Hi all, Just a quick suggestion for anyone who might be looking for a small tools hacking project (could perhaps be a good introduction for somebody wanting to get involved...) We often get questions of the form: "My domain doesn''t start, here''s the boot output and the config file". Often it''s possible to see just from the config file where they are going wrong. It''d be nice to have an xm config file "lint" that could pick common-case problems out automatically. Such problems include: * "root =" line does not match the disks export line (i.e. telling the guest to boot off a block device that you''re not exporting to it) * Specifying an LVM volume as a *target* device for a block export (e.g. disks = [''phy:/dev/vg/weirdolvmvolume,vg/weirdolvmvolume,w'']. We should only be targetting xd*, sd* or hd*. Other things that could be checked later: * elimentary mistakes in the kernel command line * dodgy network configuration * suggest corrections to syntax errors This sort of tool would ideally be integrated into "xm create" to issue non-fatal warnings about potential problems. It''ll cut out a load of beginner requests on the lists and smooth off the learning curve a bit more. Thoughts? Volunteers? Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel