Pkg xen devel - May 2008 - A couple of bugs with patches

Hi,

There are a couple of open bugs against Xen-3 with patches which
directly impact my efforts to have Debian Installer work in a Xen guest
domain for Lenny.

?In both cases the relevant fixes are already committed in upstream Xen
and I've been rebuilding and using the Debian packages with them without
problems.

First is #476366 which is a pygrub issue that prevents booting a guest
using pygrub if its partitions were created using a post-Etch mkfs.ext3
(>= 1.40.5-1 according to #463123 which is the equivalent grub bug). I
guess this also impacts people building guest domains with
deboostrap/xen-tools/etc.

The second is #474509 which is a wishlist bug to enable the booting of
bzImage format kernel images. This is required to support d-i in a nice
way since it means we don't need to keep two kernel images in the
debian-installer directory on the mirror and so on. The kernel half of
the patch has already been applied to the 2.6.25 kernels in Sid,
#473645.

Thanks,
Ian.
-- 
Ian Campbell

Heavier than air flying machines are impossible.
		-- Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, c. 1895
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Reposting with a more relevant title. I'd really like to see some
comment on these bugs or else Debian Installer (or the resulting Lenny
domU) is not going to be usable on a Lenny domain 0 which would be a
shame!

Bastian, apologies for CC'ing you against list policy but I wanted to be
sure you saw this since you seem to be the active maintainer.

Thanks,
Ian.

On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 20:42 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There are a couple of open bugs against Xen-3 with patches which
> directly impact my efforts to have Debian Installer work in a Xen guest
> domain for Lenny.
> 
> ?In both cases the relevant fixes are already committed in upstream Xen
> and I've been rebuilding and using the Debian packages with them
without
> problems.
> 
> First is #476366 which is a pygrub issue that prevents booting a guest
> using pygrub if its partitions were created using a post-Etch mkfs.ext3
> (>= 1.40.5-1 according to #463123 which is the equivalent grub bug). I
> guess this also impacts people building guest domains with
> deboostrap/xen-tools/etc.
> 
> The second is #474509 which is a wishlist bug to enable the booting of
> bzImage format kernel images. This is required to support d-i in a nice
> way since it means we don't need to keep two kernel images in the
> debian-installer directory on the mirror and so on. The kernel half of
> the patch has already been applied to the 2.6.25 kernels in Sid,
> #473645.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ian.
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