[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#536176: Bug#536176: xen-utils-3.4: trying xen-3.4 once breaks xen-3.2 (?)

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 01:42:40PM +0200, Csillag Kristof wrote:
> Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > What do you mean with HVM support is disabled? Xen 3.4.0 definitely supports
> > HVM guests.
> >   
> Xen does, but the current debian package does not seem to.
> 
> The changelog says so:
> 
> xen-3 (3.4.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
>           [...]
>        * Remove ioemu for now. (closes: #490409, #496367)
>            [...]
> 
> ...and if I try to create a HVM guest:
> 
> in /var/log/xen/qemu-dm-<domain_name>:
> 
> ---
> failed to set up fds or execute dm /usr/lib/xen-3.4/bin/qemu-dm:
> ['OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory\n']
> ----
> 
> and indeed, /usr/lib/xen-3.4/bin/qemu-dm is missing.
> 
> (The same binary exists in the xen-utils-3.2 package)
> 
>      * * *
> 
> So, it seems to me that HVM support is disabled in the current package.
> 
> FWIW, I consider the fact that this information is hidden in the changelog
> a bug. (Therefore I created #536175 ), but this is a separate issue.
> <mailto:536175 at bugs.debian.org>
> 

Uhm, that's really weird. What was the reason for disabling Xen HVM support?
It's removing half of the Xen functionality in Debian.. 

-- Pasi