Backport libvirt / libxl PV console fix

[Stefan Bader]

On 26.06.2014 17:57, George Dunlap wrote:
> 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
> 
Thanks! :) No, I already got those:

- bug 1334195 and
- bug 1326003

-Stefan

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