Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] tools: revert to using /var and /etc/

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 10:39 +0000, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> > Another thing is that:
> >         $QEMU_XEN -xen-domid 0 -xen-attach -name dom0 -nographic -M
> > xenpv -daemonize -monitor /dev/null -pidfile $QEMU_PIDFILE
> > 
> > Doesn't seem to start with upstream qemu, combination of -nographic
> > and -daemonize doesn't seem to be allowed anymore.
> > (not a problem for me, because i don't seem to be using it as
> > diskbackend, but for a 4.3 release ...) 
> 
> Stefano, is this expected?
 
No, it is not. Sander, thanks for the report.
This is the reason:

/* According to documentation and historically, -nographic redirects
 * serial port, parallel port and monitor to stdio, which does not work
 * with -daemonize.  We can redirect these to null instead, but since
 * -nographic is legacy, let's just error out.
 * We disallow -nographic only if all other ports are not redirected
 * explicitly, to not break existing legacy setups which uses
 * -nographic _and_ redirects all ports explicitly - this is valid
 * usage, -nographic is just a no-op in this case.
 */

If fact it looks like that the appended patch fixes it, can you please
confirm it?

---

diff --git a/tools/hotplug/Linux/init.d/xencommons 
b/tools/hotplug/Linux/init.d/xencommons
index cc8177e..dc40425 100644
--- a/tools/hotplug/Linux/init.d/xencommons
+++ b/tools/hotplug/Linux/init.d/xencommons
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ do_start () {
        test "`uname`" != "NetBSD" || xenbackendd $XENBACKENDD_ARGS
        echo Starting QEMU as disk backend for dom0
        test -z "$QEMU_XEN" && QEMU_XEN=/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-system-i386
-       $QEMU_XEN -xen-domid 0 -xen-attach -name dom0 -nographic -M xenpv 
-daemonize -monitor /dev/null
+       $QEMU_XEN -xen-domid 0 -xen-attach -name dom0 -nographic -M xenpv 
-daemonize -monitor /dev/null -serial /dev/null -parallel /dev/null
 }
 do_stop () {
         echo Stopping xenconsoled

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