[Fedora-xen] Re: [fedora-virt] virt-install (and virt-manager) unsupported virtualization type 'xen' with pv_ops dom0 on Fedora 10

Pasi Kärkkäinen pasik at iki.fi
Mon Mar 9 12:24:04 UTC 2009


On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 10:39:29AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 09:23:10PM +0200, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 09:37:25PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > > On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 02:28:52PM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
> > > > >> [root at dom0test ~]# cat /sys/hypervisor/properties/capabilities
> > > > >> cat: /sys/hypervisor/properties/capabilities: No such file or directory
> > > > >>
> > > > > 
> > > > > [root at dom0test ~]# ls -la /sys/hypervisor
> > > > > ls: cannot access /sys/hypervisor: No such file or directory
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Hmm, well that will do it. Libvirt capabilities are what tell user apps
> > > > what types of domains can be installed, and generating xen capabilities
> > > > is largely dependent on the above paths. Not too sure what to do from here.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Ok.
> > > 
> > > I'll try asking what's the thing with that.. if it's still missing, or is it
> > > deprecated or something..
> > > 
> > 
> > Ok, it seems that /sys/hypervisor feature is not yet implemented in pv_ops
> > dom0 kernel.
> > 
> > There's a patch somewhere in Redhat's old dom0 repository.. Jeremy is trying
> > to find that. 
> 
> 
> If this patch gets rejected for whatever reason, let me know, becasue we
> can possibly switch libvirt over to making a direct hypercall to fetch
> this information.
> 

Yep. I will.

The patch seems to be here:
http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=linux-2.6-dom0-pvops.git;a=commit;h=7aa79a5603bb604e8bf4fe7c31cc9c8b3d3b7ea2

-- Pasi




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