Re: [Xen-devel] [OSSTEST PATCH 22/26] ts-debian-hvm-install: Use /dev/sda for i386, not /dev/xvda

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [OSSTEST PATCH 22/26] ts-debian-hvm-install: Use 
/dev/sda for i386, not /dev/xvda"):
> Because of this the i386 install ends up using the emulated sda device
> instead of switching to the pv devices as amd64 does.

Indeed.

> I think it's probably worth explaining some of this in the commit log
> rather than "Empirically".

Fair enough.

> IIRC someone was working on enabling PVHVM even for non-PAE i386 kernels,
> not sure what the status of that is, but clearly it isn't going to change
> things for Wheezy.
> 
> If you wanted instead to enable PV support for these installs then the
> multi-arch (i386+amd64) isoimages contain the Xen enabled kernels for i386
> (as /install.386/xen/*, n.b. /install.amd/xen/* are suitable symlinks, so
> you can aoid special cases.

I think testing both the emulated and PVHVM devices, in a single test
job, is quite nice, actually.  And it doesn't seem too slow.  So I
will keep it this way.

> Anyway, that's clearly an "if you can be bothered thing" so with an
> expanded commit message:
>     Acked-by: Ian Campbell <    ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx    >

Thanks.

Ian.

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