From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: Incomplete 3.2 binary packages Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:38:06 +0000 Message-ID: <20080227153806.GD13508@redhat.com> References: <47C5778A.9080806@redhat.com> <18373.33329.84179.789549@mariner.uk.xensource.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <18373.33329.84179.789549@mariner.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Ian Jackson Cc: Chris Lalancette , xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 03:30:57PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > Chris Lalancette writes ("[Xen-devel] Incomplete 3.2 binary > > packages"): I went to: http://xen.org/download/dl_32rhel5.html and > > downloaded the binary RPMS for 3.2 to do a quick test. However, it > > seems that the binary RPMS don't include the qemu device model, so > > fully virt guests have no chance of starting. It's not a huge deal > > for me, since I can recompile from source; however, for those who > > don't want to do that, or who want to save a little time (my > > original goal), it might be nice to include everything needed in > > those binary RPMS. Just FYI. > > xen-3.2.0-0xs.centos5.i386.rpm contains /usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm. > > When I built the Xen 3.2 binary packages I did check that they > contained roughly the same things in the same places as the upstream > packages, but in general my (very light) testing did not include > starting an HVM guest. So there may well be a bug here. > > Can you confirm that qemu-dm is on your system ? If not do you know > why not ? If you have some more information (for example, actual > error messages which show where it is looking for which file) I might > be able to fix it up if indeed it's a bug in the package. WRT to libvirt starting guests, there was a bug in 3.2.0 which prevented any HVM guest starting - the timer_mode bug - you need this fix otherwise it simply won't work changeset: 16764:3f26758bcc02 user: Keir Fraser date: Fri Jan 18 22:27:51 2008 +0000 files: tools/python/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py description: xend: Handle unspecified timer_mode domain platform parameter. Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|