[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#508139: Bug#508139: HVM guests can't be used because there is no /usr/lib/xen folder

[Bastian Blank]

severity 508139 normal
thanks

Please reread the bts documentation what "grave" means.

On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 04:52:04PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> I tried to start an HVM guest to setup Windows 2003 64 bits entreprise R2, and
> I spent a long time figuring out that there is no /usr/lib/xen folder by
> default, and this is where Xen is searching for it's file when using HVM, VNC
> and all. Doing a simple symlink with ln -s /usr/lib/xen-3.2.1 /usr/lib/xen made
> it working, if it's not present, the VM is stuck and wainting for whatever.

No. It explicitely searches in /usr/lib/xen-bla/{bin,boot}.

> The system MUST be usable as-is, or at least, some things shall be explained
> somewhere to warn the user about it. I had a look into the README.Debian, and
> nothing seemed to talk about this problem.

It is. The shipped config examples shows the correct behavior.
README.Debian don't show it however.

Bastian

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