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Hello,

The xen-4.8 packages in Stretch are an `Nmu build` done by Ian Jackson, a Xen Developer. He stepped up to do that build at a difficult time when the Official Xen Maintainer was not planning to move to xen-4.8.

Since its release, Stretch has updated some important C-libs, like libc6, but the Xen packages have not kept up. They are dated May 2017, since before the Stretch release.

Today I did a monolithic build of xen-4.8, patched to HEAD, that includes all the stubdoms and the pvgrub2 binaries. They are in usr-lib-xen-boot/ here

http://prymar56.org/xen/debian/stretch/48x

grab the stubdom/pvgrub2 objects you need and copy them to

/usr/lib/xen-4.8/boot/

Its almost certain that the distro Xen packages need to be rebuilt to keep up with changes in C-libs and qemu-system-x86.

If you are interested in a debian-delta to rebuild the Xen Nmu build found in the distro repo, I've done it here

http://prymar56.org/xen/debian/stretch-nmu/48x/

PryMar56

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On Thursday, August 10, 2017 9:05 PM, Brian Hoy <brian.hoy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi folks,

I've rebuilt a hypervisor system on Debian 9 and used the Debian Xen

packages, however my Windows VM that uses device model stub domains will

not start:

$ xl create /etc/xen/wlgpc105

Parsing config from wlgpc105

xc: error: panic: xc_dom_core.c:208: failed to open file

'/usr/lib/xen-4.8/boot/ioemu-stubdom.gz': No such file or directory:

Internal error

libxl: error: libxl_dom.c:709:libxl__build_pv: xc_dom_kernel_file

failed: No such file or directory

libxl: error: libxl_dm.c:1932:stubdom_pvqemu_cb: error connecting nics

devices: No such file or directory

libxl: error: libxl_create.c:1504:domcreate_devmodel_started: device

model did not start: -3

libxl: error: libxl.c:1575:libxl__destroy_domid: non-existant domain 30

libxl: error: libxl.c:1534:domain_destroy_callback: unable to destroy

guest with domid 30

libxl: error: libxl.c:1463:domain_destroy_cb: destruction of domain 30

failed

Previously when I was running on Debian 8 with a hypervisor that I

compiled myself, the ioemu-stubdom.gz file did exist. My preference

would be to use the Debian Xen packages rather than manually compiling Xen.

Does Xen 4.8.1 on Debian 9 support device model stub domains?

If so, then presumably I'm missing a package or two with components to

run stub domains, but I can figure out what that is. I have these installed:

$ dpkg -l | grep -e xen -e qemu

ii grub-xen-bin 2.02~beta3-5 amd64 GRand

Unified Bootloader, version 2 (Xen binaries)

ii grub-xen-host 2.02~beta3-5 amd64 GRand

Unified Bootloader, version 2 (Xen host version)

ii ipxe-qemu 1.0.0+git-20161027.b991c67-1 all PXE boot

firmware - ROM images for qemu

ii libxen-4.8:amd64 4.8.1-1+deb9u1 amd64 Public

libs for Xen

ii libxenstore3.0:amd64 4.8.1-1+deb9u1 amd64

Xenstore communications library for Xen

ii qemu-system-common 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u2 amd64 QEMU

full system emulation binaries (common files)

ii qemu-system-x86 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u2 amd64 QEMU

full system emulation binaries (x86)

ii qemu-utils 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u2 amd64 QEMU utilities

ii xen-hypervisor-4.8-amd64 4.8.1-1+deb9u1 amd64

Xen Hypervisor on AMD64

ii xen-linux-system-amd64 4.9+80+deb9u1 amd64

Xen system with Linux for 64-bit PCs (dummy package)

ii xen-system-amd64 4.8.1-1+deb9u1 amd64 Xen

System on AMD64 (meta-package)

ii xen-tools 4.7-1 all Tools to

manage Xen virtual servers

ii xen-utils-4.8 4.8.1-1+deb9u1 amd64 XEN

administrative tools

ii xen-utils-common 4.8.1-1+deb9u1 all Xen

administrative tools - common files

ii xenstore-utils 4.8.1-1+deb9u1 amd64 Xenstore

command line utilities for Xen

Any ideas? Many thanks.

Regards,

Brian

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