Re: [Xen-devel] pygrub, installed with Python 3, doesn't boot Xen DomU-s

[Kevin Buckley <kevin.buckley.ecs.vuw.ac.nz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 03:43, YOUNG, MICHAEL A. <m.a.young@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Yes - this looks like a Py 2/3 compatibility issue.  This particular one
> > is related to
> > https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commitdiff;h=ff915c8cacc264ae1380d51fea07267b8308d7ba
> >
> > However, I can't explain why python is complaining at str.split().
> > split() is a string operation, not a bytes operation.
>
> It looks like you are missing the above patch and I think you also need
> https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commit;h=485079e816788d70169f45579e1f5a8f909dc1b3
> https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commit;h=767ba397d34848c7e0c4e9cdfc5efa4e0cb61442
> and perhaps
> https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commit;h=a57a1b26ec0ae31f924cf2bbcf479637d007be44
> if you build with ocaml. Actually the first of these 3 patches is optional
> as it is just an error message change but should allow the second patch to
> apply cleanly.
>
>         Michael Young

Just to say that, over the weekend, I rebuilt things using Xen commit f7f7cd5
and I now have a Xen environment  that boots my existing Dom0s.

Thanks for all the pointers to the ongoing work as regards pythin2->3.

Kevin

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