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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Anthony Perard <anthony.perard@citrix.com>,
	Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	Wei Liu <Wei.Liu2@citrix.com>,
	George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: 4.7 qemu regression: HVM guests fail to boot from xvda
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 11:56:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160608155616.GH17027@char.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160608111303.GA23299@aepfle.de>

On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 01:13:03PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, George Dunlap wrote:
> 
> > We definitely don't want to be putting this new stuff we're discussing
> > in 4.7.0.  I'd be OK with reverting the original change for the release.
> 
> I'm fine with delaying a change to address the (theoretical) breakage
> introduced by c0c099d.
> 
> What I just learned a few minutes ago is the fact that c0c099d went
> silently into our 4.5 and 4.4 based packages along with XSA-142 fa30003.
> That happend already end of last year. Since I heard no reports about
> non-booting HVM guest after applying the dom0 updates I think its safe

There were. Boris and I reported it a couple of times.

Ah, you meant via internal SuSE bugs!

> to assume that there are very few (if any) domU.cfg outthere which have
> vdev=xvda.

Oracle by default in their product (OVS) has that hard-coded for all
guest configurations it creates. Granted we are still using Xend
and migrating a guest from xm to xl so we have some other issues
to address as well.

> 
> So from this perspective its enough to mention the impact of c0c099d in
> the 4.7 release-note.
> 
> Olaf
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-08 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-30 20:42 4.7 qemu regression: HVM guests fail to boot from xvda Olaf Hering
2016-05-31 11:02 ` George Dunlap
2016-05-31 11:16   ` Olaf Hering
2016-05-31 11:32     ` George Dunlap
2016-05-31 11:41       ` Olaf Hering
2016-05-31 12:00         ` George Dunlap
2016-05-31 12:04           ` Olaf Hering
2016-06-01 13:17             ` Olaf Hering
2016-06-01 21:40               ` Olaf Hering
2016-06-02 11:49                 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-02 12:06                   ` Olaf Hering
2016-05-31 12:15           ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-01  9:48           ` Wei Liu
2016-06-01 13:34             ` Olaf Hering
2016-06-01 14:11               ` Wei Liu
2016-06-01 14:32                 ` Olaf Hering
2016-06-01 15:36           ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-03 10:13             ` George Dunlap
2016-06-03 11:20               ` Olaf Hering
2016-06-03 11:27                 ` George Dunlap
2016-06-03 11:45                   ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-06 10:39                     ` George Dunlap
2016-06-06 10:52                       ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-06 11:43                         ` George Dunlap
2016-06-06 12:49                     ` George Dunlap
2016-06-07 14:08                     ` George Dunlap
2016-06-07 14:27                       ` Olaf Hering
2016-06-08 10:17                       ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-07 19:06                     ` Olaf Hering
2016-06-08 10:18                       ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-08 10:23                         ` George Dunlap
2016-06-08 10:30                           ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-08 10:49                             ` George Dunlap
2016-06-08 11:13                               ` Olaf Hering
2016-06-08 15:56                                 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2016-06-03 11:50                   ` Olaf Hering
2016-05-31 12:10       ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-31 13:41         ` George Dunlap
2016-05-31 14:10           ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-31 16:15     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-06-08 11:38 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-08 12:04   ` Olaf Hering
2016-06-08 12:09     ` Wei Liu

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