• XenUpdate20100205

January 30, 2010 - February 5, 2010

Xen.org Community Weekly Update

Full Newsletter for Week -

Events

• Xen Summit North America - April 21-22, 2010 at AMD in Sunnyvale, CA
• Xen.org Booth at SCALE 2010 - Feb 19-21, 2010 (8th Annual Southern California Linux Expo) in Los Angeles, CA

• Xen.org Booth at SouthEast LinuxFest - June 12-13, 2010

Xen Wiki Updates

• VTdHowTo - http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/VTdHowTo

• IntelVT - http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/IntelVT

• Xen Hypervisor Boot Options - http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenHypervisorBootOptions

• Xen Common Problems - http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenCommonProblems

• Xen Serial Console - http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenSerialConsole

Xen-DEVEL Mailing List

Announcements

• Xen Summit NA at AMD Topic Submission System Open - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00137.html

General Issues

• Xen & libvirt - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00052.html

• GCOV status - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00216.html

Request for Comment & Discussion Threads

• Xen vbd numbering - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00183.html

• [RFC SWIOTLB-0.4] - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00188.html

Submitted Patches & Discussion Threads

• [PATCH] pygrub: support parsing of syslinux configuration files - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-01/msg01216.html

• [PATCH] linux/balloon: fix accounting for HVM-with-PoD case - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00012.html

• [PATCH] Export mca_op to user space tools - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00004.html

• [PATCH] Don't enable irq for machine check vmexit - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00002.html

• Host Numa informtion in dom0 - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00005.html

• [PATCH] [PVOPS] fix gntdev on PAE - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00016.html

• [PATCH 0 of 2 - 2 of 2] Remus: small fixes to tool, kmod build - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00045.html

• [PATCH] xentrace: Disable tracing, then read records one more time. - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00033.html

• [PATCH] xentrace: Clear lost records when disabling tracing - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00032.html

• [PATCH] Trace p2m events - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00030.html

• [PATCH 1/2 - 2/2] libxc: Check full range of pfns for xc_dom_pfn_to_ptr - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00128.html

• [PATCH] xl: Do not duplicate last line of compat config file - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00127.html

• [PATCH] Disallow "/" in domain names - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00083.html

• [PVOPS][PATCH] xen-swiotlb: don't allocate DMA-memory beyond 32-bit - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00038.html

• [PATCH 1/6 - 6/6] xen/hybrid: add support for hvm_op - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00062.html

• [PATCH][v2] Hybrid extension support in Xen - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00057.html

• [PATCH] to fix S3 page fault issue for intel TXT - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00066.html

• [PATCH] tools/xen-detect: return xen version - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00047.html

• [Patch] VT-d: fix a bug in enable_ats_device - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00158.html

• [PATCH] x86: make max_mfn returned from XENMEM_machphys_mapping dynamic - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00176.html

• [PATCH] x86: fix frame table initialization when hotplug memory regions were detected - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00175.html

• [PATCH] tools: build fix for blktap2 - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00258.html

• [PATCH 0/3 - 3/3] VT-d: support Intel IGD passthrough - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00240.html

• [PATCH 1/2 - 2/2] libxl: notice if vbd virt device specifier ("path") unrecognised - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00269.html

• [PATCH] Reorder functions in xc_misc.c to avoid weak symbol problem - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00259.html

• [PATCH] linux/blkfront: don't access freed struct xenbus_device - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00249.html

• [PATCH] linux/i386: dma_addr_t must always be 64 bits wide - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00181.html

• [PATCH] Fix one wrong sanity checking in memory add - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00253.html

• [PATCH] Change the notion of "online" node - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00252.html

• [PATCH 01/11 - 11/11] [swiotlb] fix: Update 'setup_io_tlb_npages' to accept both arguments in either order. - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00193.html

• [PATCH] EPT entry structure changes - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00237.html

• [PATCH]remove the runtime download and compile of libconfig package - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00257.html

• [PATCH] - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00256.html

• [PATCH] Remus: fix ia64 build - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00293.html

• [PATCH 0/5 - 5/5] [POST-4.0]: RFC: HVM NUMA guest support - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00279.html

