7:17 a.m.
I would like to update the xen version on rawhide and probably also Fedora
18 to xen 4.2.0 , however libvirt links against some xen libraries whose
versions have changed in xen 4.2 and when I looked a few months ago it
seemed that libvirt didn't support the newer library versions.
Does anyone know what the current support status of libvirt for xen 4.2
is, and what work might be going on (if necessary) to add it?
Michael Young
12:27 p.m.
On 09/17/2012 08:17 AM, M A Young wrote:
I would like to update the xen version on rawhide and probably also
Fedora 18
to xen 4.2.0 , however libvirt links against some xen libraries whose versions
have changed in xen 4.2 and when I looked a few months ago it seemed that
libvirt didn't support the newer library versions.
Does anyone know what the current support status of libvirt for xen 4.2 is,
and what work might be going on (if necessary) to add it?
libvirt.git has a few xen 4.2 fixes:
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=416eca189b1934cfa8575ab7...
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=371ddc98664cbbd8542593e5...
I'll be pushing libvirt F18 and rawhide updates this week which will contain
those patches. I'll reply here when they go out.
Thanks,
Cole
2:26 p.m.
On 10/21/2012 01:27 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
On 09/17/2012 08:17 AM, M A Young wrote:
> I would like to update the xen version on rawhide and probably also Fedora 18
> to xen 4.2.0 , however libvirt links against some xen libraries whose versions
> have changed in xen 4.2 and when I looked a few months ago it seemed that
> libvirt didn't support the newer library versions.
>
> Does anyone know what the current support status of libvirt for xen 4.2 is,
> and what work might be going on (if necessary) to add it?
>
libvirt.git has a few xen 4.2 fixes:
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=416eca189b1934cfa8575ab7...
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=371ddc98664cbbd8542593e5...
I'll be pushing libvirt F18 and rawhide updates this week which will contain
those patches. I'll reply here when they go out.
...or would it be best for you to push xen 4.2, override the buildroot, then I
push libvirt? If that's so I can ping here when the libvirt 0.10.2 stable
release is out which should be early this week.
- Cole
5:17 p.m.
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012, Cole Robinson wrote:
On 09/17/2012 08:17 AM, M A Young wrote:
> I would like to update the xen version on rawhide and probably also Fedora 18
> to xen 4.2.0 , however libvirt links against some xen libraries whose versions
> have changed in xen 4.2 and when I looked a few months ago it seemed that
> libvirt didn't support the newer library versions.
>
> Does anyone know what the current support status of libvirt for xen 4.2 is,
> and what work might be going on (if necessary) to add it?
>
libvirt.git has a few xen 4.2 fixes:
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=416eca189b1934cfa8575ab7...
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=371ddc98664cbbd8542593e5...
I'll be pushing libvirt F18 and rawhide updates this week which will contain
those patches. I'll reply here when they go out.
From what I can tell, those patches are only a partial fix. They allow
libvirt to build against the older xen interface (via xend) but not
against the newer libxl interface, so at the moment you would have to
disable the libxl driver to get libvirt to build against 4.2.
Do you know if the libxl interface is used at the moment? If it is I think
we probably ought to stick with xen 4.1 in Fedora 18 unless we know the
libxl fixes are coming soon, though it may be worth updating rawhide to
xen 4.2.
Incidentally I don't think the older xen interface has changed
significantly between xen 4.1 and xen 4.2, so I expect libvirt compiled
against xen 4.1 will still work against xen 4.2.
Michael Young
4:06 p.m.
On 10/21/2012 06:17 PM, M A Young wrote:
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 09/17/2012 08:17 AM, M A Young wrote:
>> I would like to update the xen version on rawhide and probably also Fedora 18
>> to xen 4.2.0 , however libvirt links against some xen libraries whose versions
>> have changed in xen 4.2 and when I looked a few months ago it seemed that
>> libvirt didn't support the newer library versions.
