Bug 211928
| Summary: | No way to specific VNC graphics & use a bootloader in SEXPR protocol | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Daniel Berrangé <berrange> | ||||
| Component: | xen | Assignee: | Daniel Berrangé <berrange> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 5.0 | CC: | jturner, xen-maint | ||||
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| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2007-01-04 19:00:00 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 211671, 211909 | ||||||
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Created attachment 139264 [details]
Make VNC graphics & bootloader play nice
This patch makes xend use the bootloader in cases where an (image...) block is
set but with no (kernel) nested-block. This allows VNC to play nice with
bootloaders.
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in release. Witholding QE ack until we get resolution on the inactive domain management. And on that note, I thought we were feature complete. The new generation paravirt framebuffer patches included in recent RHEL-5 xen packages completely changed the config file format. As such the problem described in this bug no longer exists. |
Description of problem: The VNC graphics configuration option for paravirt guests is within the (image (linux ...)) part of the SEXPR given to XenD. When creating guests using an explicit kernel & initrd, this works fine. If using a bootloader such as pygrub though, there is no (image) block specified at all, instead a (bootloader ...) block is used. If one specifies both a (bootloader) and (image) block, XenD will only look at the (image) block and thus not run the bootloader. This makes it impossible to create a guest domain using VNC & a bootloader from libvirt. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xen-3.0.3-2.el5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Feed a piece of SEXPR data to XenD such as (vm (name 'XenGuest1') (memory 214) (maxmem 214) (vcpus 1) (uuid '06c1f7981c224ba0f729a9ce18a46de5') (bootloader '/usr/bin/pygrub') (on_poweroff 'destroy') (on_reboot 'restart') (on_crash 'restart') (image (linux (vnc 1))) (device (vbd (dev 'xvda')(uname 'phy:/dev/HostVG/XenGuest1')(mode 'w'))) (device (vif (mac '00:16:3e:1e:7c:a6')(bridge 'xenbr0')(script 'vif-bridge'))) ) 2. 3. Actual results: Xend complains about missing kernel & refuses to create the domain Expected results: Xend runs the bootloader to extract the kernel & creates a domain with VNC active Additional info: