Re: qemu-xen is unavailable

[Christian Kujau <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2022, George Dunlap wrote:
> > On Sun, 19 Dec 2021, Christian Kujau wrote:
> > > # xl create -f /etc/xen/debian.cfg
> > > Parsing config from /etc/xen/debian.cfg
> > > libxl: info: libxl_create.c:121:libxl__domain_build_info_setdefault:
> > qemu-xen is unavailable, using qemu-xen-traditional instead: No such file
> > or directory
> >
> > FWIW, something like this is also mentioned in the Release Notes[0]:
> >
> >  | The old qemu-xen-traditional stubdomain device model (ioemu-stubdom)
> >  | is deprecated and no longer built by default.
> >
> > But I don't have any device_model_version settings in my configuration. In
> > fact, /etc/xen/xl.conf has not adjustments at all, should be all
> > "standard" (according to Alpine Linux's configuration, of course).
>
> I think Anthony uses Arch; Anthony, any idea what's going on here?

This was on Alpine Linux, not Arch, so the userbase may be even smaller 
here, although I thought Alpine as a Xen Dom0 was a pretty good fit 
because of its small installation size and reduced complexity, maybe?

Thanks,
Christian.

> >
> > Christian.
> >
> > # xl info
> > host                   : xxx
> > release                : 5.15.10-0-lts
> > version                : #1-Alpine SMP Fri, 17 Dec 2021 10:25:35 +0000
> > machine                : x86_64
> > nr_cpus                : 8
> > max_cpu_id             : 7
> > nr_nodes               : 1
> > cores_per_socket       : 4
> > threads_per_core       : 2
> > cpu_mhz                : 2195.024
> > hw_caps                :
> > bfebfbff:77bae3bf:28100800:00000001:00000001:00000281:00000000:00000100
> > virt_caps              : pv hvm hap shadow gnttab-v1 gnttab-v2
> > total_memory           : 15949
> > free_memory            : 1799
> > sharing_freed_memory   : 0
> > sharing_used_memory    : 0
> > outstanding_claims     : 0
> > free_cpus              : 0
> > xen_major              : 4
> > xen_minor              : 16
> > xen_extra              : .0
> > xen_version            : 4.16.0
> > xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_64 hvm-3.0-x86_32 hvm-3.0-x86_32p
> > hvm-3.0-x86_64
> > xen_scheduler          : credit2
> > xen_pagesize           : 4096
> > platform_params        : virt_start=0xffff800000000000
> > xen_changeset          :
> > xen_commandline        : dom0_mem=512M,max:1024M ucode=scan
> > cc_compiler            : gcc (Alpine 11.2.1_git20211128) 11.2.1 20211128
> > cc_compile_by          : buildozer
> > cc_compile_domain      :
> > cc_compile_date        : Wed Dec 15 22:02:49 UTC 2021
> > build_id               : 5950bd849bf4b1a436abad47edb6b9a752a2fc04
> > xend_config_format     : 4
> >
> > --
> > BOFH excuse #118:
> >
> > the router thinks its a printer.
> >
> >
> 

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