Xen devel - Feb 2005 - RE: XenCD xm save problem: solved by 2.0.4

> My sincere thanks to Paul Ionescu who pointed out that my 2.0.4 build
> wasn''t actually 2.0.4 but rather xeno-unstable.
> 
> After fixing this build bug and retrying the resulting XenCD inside
> qemu, xm save/restore now works properly!  (Fresh out of the box (no
> strace xfrd), to both hard disks and tmpfs).
> 
> I believe that now every recent report of xm save/restore actually
> works under 2.0.4, while current xen-unstable installations are still
> broken (perhaps in only some cases?)
Save/restore doesn''t work at all in unstable as the tools
haven''t been
updated to cope with multiple VCPUs per domain. It''s on the todo
list...
> Hopefully, this community testing provides the Xen team a more clear
> problem report and points to xm save/restore reversion between 2.0.4
> and current unstable.
Yep, it''s great to have the testing feedback, thanks.

Ian


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[Ian == m+Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk on Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:02:35 -0000]

  >> I believe that now every recent report of xm save/restore
  >> actually works under 2.0.4, while current xen-unstable
  >> installations are still broken (perhaps in only some cases?)

  Ian> Save/restore doesn''t work at all in unstable as the tools
  Ian> haven''t been updated to cope with multiple VCPUs per
  Ian> domain. It''s on the todo list...

Oh my, that tidbit of info would have saved a number of people quite a
few hours of experimentation.  Apologies for all the chatter about an
already known issue.

Thanks.

-- jared@wordzoo.com

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