[meta-virtualization] xendomains init script from xen recipe hangs

[Philip Tricca]

On 01/24/2014 04:11 PM, Chris Patterson wrote:
> It works for me (on a slightly modified xen-image-minimal) with some
> complaints about head (-c flag not implemented in busybox) if you don't
> have coreutils installed (add coreutils to your image and that should go
> away).
> 
> Can you try it on the command line?
> 
> bash -x /etc/init.d/xendomains stop
> 
> bash -x /etc/init.d/xendomains start
> 
> Depending on what you are seeing, you may need to adjust your values in
> /etc/default/xendomains.

Oddly enough the script is blocking on the call to 'xl create --quiet
--defconfig ...'. While the script is blocked on this call, I can
background it (Ctrl+z) and connect a console to the VM that it started.
I can log into it and everything so I'm pretty convinced it started fine.

Killing off the console I can then bring the call to the xendomains
script to the foreground again. When I do this it's still blocked on the
call to 'xl create'. Creating the VM manually using xl works as
expected.  Pretty sure this isn't just a timeout issue as
'XENDOMAINS_CREATE_USLEEP' is 5 seconds by default. This seems to be
hanging indefinitely. Starting VMs is the simple case so I'm at a bit of
a loss.

Thanks,
Philip

> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Philip Tricca <flihp at twobit.us
> <mailto:flihp at twobit.us>> wrote:
> 
>     Hey Chris,
> 
>     I'm guessing you're the only one who may have tried to use this script
>     before. I've got a simple test VM I want to start on boot. The
>     xendomains script (from the xen recipe) starts my VM but then hangs for
>     what seems to be forever. Have you had luck or even tried to use this
>     script before?
> 
>     This may not even be the right tool for what I'm trying to do but it's
>     there for free so I thought I'd give it a try.
> 
>     Thanks,
>     Philip
> 
>