Re: "Hotplug scripts not working" when starting domU

[Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

Sarton O'Brien wrote:
> Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
>> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>>> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:17:07PM -0600, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:50:25AM +0100, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
>>>>> # /etc/rc.d/xenbackendd stop
>>>>> # xenbackendd -d
>>>> d'oh!  I completely missed the bit about xenbackendd in the
>>>> instructions, and
>>>>  I had only started xend.  With xenbackendd running, I get a bit
>>>> farther, but
>>>>  I'm still seeing some errors about unable to find
>>>> /local/domain/0/... not
>>>>  found.  Then when I tried to kill all the xen proceses because
>>>> things seemed
>>>> to be hanging, I got a panic.  oops.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, I seem to have managed to get it working with just the disk
>>>> device, so
>>>>  I'm on figuring how to get the vif line working.
>>>
>>> did you create tre bridge it attaches to ?
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, I did all that, and got it all working ok.  It was pretty easy
>> once I started all the necessary daemons.
>>
>> So far the only quirk I've run to is that I can't power off the
>> machine, even with a "halt -p" in dom0.
>>
>> However, I'm thinking of starting over, because I didn't realize that
>> there is a newer 3.3 version of Xen.  Is there any reason that I
>> wouldn't want to use the most recent Xen?
> 
> No showstoppers. The only persistent bug that I'm currently aware of is
> the inability to attach to a domu with an ID of 1 using 'xm console'.

I fixed this bug today and sent the fix upstream. I will apply the fix
to pkgsrc tomorrow.

Christoph