Backport libvirt / libxl PV console fix

[George Dunlap]

On 06/26/2014 03:51 PM, Stefan Bader wrote:
> 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... ;)

Done: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/1334738

Did you want me to create a bug for the libvirt AppArmor profile as well?

  -George