Backport libvirt / libxl PV console fix

[George Dunlap]

On 06/26/2014 05:24 PM, Stefan Bader wrote:
> 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

OK.  Also reported a final more minor bug, 1334749: virsh and 
virt-install not automatically defaulting to Xen when running on a Xen 
system.  (You have to specify "-c xen:///")

  -George
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