RE: [PATCH] 3.1.3 (and ??) timer_mode fix in xend for virt-install

["Dan Magenheimer" <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>]

> so can't confirm that yet. I'll try and reproduce it - what 
> error were you getting
> when trying to create a VM ?  libvirt doesn't specify any 
> timer_mode parameter
> when creating VMs, so it should use whatever XenD's default 
> is for that.

Traceback below.

Yeah, I'm no parseltongue but I think the default wasn't
specified properly.

Note also that I am using python-virtinst-0.99 so maybe
the interface to the XendServer has changed in more recent
releases and wouldn't provoke the problem?

Dan


Starting install...
libvir: Xen Daemon error : GET operation failed:
libvir: Xen Daemon error : POST operation failed: (xend.err 'Error creating doma
in: long() argument must be a string or a number')
Failed to create domain foo
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/virt-install", line 476, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/virt-install", line 440, in main
    dom = guest.start_install(conscb)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/XenGuest.py", line 382, in sta
rt_install
    self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(cxml, 0)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 249, in createLinux
    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed')
libvirt.libvirtError: virDomainCreateLinux() failed