Re: [Xen-users] (pv)hvm, upstream qemu 1.7.1

[Alvin Starr <alvin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

As a side comment.

I just ran the test of device_model = "/usr/bin/qemu-system-i386"
it is from qemu-system-x86-1.6.2-4.fc20.x86_64.
So that it does work in at least one situation.

On 05/09/2014 10:11 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 15:08 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 May 2014, Jacek Konieczny wrote:
> > > On 05/07/14 18:55, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 14 Apr 2014, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > > > Anthony, Stefano: Any idea what this issue is?
> > > > >
> > > > > On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 21:44 +0200, Jacek Konieczny wrote:
> > > > > > What does not work is (PV)HVM with device_model_version="qemu-xen". My
> > > > > > Xen is compiled with '--with-system-qemu=...' and uses the system
> > > > > > qemu-system-x86_64 binary, which is qemu 1.7.1.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This is supposed to work, according to
> > > > > > http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/QEMU_Upstream.
> > > > Sorry for the late reply.
> > > > If you compile qemu-system-i386 instead of qemu-system-x86_64, does that
> > > > work for you?
> > > That only changes the default DM path, right?
> > >
> > > So, I have tried:
> > >
> > > device_model_override = "/usr/bin/qemu-system-i386"
> > That basically defaults to whatever qemu was installed by your distro:
> FWIW Jacek did exactly what I thought you had asked him to do, i.e. try
> the qemu-system-i386 compiled on his system. Were you really trying to
> ask if the Xen version of qemu worked?
>
> > Xen installs qemu to /usr/lib/xen/bin, so you would need:
> >
> > device_model_override = "/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-system-i386"
> >
> > But actually if you just add:
> >
> > device_model_version = "qemu-xen"
> >
> > xl should automatically look for qemu-system-i386 under
> > /usr/lib/xen/bin.
> Note that using the distro provided qemu is *supposed* to work...
>
> Ian.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Xen-users mailing list
> Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://lists.xen.org/xen-users

--
Alvin Starr                   ||   voice: (905)513-7688
Netvel Inc.                   ||   Cell:  (416)806-0133
alvin@xxxxxxxxxx              ||


_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xen.org/xen-users