Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH OSSTEST v2 10/13] TestSupport: don't put kernel='hvmloader' in HVM config

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2015-07-13 at 12:28 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-07-12 at 17:20 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> > Setting kernel to hvmloader is ignored in xl but not in libvirt. Libvirt
> > config converter will translate that then pass it to QEMU. QEMU
> > complains there is no kernel called hvmloader and exits.
> > 
> > Just remove this option. Xl is not affected and libvirt will be able to
> > create HVM guest.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Not sure if this affects Xend. We seem to only have one test case for
> > xend in 4.3.
> 
> I fear it might indeed break things for 4.3 and older with xend.

BTW, rather than faffing trying to find out, I'd be inclined to just
insert it if the toolstack is xend and omit it otherwise.

> 
> > ---
> >  Osstest/TestSupport.pm | 1 -
> >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Osstest/TestSupport.pm b/Osstest/TestSupport.pm
> > index 66dc218..5336079 100644
> > --- a/Osstest/TestSupport.pm
> > +++ b/Osstest/TestSupport.pm
> > @@ -1625,7 +1625,6 @@ sub more_prepareguest_hvm ($$$$;@) {
> >      my $disks = join ",\t\t\n", map { "'$_'" } @disks;
> >  
> >      my $cfg = <<END;
> > -kernel      = 'hvmloader'
> >  builder     = 'hvm'
> >  #
> >  disk        = [
> 



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