>>
>> Does anyone know what the current support status of libvirt for xen 4.2 is,
>> and what work might be going on (if necessary) to add it?
>>
>
> libvirt.git has a few xen 4.2 fixes:
>
>
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=416eca189b1934cfa8575ab7...
>
>
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=371ddc98664cbbd8542593e5...
>
>
> I'll be pushing libvirt F18 and rawhide updates this week which will contain
> those patches. I'll reply here when they go out.
From what I can tell, those patches are only a partial fix. They allow libvirt
to build against the older xen interface (via xend) but not against the newer
libxl interface, so at the moment you would have to disable the libxl driver
to get libvirt to build against 4.2.
Do you know if the libxl interface is used at the moment? If it is I think we
probably ought to stick with xen 4.1 in Fedora 18 unless we know the libxl
fixes are coming soon, though it may be worth updating rawhide to xen 4.2.
I don't think the libxl driver gets much use, and it's trivial to turn off the
libxl bits in the libvirt spec. I'd say do the rawhide build, I'll rebuild
libvirt, and if there's no packaging hiccups feel free to push things to F18.
- Cole
7:32 p.m.
On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Cole Robinson wrote:
I don't think the libxl driver gets much use, and it's
trivial to turn off the
libxl bits in the libvirt spec. I'd say do the rawhide build, I'll rebuild
libvirt, and if there's no packaging hiccups feel free to push things to F18.
Okay, I have built xen 4.2 on rawhide.
Michael Young
5:02 p.m.
On 10/24/2012 08:32 PM, M A Young wrote:
On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Cole Robinson wrote:
> I don't think the libxl driver gets much use, and it's trivial to turn off
the
> libxl bits in the libvirt spec. I'd say do the rawhide build, I'll rebuild
> libvirt, and if there's no packaging hiccups feel free to push things to F18.
Okay, I have built xen 4.2 on rawhide.
Michael Young
Thanks Michael, I've pushed a new libvirt build to rawhide.
- Cole
5:47 p.m.
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Cole Robinson wrote:
On 10/24/2012 08:32 PM, M A Young wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Cole Robinson wrote:
>
>> I don't think the libxl driver gets much use, and it's trivial to turn
off the
>> libxl bits in the libvirt spec. I'd say do the rawhide build, I'll
rebuild
>> libvirt, and if there's no packaging hiccups feel free to push things to
F18.
>
> Okay, I have built xen 4.2 on rawhide.
>
> Michael Young
Thanks Michael, I've pushed a new libvirt build to rawhide.
Thanks for that. I think I will leave it a few days in case any problems
emerge, then update F18 to 4.2 early next week, if that is okay for you.
Michael Young
6 p.m.
On 10/25/2012 06:47 PM, M A Young wrote:
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 10/24/2012 08:32 PM, M A Young wrote:
>> On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Cole Robinson wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think the libxl driver gets much use, and it's trivial to
turn off
>>> the
>>> libxl bits in the libvirt spec. I'd say do the rawhide build, I'll
rebuild
>>> libvirt, and if there's no packaging hiccups feel free to push things to
F18.
>>
>> Okay, I have built xen 4.2 on rawhide.
>>
>> Michael Young
>
> Thanks Michael, I've pushed a new libvirt build to rawhide.
Thanks for that. I think I will leave it a few days in case any problems
emerge, then update F18 to 4.2 early next week, if that is okay for you.
I just pushed an F18 libvirt update that disables the libxl driver, so feel
free to push xen 4.2 whenever works for you.
Thanks,
Cole
6:14 a.m.
On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 23:47 +0100, M A Young wrote:
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Cole Robinson wrote:
> Thanks Michael, I've pushed a new libvirt build to rawhide.
Thanks for that. I think I will leave it a few days in case any problems
emerge, then update F18 to 4.2 early next week, if that is okay for you.
