Re: [Xen-users] ERROR: Toolstack not specifed and nothing detected, bailing out!

[Simon Jones <Simon@xxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Campbell [mailto:Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 03 May 2013 15:17
To: Simon Jones
Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] ERROR: Toolstack not specifed and nothing detected, 
bailing out!

On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 15:09 +0100, Simon Jones wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Campbell [mailto:Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 03 May 2013 14:56
> To: Simon Jones
> Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] ERROR: Toolstack not specifed and nothing detected, 
> bailing out!
> 
[...]
> Thanks Ian,

Please can you arrange to use normal > quoting. Otherwise it is hard to spot 
your new material.

> Got it working again and am back to the original error:
> 
> root@xen-1:~# xm create /etc/xen/windows8.cfg Using config file 
> "/etc/xen/windows8.cfg".
> Error: Errors were found at line 2 while processing /etc/xen/windows8.cfg:
>            builder='hvm'
> 
> here's the config file:
> 
> kernel = "/usr/lib/xen-4.0/boot/hvmloader"
>    builder='hvm'
>    memory = 4096
>    vcpus=4

xm apparently doesn't tolerate leading spaces.

Which was news to me but when I removed a few experimentally it seemed to 
accept those lines.

Oh wait, since xm parses these files as Python code its obvious why it is 
whitespace sensitive. Stupid language...

Ian.

Aargh! As simple as that, you are a star - thank you!
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