[xen-tools-discuss] xen-tools 4.3.1 released

[Yuvraj Agarwal]

Hi Alex,

I was able to update to the latest xen-tools from your ppa. When I used the
"--pygrub" option I ran into a minor error in the domU cfg file.

(1) it seems like it set the memory to be
memory      = '64M'

which threw the error:
Error: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '64M'

changing that to:
memory      = '64'

make it work ok.

(2) Even though I changed /etc/xen-tools/xen-tools.conf to include the
following lines:

extension = ""
disk_device = xvda

the domU config file still has a .cfg extension and it also keeps wanting
to use "hda" as the device names rather than the "xvda" that are needed to
start the domU. I can of course edit then, but thought it would be good to
fix these errors or know what I am doing wrong.

Also, the "--pygrub" option did indeed work. One small suggestion. Could
the "--pygrub" role take an optional parameter that speficied what kernel
you wanted the domU to have? e.g. "--pygrub=virtual" could load the
linux-image-virtual, while "--pygrub=server" could load the
linux-image-server into the domU. I edited the file by hand. the
Linux-image-virtual is much leaner than the standard *server
kernel+modules.

thanks
Yuvraj



On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Axel Beckert <abe at deuxchevaux.org> wrote:

> Hi Yuvraj,
>
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 10:27:36AM -0700, Yuvraj Agarwal wrote:
> > I was able to install the latest 4.3.1 release on a Ubuntu 12.04 (64bit)
> > dom0. I'll check and make sure everything works and report back if it
> does
> > not.
>
> Great, thanks!
>
> > One question. Was there a plan to release a pygrub role at any point
> > (in /etc/xen-tools/role.d/) as part of the regular xen-tools
> > package?
>
> Not yet. There's the --pygrub option to xen-create-image (which is
> implicit for DomUs of some distributions, e.g. newer Ubuntu releases).
>
> > The pygrub role is to install one of the linux-virtual or
> > ec2 based kernels in a domU/guest VM rather than use the dom0
> > kernels themselves.
>
> That's what the --pygrub option should do.
>
>                 Kind regards, Axel
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