[Xen-users] 4.6 rc2 on Vivid 15.04

[Mark Pryor <tlviewer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Xen,

Xenproject calls for tests on 4.6 rc2, but provides no complete tarball. There is an abbreviate tarball (missing sub-projects in tools, like qemu) in the mirage repo (about 5MB).

Incomplete tarball

https://github.com/mirage/xen/archive/4.6.0-rc2.tar.gz

So I used the make target `src-release-tarball` after

git checkout 4.6.0-rc2

As noted on xen-devel, there is a problem with stubdom build that I fixed with this patch

http://pastebin.com/5yGcG1cA (xen-mini-os-local.patch)

Now I had my own complete tarball to build with. My results (xen-upstream*.deb) are here

http://107.185.144.55/xen/ubuntu/vivid/46x/

After install and setup. I ran my set of PV and HVM (Win7) domU. Vivid dom0 has a bug in

scripts/init-bottom

where the bootup will hang if there are Volume Groups (LVM), but no root on LVM. It hung for almost

21s. I solved this by modifying the 85-lvm2.rules which goes in the ramfs, removing the vgchange call.

I left the *rules used by kernel alone, as is.

All of my linux PV domU and Win7 HVM ran fine.

I chose Vivid to test rc2 since it has kernel 3.19.x and systemd-219, and has the benefit of the Debian 8 experience.

regards,
PryMar56 from freenode

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