On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 01:55:57PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > > Ok I just used a couple of hours testing Xen 4.4.1 rpms on CentOS 6.6 with Linux 3.10 dom0 kernel. > > This session was all about xm/xend testing. I manually enabled xend first. > > > > > > What Works OK: > > - Manually creating/managing guests with xm and domU cfgfiles in /etc/xen and LVM volumes as storage (phy backend). > > - Manually creating/managing guests with xm and domU cfgfiles in /etc/xen and file images as storage (tap2:aio backend). > > - Using virt-install to install PV domUs using LVM volumes as storage (phy backend). > > - Using virt-manager to install PV domUs using LVM volumes as storage (phy backend). > > > > What doesn't work: > > - Using virt-manager to install PV domUs using file images as storage (tap:aio backend). > > > > > > This libvirt/blktap2 file images failure with Xen 4.4 rpms is a regression from Xen 4.2 rpms, where blktap2 works OK with libvirt/virt-install/virt-manager. > > > > The problem is most probably the fact that we had custom patches included in the xen4c6 libvirt rpms that we shipped with the Xen 4.2 rpms. > > We had to add two patches, one patch to fix the blktap2 backend type in libvirt, and one patch to fix the blktap2 backend type in virt-install or virt-manager, i'm not totally sure which one it was. Those patches should be included in the earlier libvirt source rpms, so we can check there. Or I can search thru my emails, because I hunted that down earlier aswell. > > > > It seems we still need those patches with the latest libvirt rpms too. > > > > The actual problem is libvirt/virt-manager tries to configure tap:aio: backend, which won't work. > > It needs to be tap2:aio. > > > > I get the exactly same behaviour with xm/xend. "tap:aio" stalls and fails. "tap2:aio" works OK. > > > > Now with the new python-virtinst and then new kernel from here: > > > http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/xen4-test/ > > But with the new libvirt-1.2 and xen 4.4 from this repo, everything > seems to work with xend enabled. > Yep, with the updated python-virtinst all works now, also with the Xen 4.4 rpms. Thanks a lot! -- Pasi _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
