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Hi all, Thanks for sending this update Hans. I too am interested in helping out with xen packaging. I am trying to dig into the dpkg-shlibdeps issues - I built it successfully on one box but haven?t been able to reproduce. Either way, I will plan to hang around in IRC to help where I can. Stephen > On Jan 9, 2018, at 4:05 PM, Hans van Kranenburg <hans at knorrie.org> wrote: >

Hi Ian, after our conversation on IRC in #debian-xen today, I updated the packaging to the latest 4.10-stable commit (since there's no 4.10.1 release yet) and smoke-tested the package on a testing/unstable dom0 running a PVHv2 guest. Can you please review and sponsor the upload of a first Xen 4.10 package to Debian unstable? The work which has been done to arrive at this point from the

Knorrie and I just discussed our plans for sid and buster, on the phone. Here's my notes of the discussion. Plan is to upload Knorrie's 4.11 packages to experimental, to make them more public, while we fix the bugs in them. There's a list of Salsa issues and the BTS bugs list. This duplication is not ideal. We agreed that new things should go to the BTS. For now we'll keep

I have now finished totally rewriting the Xen package in Debian, from scratch. Amazingly as soon as I got a package which was lintian-clean and would install, it worked first time ! I have generated 18 patches to go upstream which I have sent to xen-devel. There are two more, xenstore ABI patches, which need a bit of tidying up. There is still room for improvement but it is now clearly ready

This is awesome! What needs to be done before this can make it to unstable? I’d love to help if there’s anything I can do. Stephen On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 8:00 PM Hans van Kranenburg <hans at knorrie.org> wrote: > On 10/05/2018 08:04 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I have now finished totally rewriting the Xen package in Debian, from > > scratch. Amazingly as soon as I got a

Hi Ian, can you please review and sponsor the upload of a first Xen 4.10 package to experimental? The work which has been done to arrive at this point from the previous 4.8 packages is visible at: https://salsa.debian.org/xen-team/debian-xen/commits/master The only commit which is not in master yet is the actual package release:

On 1/6/19 11:21 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 10:51:13PM +0100, Hans van Kranenburg wrote: >> On 1/5/19 8:04 PM, Colin Watson wrote: >>> I think I'm OK with cherry-picking the relevant patch stack. Presumably >>> this would need to be in new grub-xen-pvh-bin / grub-xen-pvh binary >>> packages, as is usual for separate platform builds?

Summary: I have tried the packaging-only repo and I really don't like it at all. I don't know how anyone copes with this - such hard work! IMO we should switch to git-debrebase. (As an alternative, if you don't trust git-debrebase because it's my own tool, gbp pq would be better, too, even though it's not as good as git-debrebase.) Particularly, now that we have more people

Package: xen-hypervisor-3.2-1-amd64 Version: 3.2.1-2 Severity: important I've a Debian Lenny AMD64 as production server, where it has important HVMs that runs correctly. The problem occurs when i try to create a HVM from a Debian Squeeze AMD64 iso file. At first, the VNC display specified shows perfectly the Debian Installer menu, but when I choose an option (Install or Graphical Install),

I'm just dumping all I got in here, after initial feedback we can see how to organize todo's around it. tl;dr: * Does not upgrade cleanly from 4.8 packages, so we have to prevent this from entering testing until we fix that. * Live migration is broken, explodes with memory allocation errors. ---- >8 ---- 1. Build packages * I have built salsa/master using pbuilder targeting sid.

Hi, On 02/22/2018 01:03 AM, John Keates wrote: > > First of all, thanks for the great work! I was wondering about a patch I tried to send in a while ago which enables OVMF. It?s a single line in the rules setup and doesn?t have any build-time or run-time dependencies until you actually change a domU configuration to use OVMF. > > Currently I just rebuild all packages locally and add

On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 08:44:50AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 01:58:19AM +0100, Hans van Kranenburg wrote: > > Ok great. Since I'm not using (and probably not going to use) the > > multi-stage multiboot things, this is harder for me to help with. > > With any luck I should be able to work that bit out myself, since I > think stable's Xen

Package: xen-utils-common Version: 4.4.1-9+deb8u1 Severity: normal With SE Linux it's desirable to give utilities and daemons the minimum privileges. That includes not permitting general utilities to create directories under /var/run. I think it would be best if /var/run/xen-hotplug was created by an init script such as /etc/init.d/xen (or by systemd-tmpfiles when using systemd units).

Package: xen-hypervisor-4.4-amd64 Version: 4.4.1-9+deb8u1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Dear Maintainer, -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8,

Package: xen-utils-3.2-1 Version: 3.2.1-2 Severity: normal When a DomU is defined as using a file: device the loopback driver will be used to make it appear to be a regular block device. The loopback driver will by default only support 8 nodes so this is a limited resource. http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/10/22/kernel-issues-with-debian-xen-and-centos-kernels/ If there is a problem that prevents

Hans van Kranenburg writes ("Re: [PATCH 08/13] xen init script: rewrite xenstored start logic"): > So the question we should answer first is: What do we allow the user to > set as value? /bin/bash? And how should the init script deal with that? If they specify an absolute path, it should be used. Eg, /home/alice/Xen/xen/tools/xenstore/xenstore If the user specifies /bin/bash

Package: xen-utils-4.1 Version: 4.1.4-3+deb7u4 Severity: serious Tags: patch dom0 running wheezy domU upgraded from wheezy to jessie. The domU doesn't boot any more, errors: Error code: Using <class 'grub.GrubConf.Grub2ConfigFile'> to parse /grub/grub.cfg Error parameters: Traceback (most recent call last):, File "/usr/lib/xcp/lib/pygrub.xcp", line 853, in

Package: xen-hypervisor-4.4-amd64 Version: 4.4.1-9+deb8u4 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I installed a fresh Debian Jessie amd64 on our new server with Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5 Skylake CPU and EFI. Linux without Xen boots flawlessly and shows 8 CPU cores. I then tried all combinations of Xen 4.4 (with xsave=off for Skylake support), Xen 4.6 (crashes after a few seconds during boot) and

Package: xen-system-amd64 Version: 4.6.0-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, I installed fresh from ALPHA5, no UEFI, with two disks. Each disk got a partition for /boot and one for /, joined each by RAID 1. Then I just installed "xen-system-amd64", nothing more. After rebooting, selecting on grub to boot XEN, it hangs on mdadm: no devices

Package: xen-utils-3.2-1 Version: 3.2.1-2 Severity: normal Under this Xen setup, (Linux) HVM guests fail to have network active when running with *routed* networking, as some hosting providers require (in my case, OVH). In this scenario: * the host is a described below * the guest runs as HVM. * the guest runs exclusively with ioemu; virtual network drivers are not available (vanilla lenny