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From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 3.1.3 (and ??) timer_mode fix in xend for
	virt-install
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:34:58 +0000
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On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 09:59:27PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 02:41:53PM -0700, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> > virt-install is a tool on the Red Hat distribution and on Oracle VM that uses virtlib
> > and primarily through a management gui.  I'm no expert but it uses the XendServer
> > interface, which probably results in a slightly different sequence of calls when
> > creating a domain.
> > 
> > Without the (small) patch, virt-install fails whenever trying to create an hvm domain.
> > 
> > Perhaps Daniel or someone at RedHat can confirm? 
> 
> I've not seen any problems on Xen 3.2 release with creating domains, but have
> not had any time to test the 3.1-testing tree since the 3.1.2 release came out
> 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.

Just re-tested and I can confirm the problem *does* impact Xen 3.2 as well.

Dan
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