From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?U3ZlbiBLw7ZobGVy?= Subject: Re: Re: xl vs. xm, possible bug in xl Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:43:30 +0200 Message-ID: <4E6A09F2.4040405@gmail.com> References: <20110908170755.GB16730@dumpdata.com> <4E69F80A.5060905@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0589543495==" Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Stefano Stabellini Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --===============0589543495== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigDCBC8482E67F6FEFDDE6E96D" This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigDCBC8482E67F6FEFDDE6E96D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 09.09.2011 14:05, schrieb Stefano Stabellini: > On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Sven K=C3=B6hler wrote: >> Am 09.09.2011 13:27, schrieb Stefano Stabellini: >>>> Any clue, that the second problem is about? >>>>> # xl create /etc/xen/xen-sk1 >>>>> Parsing config file /etc/xen/xen-sk1 >>>>> libxl: error: libxl_device.c:476:libxl__wait_for_device_model Devic= e Model not ready >>>>> xl: fatal error: libxl_create.c:535, rc=3D-1: libxl__confirm_device= _model_startup >>> >>> That means that qemu failed to start. Could you please cat >>> /var/log/xen/qemu-dm-domainname.log? >> >> There is no such file (my domain config lacks a name=3D"something" lin= e). >> However qemu-dm-test.log does exist and is of recent date, and it says= >> that qemu cannot be started. This is very plausible, since qemu is not= >> even installed. This machine is supposed to start paravirt guests only= =2E >> And xen has been compiled without support for hvm guests. (Not sure >> right now, what the gentoo people do to disable support support for hv= m >> guests). >> >> Does my config file for the domain (see one of my previous emails in >> this thread) indicate, that the machine is a hvm domain? How can I tel= l >> xl that this a paravirt domain, and qemu is not needed and should not = be >> used? >=20 > I think I have found the issue: if blktap2 is not enabled xl is going t= o > start qemu (to provide a disk backend) even if it is not actually neede= d > because the user wants to use blkback. >=20 > We have a patch upstream to fix this issue but it hasn't been backporte= d > to 4.1: Thanks, sounds like this will fix my problem. Is there any chance that this is going to be in 4.1.2 final? Regards, Sven --------------enigDCBC8482E67F6FEFDDE6E96D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk5qCfMACgkQ7Ww7FjRBE4C0PQCfd1+9FLmYP3POAXMkb3N0uZoi ZCMAn3e8XkNKW9ZA1SeH+qzrA0/XFOo6 =6Uo8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigDCBC8482E67F6FEFDDE6E96D-- --===============0589543495== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel --===============0589543495==--