125: Bug#644125: xenstore-utils has completely inadequate description

[Craig Sanders]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 02:11:52AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Because I agree with you, at the end of August, I sent a patch to the
> pkg-dev list in the hope of making it better:
> 
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-xen-devel/2011-August/003531.html
> 
> But nobody told me if it was ok to commit, if it would be accepted,
> rejected, if I should NMU the change, or whatever.
> 
> Please read my proposed change, and voice your opinion (or even better,
> modify and enhance my patch).

that's a fantastic improvement, thanks.

I still can't tell whether xenstore-utils should be installed on the
Dom0 or the DomU or both?  Both would be my guess.


my current situation (and the reason why i care about the desc for
this package) is that I inherited a Citrix Xen server (v5.0.0) with a
bunch of debian etch & lenny VMs running on them.  I've upgraded a few
to squeeze, but the xenserver host no longer knows what the guest's
OS/version is (says something about guest utilities not installed).

i've downloaded the latest citrix xe-guest-utilities that I could
find (xe-guest-utilities_5.6.0-595_i386.deb) which seems to contain
older versions of the same utils as xenstore-utils (but in /usr/bin
rather than /usr/sbin) PLUS an init.d script and xe-linux-distribution,
xe-daemon, xe-update-guest-attrs in /usr/sbin.

is there an equivalent to/replacement for those last 4 items in debian?

yes, i probably should rebuild that Citrix Xen server as a Debian Xen
server...but if i was going to go all that trouble and take all the VMs
down for the day or so it would take, I'd probably just convert it to
KVM.

I've gotta say, I much prefer KVM to Xen.  It's never given me anywhere
near as much grief as this Xen box has over the last few weeks.

craig

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