Andy Smith
2012-Aug-08 13:23 UTC
[Pkg-xen-devel] Boot failure with squeeze 4.0 hypervisor, fixed with later 4.0-testing
Hi, I have a machine that was previously running the lenny-packaged hypervisor. I upgraded it to squeeze recently and it failed to complete a boot of the dom0 kernel. I reported this on xen-devel? and was advised to try building a hypervisor from the tip of 4.0-testing. I did this and this seems to work for me. I'm guessing that since wheezy will be released soon there is little interest in working out why exactly the Debian-packed 4.0 hypervisor for squeeze does not work on this hardware? If there would be some value in this, then I'm in a position at the moment to help do that. Cheers, Andy ? Thread starts here: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-07/msg01663.html
Thomas Goirand
2012-Aug-08 14:18 UTC
[Pkg-xen-devel] Boot failure with squeeze 4.0 hypervisor, fixed with later 4.0-testing
On 08/08/2012 09:23 PM, Andy Smith wrote:> I'm guessing that since wheezy will be released soon there is little > interest in working out why exactly the Debian-packed 4.0 hypervisor > for squeeze does not work on this hardware?Even after the release of Wheezy, there's one year of support for Squeeze. If you can produce a patch, I don't see why it wouldn't reach Squeeze, at least through proposed-updates. The issue is how much time you want to invest yourself in the issue, and how you can motivate / convince current maintainers (eg: mostly Waldi) to work on it. I'd say that unless you search, and find the way to fix yourself, then I don't see why anyone would be interested in your specific issue. But again, if you can produce a working and tested patch, I don't see why it wouldn't be applied... Thomas
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