Re: [Xen-users] [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen 4.4 packaging.

[Antony Messerli <amesserl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I¹ve been working with xapi and 4.3 in Jessie and I ran into some issues
getting PVHVM working.  It appears that qemu-dm was pulled out in 4.2 and
on and I don¹t think a resolution to this was ever completed.
(https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688311) Should we look
into bundling qemu back in traditional mode or getting a proper qemu-xen
package working?  I hope to give your 4.4 packaging a try this weekend.

Ant

On 6/19/14, 5:39 AM, "Fabio Fantoni" <fantonifabio@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Il 22/05/2014 11:46, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto:
>> Il 18/05/2014 20:11, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto:
>>> Il 17/05/2014 18:54, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto:
>>>> Il 03/05/2014 11:30, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto:
>>>>>> On Thu, 2014-03-06 at 14:05 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>>>>> > Hi waldi,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Are you planning to update the Xen package too 4.4 soon?
>>>>>> Upstream have
>>>>>> > released 4.4-rc6 and AIUI are planning to release the final
>>>>>> version next
>>>>>> > week (I've been out of the office for a bit, so I don't know the
>>>>>> precise
>>>>>> > state, but that was the last I heard).
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I would like to send patches to enable the build on ARM but this
>>>>>> relies
>>>>>> > on 4.4. I'm happy to do the upgrade first and send you patches
>>>>>> if you
>>>>>> > would prefer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In the meantime 4.4.0 has been released and it seems like Stefan has
>>>>>> done most of the hard work to update the packaging in Ubuntu. I'd
>>>>>> like
>>>>>> to get this into Jessie sooner rather than later. Do you object to
>>>>>>me
>>>>>> working on this at some point?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ian.
>>>>> Yes Ubuntu xen 4.4 packages can be a start, I think also that is
>>>>> good remove more debian/patches possible to make faster future
>>>>> updates.
>>>>> I already reported here:
>>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xen/+bug/1297224
>>>>> At least 3 pathes can be already removed and use configure values
>>>>> instead.
>>>>> Probably there are also other things that can be fixed and/or
>>>>> improved upstream instead always have and maintain dozen of distros
>>>>> patches.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for any help about debian packages and sorry for my band
>>>>> english.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Are there some news about new xen packages for debian?
>>>>
>>>> I did some small improvements to latest xen's ubuntu packages:
>>>> https://github.com/Fantu/pkg-xen
>>>>
>>>> If you have not had the time I could try to update the debian
>>>> packages by making a first draft and testing them (excluding test
>>>> the arm hypervisor on which I have not sufficient knowledge).
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any reply and sorry for my bad english.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I did a draft of xen 4.4 packages for debian starting from
>>> 4.4.0-0ubuntu5 plus some changes.
>>> I included the close of some bugs in changelog but surely there will
>>> be more resolved to be added.
>>> I tested build on sid and was successfull.
>>> During the week when I have time I'll make the buildon a clean sid
>>> and I'll test thepackages.
>>> I'll probably do other improvements.
>>>
>>> The draft I did with all changes are here:
>>> https://github.com/Fantu/pkg-xen/tree/debian-next
>>>
>>> Any feedback is appreciated.
>>>
>>
>> I could not try it on sid because it is not installed sid on my test