Execution Errors

• with Xen4 config -> (pci-passthrough-strict-check no), DomU init reports "Error: pci: PCI Backend and pci-stub don't own device" -

• TSO failure from FreeBSD HVM PV netfront guest to Dom0 - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-01/msg01239.html

• early crash with xen/next - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00023.html

• 4.0.0 rc2: possible bugs - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00075.html

• [XSM] Cannot load acm policy - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00049.html

• xen 4.0.0 pvops-dom0: machine locks up - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00163.html

• Possible bug in pvops dom0 kernel - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00146.html

• Minor bug in 4.0.0-rc2 - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00218.html

• Linux hangs during reboot on Jeremy's git kernel - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00308.html

• Problems with serial console - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00291.html

• Xen 4 rc2: pv domU memory corruption - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00290.html

• pvops domU crashed under Xen 4 rc2 - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00278.html

• http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15225 - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00276.html

Code Questions

• "Iomem mapping not permitted" during windows crash dump under GPLPV - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-01/msg01230.html

• PoD issue - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-01/msg01253.html

• Pvops kernel: HARDIRQ-safe -> HARDIRQ-unsafe lock order detected - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-01/msg01243.html

• Xen EPT modifications and interceptions - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00156.html

• SSE Instruction emulation in Xen - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00203.html

• MSRs in Xen! - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00305.html

Compiling Issues

• uuid build problems with xen 4.0.0 rc2 on Fedora 12 - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00145.html

How to Questions

• xen 3.4 live migration with vnc - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-01/msg01247.html

• cpu-pools patch - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-01/msg01240.html

• Q on netfront/netback driver - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-01/msg01250.html

• Xen-4.0.0-rc1 root Device ca01 and console hvc0 - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-01/msg01238.html

• howto install multiple, concurrent versions of Xen4? - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00267.html

• xen-unstable & pvops on *Suse distro? successful howto? - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00184.html

• pvops netconsole - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00285.html

Weekly Benchmark Tests

• [IA64] Weekly benchmark results [2010ww05] - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-02/msg00292.html

Xen Cloud Issues

Xen Client Issues

Projects

Xen-API Mailing List

Announcements

• [XCP] API documentation - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00040.html

Request for Comment

Patches

• [PATCH] CA-36294: Fix performance issues when credentials are given using the pool secret. - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00013.html

• [PATCH] CA-35968: read-only roles can call pool.ha_compute_hypothetical_max_host_failures_to_tolerate - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00014.html

• [PATCH 0 of 8 - 8 of 8] [CA-31705] Improves error handling within vm-memory-target-wait. - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00001.html

• [PATCH] CA-37154: vswitch: Use MAC address of tagged PIF for VLAN fake-bridge - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00010.html

• [PATCH] call setsid() before exec() in fork/exec daemon - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00039.html

• [PATCH 0 of 3 - 3 of 3] xapi changes for likewise 5.4 - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00035.html

• Fix CA-37292 - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00043.html

• [PATCH 00 of 12 - 12 of 12] [PCR-0047] Enhances XCP guest-memory-field-checking logic so that XCP can choose the most appropriate set of constraints to apply for the current context. - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00019.html

• [PATCH] CA-36252: non-RBAC errors in xapi_http should pass through - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00016.html

• [PATCH] Makes the allocator more robust by enabling allocation of 0 bytes - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00046.html

• [PATCH] Adds `join' to the Opt module - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00045.html

• [PATCH] Adds take and tails to our extended list module - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00042.html

• [PATCH] Module Fun gets operators for function composition and application - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00041.html

• [PATCH] Expose pool-level restrictions - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00030.html

• [PATCH] Add restrict_vswitch_controller - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00031.html

• [PATCH] Add Network.MTU field - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00032.html

• [PATCH] Tests the allocator using the Kaputt framework - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00048.html

• [PATCH] Improves the help text for the memory-related CLI functions "xe vm-memory-{dynamic, static}-range-set" - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00049.html

• [PATCH] [CA-36287] Makes it possible use various memory-related API functions to configure templates. Extends the "vm-memory-limits-set", "vm-memory-dynamic-range-set" and "vm-memory-static-range-set" functions to accept template UUIDs - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00050.html

• [PATCH] add a first-class field for a vswitch controller - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00061.html

• [PATCH] Always allow dom0 to be ballooned - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00060.html

• [PATCH] Make sure we can't VBD.plug while lvhd_stop_using_these_vdis is in progress - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00064.html

• [PATCH] Make sure VBD.unpause doesn't fail in a nasty way if the device has disappeared - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00057.html

• [PATCH] Fixed a typo in the binpack module - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00076.html

• [PATCH] Remove forward compatability code from the python XenA - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00075.html

• [PATCH] add simulator support for SCHEDOP_remote_shutdown - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00073.html

• [PATCH] add simulator support for SCHEDOP_remote_shutdown - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00074.html

• [PATCH] fix broken rebase - mea culpa - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00072.html

• [PATCH 0 of 2 - 2 of 2] add some experimental feature on/off switches - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00067.html

• [PATCH] cli server should ask for password for local-session - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00066.html

Compilation Issue

General Question

• Remus in XCP - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00009.html

• Xen-API SDK -

Code Question

How To

• how to write a new SR - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-01/msg00154.html

Execution Error

• Introducing VDI in ISCSISR fail - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-02/msg00052.html

Xen-USERS Mailing List

Announcements

• Xen.org Weekly Newsletter Vol 10 No 4 - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-01/msg00929.html

• IntelVT - Xen Wiki suggestion - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00064.html

• Xen.org Community Mascot Voting is Open - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00077.html

General Questions

• AsteriskNOW on Xen Choppiness - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-01/msg00943.html

Execution Issues

• BUG: soft lockup - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-01/msg00949.html

• Problem with some win3k3 domUs since crash -

• DomU won't start on 3.4.2 - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00043.html

• Unable to start HVM guest on Xen-Unstable is this broken? - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00063.html

• DomU Kernel Panic with 2.6.31.6 pv_ops - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00081.html

• DomU won't start on 3.4.2 -

• gplpv_2003x64_0.11.0.188.msi has a bug in vlan environment - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00082.html

• Linux hangs during reboot on Jeremy's git kernel, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00126.html

Boot - Installation - Startup

• 64-bit xen constantly reboots on debian lenny 64-bit - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-01/msg00938.html

• Full Virtualised DomU Hang on Boot - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00010.html

• NetBSD and pygrub - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00086.html

• xen & vnc - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00089.html

• installing xen on fedora 11, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00102.html

• GPLPV or other drivers for win2k8r2? - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00099.html

Networking

• DHCP and DomUs troubles - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00014.html

• the bridge send all traffic to every vps when one vps st - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-01/msg00954.html

• set static ip in config file - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00000.html

• How do I configure Virtual machines to DHCP from network instead of Dom0 ? - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00012.html

• Error: Device 1 (vif) could not be connected. /etc/xen/scripts/vif-bridge failed - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00052.html

• Bridging in xen 3.4.2/SLES11 - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00029.html

• Multiple bridges in RHEL 5.3 - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00024.html

• private interconnect problem - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00113.html

• Ping RTT is rounded on domu, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00100.html

PCI Pass-Through

• PCI passthrough in Vanilla - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-01/msg00941.html

• PCI-Passthrough - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00031.html

• miss probing pci devices - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00124.html

High Availability Questions - Load Balancing

• Xen Remus and linux-ha - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00005.html

Live Migration

Live CD

Storage/Disk/Memory

• CDROM access under GPLPV - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-01/msg00942.html

• Manage tape on guest win2k3 - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00001.html

• iSCSI vs NFS - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00036.html

• shared storage manual remount ... - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00080.html

• DomU not reporting correct ram size, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00093.html

Compilation Questions

How To Questions

• PF_RING + Xen - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00059.html

• tool to test diskio - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00109.html

Design Questions

• OpenSolaris as Dom0 - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00038.html

• Understanding HVM DomU Isolation - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00103.html

Performance

Xen Cloud Platform

• question about xen cloud configuration - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00006.html

• [XCP] API documentation - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00050.html

• XCP shared storage with xiotech san - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00069.html

• Newbie question - Starting a VM - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00066.html

• xcp-iscsi howto - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-02/msg00106.html

Xen Client Issues