Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3] libxc: don't fail domain creation when unpacking initrd fails

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 12:22:43AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
> At least Linux kernels have been able to work with gzip-ed initrd for
> quite some time; initrd compressed with other methods aren't even being
> attempted to unpack. Furthermore the unzip-ing routine used here isn't
> capable of dealing with various forms of concatenated files, each of
> which was gzip-ed separately (it is this particular case which has been
> the source of observed VM creation failures).
> 
> Hence, if unpacking fails, simply hand the compressed blob to the guest
> as is.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>

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