Ok, so here's what I'm getting this morning, when 'yum update'
tries to
update Xen on my Fedora 18 beta to 4.2:
# sudo yum update
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package xen.x86_64 0:4.1.3-4.fc18 will be updated
---> Package xen.x86_64 0:4.2.0-3.fc18 will be an update
---> Package xen-hypervisor.x86_64 0:4.1.3-4.fc18 will be updated
---> Package xen-hypervisor.x86_64 0:4.2.0-3.fc18 will be an update
---> Package xen-libs.x86_64 0:4.1.3-4.fc18 will be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libxenctrl.so.4.0()(64bit) for package:
libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-0.10.2.1-1.fc18.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libxenguest.so.4.0()(64bit) for package:
libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-0.10.2.1-1.fc18.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libxenlight.so.1.0()(64bit) for package:
libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-0.10.2.1-1.fc18.x86_64
---> Package xen-libs.x86_64 0:4.2.0-3.fc18 will be an update
---> Package xen-licenses.x86_64 0:4.1.3-4.fc18 will be updated
---> Package xen-licenses.x86_64 0:4.2.0-3.fc18 will be an update
---> Package xen-runtime.x86_64 0:4.1.3-4.fc18 will be updated
---> Package xen-runtime.x86_64 0:4.2.0-3.fc18 will be an update
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-0.10.2.1-1.fc18.x86_64 (@updates-testing)
Requires: libxenlight.so.1.0()(64bit)
Removing: xen-libs-4.1.3-4.fc18.x86_64 (@fedora)
libxenlight.so.1.0()(64bit)
Updated By: xen-libs-4.2.0-3.fc18.x86_64 (updates-testing)
Not found
Error: Package: libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-0.10.2.1-1.fc18.x86_64 (@updates-testing)
Requires: libxenctrl.so.4.0()(64bit)
Removing: xen-libs-4.1.3-4.fc18.x86_64 (@fedora)
libxenctrl.so.4.0()(64bit)
Updated By: xen-libs-4.2.0-3.fc18.x86_64 (updates-testing)
Not found
Error: Package: libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-0.10.2.1-1.fc18.x86_64 (@updates-testing)
Requires: libxenguest.so.4.0()(64bit)
Removing: xen-libs-4.1.3-4.fc18.x86_64 (@fedora)
libxenguest.so.4.0()(64bit)
Updated By: xen-libs-4.2.0-3.fc18.x86_64 (updates-testing)
Not found
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
I installed this yesterday, and I installed Xen and libvirt via the
following:
# yum install xen libvirt-daemon-xen
Also, I noticed that the libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl got installed
(although I thought it shouldn't and wasn't :-O):
# rpm -qa | grep libxl
libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-0.10.2.1-1.fc18.x86_64
Is that correct and aligned with the discussion we were having since now
(i.e., going for Xen 4.2 but _without_ the libxl driver in libvirt)? Am
I missing something or doing something wrong?
Thanks and Regards,
Dario
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Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://retis.sssup.it/people/faggioli
Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)
1:03 p.m.
On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 12:14 +0100, Dario Faggioli wrote:
# sudo yum update
[...]
Error: Package: libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-0.10.2.1-1.fc18.x86_64 (@updates-testing)
Requires: libxenlight.so.1.0()(64bit)
Removing: xen-libs-4.1.3-4.fc18.x86_64 (@fedora)
libxenlight.so.1.0()(64bit)
Updated By: xen-libs-4.2.0-3.fc18.x86_64 (updates-testing)
Not found
Error: Package: libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-0.10.2.1-1.fc18.x86_64 (@updates-testing)
Requires: libxenctrl.so.4.0()(64bit)
Removing: xen-libs-4.1.3-4.fc18.x86_64 (@fedora)
libxenctrl.so.4.0()(64bit)
Updated By: xen-libs-4.2.0-3.fc18.x86_64 (updates-testing)
Not found
Error: Package: libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-0.10.2.1-1.fc18.x86_64 (@updates-testing)
Requires: libxenguest.so.4.0()(64bit)
Removing: xen-libs-4.1.3-4.fc18.x86_64 (@fedora)
libxenguest.so.4.0()(64bit)
Updated By: xen-libs-4.2.0-3.fc18.x86_64 (updates-testing)
Not found
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
Ok, that was, at least partially, my fault, as it turned out I had
libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl installed. I removed it (making sure I have
libvirt-daemon-driver-xen), and everything is fine now.
