Re: Bug#606719: "Normal" kernel being before the Xen hypervisor in Squeeze

Re: Bug#606719: "Normal" kernel being before the Xen hypervisor in Squeeze

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:48:56AM +0100, Thomas Schmidt wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 12.12.2010, 14:18 +0800 schrieb Thomas Goirand:
> > For me, it's a grave regression that can put a production environment
> > into big troubles, and it would deserved a RC for me, but because:
> > - of Julien's opinion
> > - that the RT should have the final word
> > - that I respect this view
> > - that delaying Squeeze just for this might not be a good idea
> > - not everyone really cares much about Xen in Debian
> > 
> > ... then I sent my report as a wishlist as requested.
> 
> I also agree that this needs to be resolved before the release and in my
> opinion this bugs severity should be at least important, if not critical
> because it will "break" Xen dom0 functionality of existing systems when
> they are upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze.
> 
> Of course this could be "fixed" by the user of the package by selecting
> an appropriate GRUB_DEFAULT value, but this is likely to break if new
> kernel versions are installed.
> 
> The appropriate fix is very simple, just rename /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen
> to /etc/grub.d/09_linux_xen or some other number in the range of 06-09.

I'd prefer this to be decided upstream.  What do people on grub-devel
think?  It does make some sense that the default should be to use Xen if
it's present, IMO.

(See http://bugs.debian.org/606719 for the full history of this bug.)

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]

Re: Bug#606719: "Normal" kernel being before the Xen hypervisor in Squeeze

[Łukasz Oleś]

Hello,

On Sunday 19 December 2010 12:47:15 Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:48:56AM +0100, Thomas Schmidt wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, den 12.12.2010, 14:18 +0800 schrieb Thomas Goirand:
> > > For me, it's a grave regression that can put a production environment
> > > into big troubles, and it would deserved a RC for me, but because:
> > > - of Julien's opinion
> > > - that the RT should have the final word
> > > - that I respect this view
> > > - that delaying Squeeze just for this might not be a good idea
> > > - not everyone really cares much about Xen in Debian
> > > 
> > > ... then I sent my report as a wishlist as requested.
> > 
> > I also agree that this needs to be resolved before the release and in my
> > opinion this bugs severity should be at least important, if not critical
> > because it will "break" Xen dom0 functionality of existing systems when
> > they are upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze.
> > 
> > Of course this could be "fixed" by the user of the package by selecting
> > an appropriate GRUB_DEFAULT value, but this is likely to break if new
> > kernel versions are installed.
> > 
> > The appropriate fix is very simple, just rename /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen
> > to /etc/grub.d/09_linux_xen or some other number in the range of 06-09.
> 
> I'd prefer this to be decided upstream.  What do people on grub-devel
> think?  It does make some sense that the default should be to use Xen if
> it's present, IMO.
> 
> (See http://bugs.debian.org/606719 for the full history of this bug.)

Any update on this? I have also run into this issue

Regards,

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Łukasz Oleś