Re: OT: xen libvirt issue

[AL13N <alien@rmail.be>]

Op maandag 8 april 2013 06:22:49 schreef Marek Marczykowski:
> On 05.04.2013 13:13, George Dunlap wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Dario Faggioli
> > 
> > <dario.faggioli@citrix.com> wrote:
> >> On gio, 2013-04-04 at 21:49 +0200, AL13N wrote:
> >>> i realise this is completely off-topic, but if someone on this list has
> >>> some knowledge on this, see:
> >>> 
> >>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-April/msg00189.html
> >>> 
> >>> the issue is that shutting down xen domains, segfaults libvirtd... which
> >>> is
> >>> annoying
> >> 
> >> I don't have any clue on this... But, perhaps, Jim does (Cc-ing him)?
> > 
> > The e-mail that AL13N linked to was actually from Jim, saying he would
> > be really busy for a while and unable to look at it.
> > 
> > The question isn't off-topic, as libxl and xend have to work closely
> > with libvirt.  Unfortunately, I don't think any of the active
> > developers on this list has much familiarity with libvirt.  It Would
> > Be Good if someone could step up and learn, but with our feature
> > freeze next week, we're also kind of heads-down getting stuff
> > implemented...
> 
> I believe it is already fixed in unstable by this commit:
> 5f5ef65babc2ca15f43b775c4b47b0102fa2a632 "libxl: fix stale timeout event
> callback race"
> 
> Sadly backport to 4.2 isn't trivial.

Looking at the patch i totally agree that it isn't trivial...

i'll hold off for now. and will work more towards libvirt integration for 
Mageia 4 (our release freeze is now in effect for Mageia 3).

thanks for all the help!