Now I'm seeing this:
# rpm -qi xen-hypervisor
Name : xen-hypervisor
Version : 4.2.0
...
# rpm -qi libvirt-daemon-driver-xen
Name : libvirt-daemon-driver-xen
Version : 0.10.2.1
...
# rpm -qi libvirt
package libvirt is not installed
And, if I try to `yum install libvirt':
# yum install libvirt
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package libvirt.x86_64 0:0.10.2.1-1.fc18 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libvirt-daemon-driver-uml = 0.10.2.1-1.fc18 for package:
libvirt-0.10.2.1-1.fc18.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc = 0.10.2.1-1.fc18 for package:
libvirt-0.10.2.1-1.fc18.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl = 0.10.2.1-1.fc18 for package:
libvirt-0.10.2.1-1.fc18.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter = 0.10.2.1-1.fc18 for
package: libvirt-0.10.2.1-1.fc18.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter.x86_64 0:0.10.2.1-1.fc18 will be installed
---> Package libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl.x86_64 0:0.10.2.1-1.fc18 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libxenlight.so.1.0()(64bit) for package:
libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-0.10.2.1-1.fc18.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libxenguest.so.4.0()(64bit) for package:
libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-0.10.2.1-1.fc18.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libxenctrl.so.4.0()(64bit) for package:
libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-0.10.2.1-1.fc18.x86_64
---> Package libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc.x86_64 0:0.10.2.1-1.fc18 will be installed
---> Package libvirt-daemon-driver-uml.x86_64 0:0.10.2.1-1.fc18 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-0.10.2.1-1.fc18.x86_64 (updates-testing)
Requires: libxenctrl.so.4.0()(64bit)
Available: xen-libs-4.1.3-4.fc18.x86_64 (fedora)
libxenctrl.so.4.0()(64bit)
Installed: xen-libs-4.2.0-3.fc18.x86_64 (@updates-testing)
Not found
Error: Package: libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-0.10.2.1-1.fc18.x86_64 (updates-testing)
Requires: libxenlight.so.1.0()(64bit)
Available: xen-libs-4.1.3-4.fc18.x86_64 (fedora)
libxenlight.so.1.0()(64bit)
Installed: xen-libs-4.2.0-3.fc18.x86_64 (@updates-testing)
Not found
Error: Package: libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-0.10.2.1-1.fc18.x86_64 (updates-testing)
Requires: libxenguest.so.4.0()(64bit)
Available: xen-libs-4.1.3-4.fc18.x86_64 (fedora)
libxenguest.so.4.0()(64bit)
Installed: xen-libs-4.2.0-3.fc18.x86_64 (@updates-testing)
Not found
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
Is that expected?
Dario
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<<This happens because I choose it to happen!>> (Raistlin Majere)
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://retis.sssup.it/people/faggioli
Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)
2:53 p.m.
On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, Dario Faggioli wrote:
...
Error: Package: libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-0.10.2.1-1.fc18.x86_64 (updates-testing)
Requires: libxenctrl.so.4.0()(64bit)
Available: xen-libs-4.1.3-4.fc18.x86_64 (fedora)
libxenctrl.so.4.0()(64bit)
Installed: xen-libs-4.2.0-3.fc18.x86_64 (@updates-testing)
Not found
...
It should be okay once libvirt-0.10.2.1-2.fc18 gets to the updates-testing
repository.
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