Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] 3.1.3 (and ??) timer_mode fix in xend for virt-install

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 09:59:27PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 02:41:53PM -0700, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> > virt-install is a tool on the Red Hat distribution and on Oracle VM that 
> > uses virtlib
> > and primarily through a management gui.  I'm no expert but it uses the 
> > XendServer
> > interface, which probably results in a slightly different sequence of calls 
> > when
> > creating a domain.
> > 
> > Without the (small) patch, virt-install fails whenever trying to create an 
> > hvm domain.
> > 
> > Perhaps Daniel or someone at RedHat can confirm? 
> 
> I've not seen any problems on Xen 3.2 release with creating domains, but have
> not had any time to test the 3.1-testing tree since the 3.1.2 release came out
> so can't confirm that yet. I'll try and reproduce it - what error were you 
> getting
> when trying to create a VM ?  libvirt doesn't specify any timer_mode parameter
> when creating VMs, so it should use whatever XenD's default is for that.

Just re-tested and I can confirm the problem *does* impact Xen 3.2 as well.

Dan
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