[Pkg-xen-devel] Ubuntu delta against 4.5.0-1 in experimental for disussion

[Ian Campbell]

On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 13:02 +0100, Stefan Bader wrote:
> That one modifies xen-init-list to look at domains managed by the xl namespace.
> This additionally works around a bug in xl which will report a syntax error when
> "xl list -l" is called while domains in a different namespace exist. Which is
> the case when libvirt is used to start them.

FWIW in 4.5 xl is supposed to be more tolerant of domains started by
another toolstack (so long as they are using the libxl framework). In
particular I think "xl list -l" is supposed to cope with libvirt domains
now.

> diff -Nru xen-4.5.0/debian/xen-utils-common.xen.init
> xen-4.5.0/debian/xen-utils-common.xen.init
> --- xen-4.5.0/debian/xen-utils-common.xen.init	2015-01-20 19:29:03.000000000 +0100
> +++ xen-4.5.0/debian/xen-utils-common.xen.init	2015-01-22 12:16:25.000000000 +0100
> @@ -37,6 +37,9 @@
>  XENCONSOLED_PIDFILE="/var/run/xenconsoled.pid"
>  XENSTORED="$ROOT"/bin/xenstored
>  XENSTORED_PIDFILE="/var/run/xenstore.pid"
> +QEMU=/usr/bin/qemu-system-i386
> +QEMU_PIDFILE="/var/run/qemu-dom0.pid"
> +QEMU_ARGS="-xen-domid 0 -xen-attach -name dom0 -nographic -M xenpv -daemonize
> -monitor /dev/null -serial /dev/null -parallel /dev/null"

I think all this is #770456, feature/bug770456 branch in the packaging
xen.git. TBH I think this really ought to be fixed for Jessie.

Ian.