[Pkg-xen-devel] Several xen problems in Debian Etch

[Bastian Blank]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 01:10:01AM +0100, Christian Schneider wrote:
> before I flood the bug tracking system, I just want to send you a list 
> of problems I encountered when using xen under Debian Etch (i386 on 
> Intel Core2 Duo E6750). Shall I open a seperate bug report for each of 
> the items below or are some of them features that are known to be 
> missing in the xen release?

Many bugs are fixed in unstable. None of the bugs looks serious enough
to make an update in stable.

> - A "shutdown" of a HVM Windows XP domU results in a "destroy". This
>   may not be a real xen, but a Windows problem, though a workaround or
>   at least a warning in xen's documentation (man page, xm help, or
>   something like that) would be great.

The default behaviour is "destroy".

> - Saving of a HVM domU does not work either:
>   # xm save 5 foobar
>   Error: /usr/lib/xen-3.0.3-1/bin/xc_save 17 5 0 0 0 failed
>   Usage: xm save <Domain> <CheckpointFile>
>   Save a domain state to restore later.

Not supported in 3.0.3.

> - When running "man xm" I always get these messages in less:
>   /tmp/zmankxWh5l:643: warning: can't find numbered character 160
>   /tmp/zmankxWh5l:651: warning: can't find numbered character 160
>   /tmp/zmankxWh5l:652: warning: can't find numbered character 160
>   [...]

Currently not included.

> - The documentation is absolutly incomplete. For example, a lot of
>   parameters in the xmdomain.cfg man page are not mentioned (no other
>   builders than "linux" mentioned, the "ip" parameter for vifs is not
>   mentioned, etc.). As a second example, I did not find any hint on how
>   to hide PCI devices in man pages or documentation (the documentation
>   on the xen website seems to be for a newer release!?). Using a hidden
>   USB hub from a HVM (Windows XP) domU did not work. There should be a
>   list of features mentioning if it works with HVM or not.

The documentation is user.pdf in xen-doc-*.

> - The kernel modules for all sound cards that can be emulated by xen are
>   missing in the xen kernel package (at least neither I nor alsaconf can
>   find them in a "linux" domU).

There is no emulated soundcard for paravirtualized guests.


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