Ack: Re: [Natty, Oneiric] [SRU] Built-in some Xen drivers

Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski herton.krzesinski at canonical.com
Thu Dec 1 17:06:43 UTC 2011


On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 04:44:10PM +0100, Stefan Bader wrote:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/+source/linux/+bug/886521
> 
> SRU justification:
> 
> Impact: Xen HVM guests (since around 2.6.36) will by default disable
> (unplug) the emulated devices in favour of the paravirtualized drivers
> when support for both is present (module or built-in).
> This would make Xen installs more complicated (even if we put them into
> a udeb because they are not getting autoprobed).
> 
> Fix: Change the configurations to have those (and the platform driver
> which is recommended and actually non-configurable in 3.2 and later)
> built-in.
> 
> Testcase: Installing a normal cdimage in HVM mode.
> 
> -Stefan
> 
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