On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 03:50:23AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
Thanks. Mark Johnson pointed out that we get away with a 32-bit virt-install right now simply because the hypercall libvirt backend fails, and falls back to calling into xend. In general this works well, but seems to have at least one issue that means we might need to create a 64-bit virt-{install,manager} ...
That's odd - to be able to run a 32-bit userspace on 64-bit HV you must be running a Xen 3.1 release or later. If using that, then libvirt should
We're using 3.0.4. I believe that virt-install is only using calls that can be supplied by the xend backend, so the fact that the hypercall backend doesn't work doesn't matter.
You really want to be letting libvirt use the HV because for calls such as listing guests, getting domain stats we get x100 to x1000 lower overheads from talking to the HV instead of XenD. Talking to XenD you'll quickly see
Right. A 3.1 upgrade is planned soon, and we'll probably just do this to resolve the issue. regards, john