Backport libvirt / libxl PV console fix

[Stefan Bader]

On 26.06.2014 16:48, George Dunlap wrote:
> Another issue I ran into using virt-installer with libvirt/libxl in
> 14.04 was this:
> 
> http://pastebin.com/6pbS6Db7
> 
> # virt-install --connect=xen:/// --name u14.04 --ram 1024 --disk
> U1L1.img,size=2 --location
> http://ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/raring/main/installer-amd64/
> 
> Starting install...
> Retrieving file MANIFEST...
>                         | 2.1 kB     00:00 ...
> Retrieving file MANIFEST...
>                         | 2.1 kB     00:00 ...
> Retrieving file vmlinuz...
>                         |  10 MB     00:00 ...
> Retrieving file initrd.gz...
>                         |  36 MB     02:34 ...
> Creating storage file U1L1.img
>                         | 2.0 GB     00:00
> Creating domain...
>                         |    0 B     00:03
> Connected to domain u14.04
> Escape character is ^]
> error: internal error: cannot find character device <null>
> 
> It turns out this was fixed in libvirt 1.2.4; c/s
> 657cb1e44d90bab451256616f9d98fb4439a080c
> 
> (You can browse the commit here:
> http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=657cb1e44d90bab451256616f9d98fb4439a080c
> )
> 
> Would it be possible to backport that change into 14.04, so
> virt-install can be used to install PV guests?

It should be possible. Care to create a Launchpad bug for me about that? :) I
mean, I *can* do it too, but since you provide most of the info anyway... ;)

-Stefan
> 
> Thanks!
>  -George
> 


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