Re: [Libvir] what is virt-install doing differently?

[Aron Griffis <aron hp com>]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:  [Wed Jan 31 2007, 03:40:38PM EST]
> Notice that the '(vcpus 3)' bit is duplicated twice in the SEXPR that
> xm sends - once at top level and once within (image). It looks like
> when creating HVM guests you need both set to get it to work correctly.
> Frankly this is utterly insane - XenD should simply copy the top level
> value for vcpus into the (image) block as needed.
> 
> Since we need compatability with all Xen 3.0.x series codebases, it looks 
> like we'll need to do a tiny bit of magic in libvirt to also send the 
> vcpus stuff twice for HVM. Urgh :-(

Ugly, I agree, but I'm glad you found it...

Send me a version to test if you'd like.  I'm updating the RHEL5 BZ to
reference this conversation, hopefully we can still get a fix in
there.

Regards,
Aron