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From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Error reporting capabilities for libxc
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:09:38 +0100
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On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 10:04:59PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 07:00:17PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 
> > Attached is an update to the original patch which annotates the static
> > variables with __thread so that they are setup per-thread. It also adds
> > more informative error reporting for bad kernels.
> 
> It needs merging with latest tip I think. xc_private.h is missing a
> prototype for xc_set_error(), so it doesn't compile. Also it
> re-introduces ERR(), which causes problems for us, and can just be
> removed.

Ah yes, I hadn't noticed there were xen-unstable changes in this area. I
did the patch against 3.0.3  final release. I'll rebase to xen-unstable
before posting again.

> I fixed these two problems and did some simple tests on Solaris; all
> seems OK:
> 
> bash-3.00# xm create -c johnlev-64.py
> Using config file "johnlev-64.py".
> Error: [2, 'Invalid kernel', "Kernel ELF architecture '62' does not match Xen architecture '3' (i386)"]
> 
> (It's so wonderful to get a meaningful error message at last!!)

Thats good news, thanks for testing it.

Regards,
Dan.
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