Re: [Xen-devel] [xen-unstable test] 100789: regressions - FAIL [and 2 more messages]

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 03:23:38PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Wei Liu writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [xen-unstable test] 100789: regressions - 
> FAIL"):
> > I see three ways to move this forward.
> >
> > 3. Retire these two tests.
> 
> Do we expect users still to want VHD support ?  We still allegedly
> support VHD for guests.  So we shouldn't retire these tests unless we
> are dropping VHD support entirely.
> 
> AFAICT users who want VHD support need to be able to create images
> etc.
> 
> > 2. Install blktap-utils shipped in Debian (available from Wheezy
> >    onwards), the main difficulty would be the package depends on a dkms
> >    package that seems to require building with kernel header when
> >    installing.
> 
> According to Debian, we (Xen) are upstream for this package.  It makes
> no sense for osstest to install something from Debian which we have
> deleted upstream !
> 
> > 1. Resurrect vhd-util from blktap2.
> 
> What is wrong with this plan ?
> 
> > In the meantime, if we want to avoid blocking xen-unstable for too long,
> > we might want to force push.
> 
> If that's a consideration, we should be considering a revert, not a
> force push.
> 
> Andrew Cooper writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [xen-unstable test] 100789: 
> regressions - FAIL"):
> > +1 to a force push for now.  There are quite a few changes currently
> > blocked.
> 
> IMO that is not a good reason for a force push.
> 
> Wei Liu writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [xen-unstable test] 100789: regressions - 
> FAIL"):
> > 4. Provide a pre-made vhd image.
> > 
> > vhd-util create disk.vhd -s 10000 -> 24K in actual size.
> 
> This is no good because
> 
> 1. disk.vhd is a file for which we would have deleted the source code!
> 
> 2. Users need the ability to create images.
> 

It seems that we have different expectations on how things work.

I will revert that two patches now. Let's sort out the story later.

Wei.

> Ian.

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