[Pkg-xen-devel] Xen 4.10 for Debian unstable

[Hans van Kranenburg]

Hi,

On 02/22/2018 01:03 AM, John Keates wrote:
> 
> First of all, thanks for the great work! I was wondering about a patch I tried to send in a while ago which enables OVMF. It’s a single line in the rules setup and doesn’t have any build-time or run-time dependencies until you actually change a domU configuration to use OVMF.
> 
> Currently I just rebuild all packages locally and add the line to debian/rules.real:
> 
>  --enable-ovmf --with-system-ovmf=/usr/share/ovmf/OVMF.fd 
> 
> Is this something that could be added to 4.10?

I guess so.

Which packages are your rebuilding? The 4.8 ones or are you creating
something based on the new 4.10 packages?

I can rtfm https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/OVMF but can you also
provide some kind of recipe how to set up a tl;dr domU using this as a
test case? If so, I can already test it myself already also.

For me, the most beautiful thing would be if you send a patch that
applies on top of https://salsa.debian.org/xen-team/debian-xen master
branch with a test report telling "it works \o/" (explaining what
actually works) when running a build made from that (see README.source
how to create a package).

It's just that there are so many things you can do with Xen, and I don't
remotely want to give the impression I understand all of them. (I've
been running Xen at work since 2006 but still discovering many new things).

Also, another logical question would be if you're willing to help
handling future debian bug reports that are related to OVMF after we
enable it. ;-)

Hans