On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 10:40:17AM +1300, Paul Dorman wrote:
> And then there's the linux-2.6-xen.hg no PTYs problem I've asked about
> previously. Selecting Xen subarchitecture nukes 90% of the device
> drivers section. Consequently I can't get a shell running on 2.6.14 domu
> machines. I've asked about this before but no-one seems to have an
> answer for me.
>
Was this issue resolved?
I'm seeing the same problem with linux-2.6-xen.hg ..
- Pasi Kärkkäinen
> Paul
>
> On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 21:32 +0000, Ian Pratt wrote:
> > Do you have 2.6.14? You could build based on linux-2.6-xen.hg, but this
> > hasn't has s much testing (we know of at least on issue on x86_64)
> >
> > > 2) vif-route.sh is buggy; it doesn't handle the case where
> > > multiple adapters
> > > exist. So, dom0_ip(and the functions it calls) ends up
> > > returning 2 ip
> > > addresses, which makes ifconfig complain.
> > >
> > > I've got a fix hot-patched on our deployed server, I'll be
> > > sending that
> > > soon.
> >
> > Please post it, thanks.
> >
> > > 3) It appeared that when I tried the final 3.0.0 release,
> > > that xenstored was
> > > very sick. I had a previous(20051116 snapshot) installed,
> > > and the tdb file
> > > was corrupted(sorta). xenstore-list / shows to local
> > > paths, but no vm nor
> > > tools. Removing the file 'fixed' this. I'm not certain
> > > exactly what
> > > happend, tho.
> >
> > It's possible that the install scripts should delete the database when
> > performing an upgrade. I don't think there have been any format changes
> > in a while, though.
> >
> > > 5) I see it's not possible to have both a xen microkernel
> > > that supports both
> > > pae and non-pae. For individuals who are compiling
> > > themselves, that's
> > > fine; they can select which they want.
> >
> > Yep, no real way round that. Most users are already trained to this
> > thanks to it being a compile time option in Linux.
> >
> > > Also, what other options are available, that would require multiple
> > > compiles? Also, I don't see a concise list of what config
> > > options I can
> > > tweak for xen itself; the documentation is a bit poor in
> > > that regard(pae
> > > isn't even mentioned in the documentation; you have to
> > > read a separate
> > > README).
> >
> > Having a debug/verbose build of xen is sometimes handy for debugging
> > things, but since debug builds are deliberatly combatitive its probably
> > not a good idea for production.
> >
> > Ian
> >
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