[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#783346: Bug #783346: patch for booting Jessie domU with wheezy dom0

[Daniel Pocock]

On 20/01/2019 19:01, Hans van Kranenburg wrote:
> reassign 783346 src:xen 4.1.4-3+deb7u4
> severity 783346 normal
> thanks
> 
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> This is about the bug report that you filed before about pygrub in the
> Debian bug tracker against the Xen packages.
> 
> Your bug report was targeted at a Xen package in a Debian distribution
> older than the current stable (Stretch), and I'm trying to clean up our
> open bug report list a bit.
> 
> In the bug history, I see that already was suggested to use the grub2
> based way of booting the virtual machines instead of pygrub. This is
> still recommended.
> 
> Addtionally, the grub-xen-* packages in Debian Buster will now also be
> able to boot a Xen domU using the new PVH virtualization mode, if you
> use the Debian Linux 4.19 kernel package inside.
> 
> Am I right to understand that we can close this bug report now?
> 

If you are still distributing the script with the bug, then I would
recommend:

a) check if the patch is now included upstream, if yes, close the bug, or

b) include the patch in the Debian package, or

c) stop installing the pygrub script in the package so that users have
to use pygrub2 or something else.

However, I migrated from Xen to KVM so I'm not using the package
personally any more.

Regards,

Daniel