[Pkg-xen-devel] Ubuntu delta against 4.5.0-1 in experimental for disussion

Ian Campbell Ian.Campbell at citrix.com
Thu Jan 29 13:01:22 UTC 2015


On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 15:43 +0100, Stefan Bader wrote:
> On 23.01.2015 15:23, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 14:56 +0100, Stefan Bader wrote:
> >> On 22.01.2015 17:02, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 13:02 +0100, Stefan Bader wrote:
> >>>> That one modifies xen-init-list to look at domains managed by the xl namespace.
> >>>> This additionally works around a bug in xl which will report a syntax error when
> >>>> "xl list -l" is called while domains in a different namespace exist. Which is
> >>>> the case when libvirt is used to start them.
> >>>
> >>> FWIW in 4.5 xl is supposed to be more tolerant of domains started by
> >>> another toolstack (so long as they are using the libxl framework). In
> >>> particular I think "xl list -l" is supposed to cope with libvirt domains
> >>> now.
> >>
> >> Did some more hands-on testing now and it looks like the old problem is indeed
> >> fixed. Though there is now a
> >>
> >> libxl: error: libxl.c:6571:libxl_retrieve_domain_configuration: fail to get
> >> domain configuration for domain 0
> >>
> >> But that does not look to be causing problems.
> > 
> > Running xen-init-dom0 from the initscript (instead of the manual
> > xenstore-write's etc) should fix that, I forgot about that.
> 
> Ah ok. Just verified that and will be updating the initscript here.

See feature/xen-init-dom0 in the xen.git packaging tree for how I fixed
it...

Ian.





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