>> Dell PE server due to a kernel3.14 regression.
>> I tried it on wheezy for now:
>> https://github.com/Fantu/pkg-xen/tree/wheezy-backports
>
>Now that kernel bug is solved I tested it also on sid and it works.
>https://github.com/Fantu/pkg-xen/tree/debian-next
>Is there any debian maintainer can update the xen's packages on debian
>unstable?
>I think the my draft should be a good start.
>
>Thanks for any reply.
>
>>
>> ------------------------------------
>> Result of my tests:
>> ---
>> Tested:
>> dom0 architecture amd64 on intel cpu: ok
>> domUs pv and hvm (with pv drivers): ok
>> xl: ok
>> pygrub: ok
>> vnc: ok
>> spice: ok
>> usbredir: ok
>> save/restore: ok
>> qdisk: ok
>> ---
>> Not tested:
>> dom0 architectures i386, armhf and arm64
>> xend/xm
>> ocaml (with xapi)
>> ---
>> ------------------------------------
>>
>> I added xen-users to cc if someone want help me to test and improve
>> the packages.
>> Below there are some notes for easy and fast test the packages on
>> wheezy, even if the comments are in italian the used commands should
>> be enough, important notes are seabios install from backports before
>> creating the xen packages and installqemu after recompiling it with
>> the latest xen libraries.
>>
>>> 
>>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>--------------------------------------
>>>
>>> CREARE PACCHETTI XEN E TUTTI GLI ALTRI UFFICIALI DA BACKPORTS
>>> -------------------------
>>> aptitude install build-essential git devscripts
>>> ---
>>> # Attivazione backports
>>> vi /etc/apt/sources.list # Aggiungere le seguenti righe
>>> deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main non-free
>>> contrib
>>> deb-src http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main
>>> non-free contrib
>>> ---
>>> # ! Installare pacchetti seabios da backports
>>> aptitude -t wheezy-backports install seabios
>>> # Installare altre dipendenze per la build di xen
>>> aptitude install python-dev bcc gcc-multilib e2fslibs-dev iasl
>>> ipxe-qemu libaio-dev libglib2.0-dev libgnutls-dev liblzma-dev
>>> libncurses5-dev libpci-dev libyajl-dev libssl-dev pkg-config uuid-dev
>>> zlib1g-dev ocaml-nox dh-ocaml ocaml-findlib
>>> # Installare dipendenze runtime xen
>>> aptitude install gawk
>>> ---
>>> wget
>>> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xen/xen_4.4.0.orig.tar.gz
>>> tar -xpzf xen_4.4.0.orig.tar.gz
>>> git clone https://github.com/Fantu/pkg-xen.git
>>> cd pkg-xen/
>>> git checkout wheezy-backports
>>> cp debian/ ../xen-4.4.0/
>>> cd ../xen-4.4.0/
>>> debuild -i -b -us -uc
>>> cd ..
>>> dpkg -i libxen-4*.deb libxen-dev*.deb libxenstore3*.deb
>>> xen-hypervisor-4.4*.deb xenstore-utils*.deb xen-utils-*.deb
>>> ---
>>> # Installare dipendenze da bpo
>>> aptitude -t wheezy-backports install libusbredirparser-dev
>>> libusb-1.0-0-dev libspice-protocol-dev libspice-server-dev
>>> # Installare altre dipendenze
>>> aptitude install device-tree-compiler libasound2-dev libattr1-dev
>>> libbluetooth-dev libbrlapi-dev libcap-dev libcap-ng-dev
>>> libcurl4-gnutls-dev libfdt-dev libiscsi-dev libpulse-dev libsasl2-dev
>>> libsdl1.2-dev libssh2-1-dev libvdeplug-dev xfslibs-dev libjpeg8-dev
>>> libpng12-dev
>>> # Ricompilare pacchetti qemu da backports, purtroppo necessario per
>>> librerie xen differenti
>>> wget
>>> 
>>>http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/q/qemu/qemu_2.0.0+dfsg.orig.ta
>>>r.xz
>>> wget
>>> 
>>>http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/q/qemu/qemu_2.0.0+dfsg-4~bpo70
>>>+1.debian.tar.gz
>>> tar -xpJf qemu_2.0.0+dfsg.orig.tar.xz
>>> tar -xpzf qemu_2.0.0+dfsg-4~bpo70+1.debian.tar.gz
>>> mv debian/ qemu-2.0.0+dfsg/
>>> cd qemu-2.0.0+dfsg/
>>> debuild -i -b -us -uc
>>> dpkg -i qemu-system-x86*.deb qemu-system-common*.deb
>>> qemu-keymaps*.deb qemu-utils*.deb
>>> 
>>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>--------------------------------------
>>>
>>
>>
>
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