[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#852069: DomU guests with pygrub as bootloader do not start after, upgrade from Xen 4.1 (wheezy) to Xen 4.4 (jessie)

[Michael Bilow]

Package: xen-utils-4.4
Version: 4.4.1-9+deb8u8
Severity: normal

Under Xen 4.1 in Debian 7 (wheezy), the following works when included in a
DomU configuration in "/etc/xen/cfg/" --

	bootloader   = '/usr/lib/xen-default/bin/pygrub'

After upgrading to Xen 4.4 as part of an upgrade to Debian 8 (jessie), the
DomU silently fails to start. Examination of the log files shows that the
cause is that the old path for "bootloader" no longer exists. Correcting the
DomU configuration manually to the new path works --

	bootloader   = '/usr/lib/xen-4.4/bin/pygrub'

I would assume that creating a symlink would work also, and perhaps the
package installer should do it (in "/usr/lib", "ln -s xen-4.4 xen-default").


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.7
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages xen-utils-4.4 depends on:
ii  e2fslibs          1.42.12-2+b1
ii  libc6             2.19-18+deb8u7
ii  libncurses5       5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii  libtinfo5         5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii  libxen-4.4        4.4.1-9+deb8u8
ii  libxenstore3.0    4.4.1-9+deb8u8
ii  libyajl2          2.1.0-2
ii  python2.7         2.7.9-2+deb8u1
pn  python:any        <none>
ii  xen-utils-common  4.4.1-9+deb8u8

Versions of packages xen-utils-4.4 recommends:
ii  bridge-utils                                   1.5-9
ii  grub-xen-host                                  2.02~beta2-22+deb8u1
pn  qemu-system-x86                                <none>
ii  xen-hypervisor-4.4-amd64 [xen-hypervisor-4.4]  4.4.1-9+deb8u8

xen-utils-4.4 suggests no packages.

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