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

[Thomas Goirand]

Bastian Blank wrote:
> severity 508139 normal
> thanks
> 
> Please reread the bts documentation what "grave" means.

Grave means that this bug prevent the package from working (this is
truth) and other package from using it (also truth). And I really want
this bug to be a RC bug, it deserves it. You have a bad tendency to
lower the importance of what I submit, I do not agree with that kind of
way of doing things (sorry). I really don't want to spend my time in a
war, raising RC bugs when you lower them (I guess you would also feel
that I'm a big c**t doing so...), this would be silly, but please
consider that the fact you think it's a less important bug FOR YOU
doesn't mean it's the same for others.

Here's my config file. Note the /usr/lib/xen-3.2-1 that should also have
worked with /usr/lib/xen and that doesn't by default. But this bug is
NOT RELATED anyway, even with the correct full path (it could be only
"hvmload" and not a full path too...) starting a HVM guest doesn't work.
Well, it's started, but it's stuck, and never eats some CPU seconds.

kernel = "/usr/lib/xen-3.2-1/boot/hvmloader"
builder = 'hvm'
device_model = '/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
memory = 512
name = "xen02"
vcpus=1
#pae=0
#acpi=0
#apic=1
vif = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=eth0, ip=66.251.193.87' ]

disk=[
'phy:/dev/mapper/node0116vg0-xen02,ioemu:hda,w','file:/usr/src/en_win_srv_2003_r2_enterprise_x64_with_sp2_cd1_X13-06188.iso,hdc:cdrom,r','file:/usr/src/en_win_srv_2003_r2_enterprise_x64_with_sp2_cd2_X13-68588.iso,hdd:cdrom,r'
]

# This asks to bind VNC to port 5900 + 21 (eg: 5921) with password XXXX
vfb = [ "type=vnc,vncdisplay=21,vncpasswd=th3p4ss9" ]

device_model='/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
cdrom="/usr/src/en_win_srv_2003_r2_enterprise_x64_with_sp2_cd1_X13-06188.iso"
# c for hdd, d for cdrom
boot="d"
nographic=0
vnc=1
#vncviewer=1
stdvga=1
serial='pty'

By default, this simply doesn't work...

>> 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}.

YOU WISH! I am afraid that it does work for a PV guest, NOT for a HVM
guest, you should try yourself...

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

root at GPLHost:node0116>_ /usr/share/doc/xen-utils-3.2-1# ls
changelog.Debian.gz  copyright  NEWS.gz  README.Debian.gz

I don't see any example folder there...

Another thing I didn't report, I'm not sure if you are also the
maintainer: xen-utils-common does NOT create the /etc/xen/auto folder,
why? IMHO, it should...

Thomas