Hi Jim, hope you enjoyed your vacations :-) On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 04:02:54PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
Attached is an updated patch providing some support for HVM guests. I have tested listing info on running guests and creating guests. cdrom support for HVM guests still needs some work, as does graphics options. Guests using graphics type 'sdl' still need some work. Using type 'vnc' is functional, but you must then manually use e.g. "vncviewer localhost:<dom_id>" to view.
Okay, I have been looking at it in the last couple of days I have changed the XML description slightly in the os part: - instead stating that hvmloader is a kernel, well I used a <loader>/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader</loader> loader tag intead, contrary to the non HVM version the kernel doesn't point to a kernel file, so better rename to what it actually is - second the device_model is really a device emulator, better placed in the <devices> section so it is moved there as <emulator>/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm</emulator> I have made changes to the XML conversion code to reflect this, I will commit whithin one hour or two. Attached is one example of the XML for HVM.
I've also included a patch that backs out some optimizations done xend_internal.c. There is a bug in xend (from testing - I think Anthony fixed it and patch got applied to unstable) that does not close the connection after initial create op causing libvirt to block indefinitely. Backing out the optimizations allowed me to use the hvm patch on _testing branch of xen. I've included it for anyone else that may want to experiment with the hvm patch on _testing xen.
Okay I applied it, it is clearly identified and we can revert it later, more likely this current code will die slowly when converted to XML-RPC.
Finally, the attached archive contains: 1. a sample xml input file for hvm guest, 2. corresponding s-expr sent to xend, and 3. s-expr returned from xend when getting info on the running guest.
Thanks, that helped a lot :-) Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat http://redhat.com/ veillard@redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/