Xen cannot work when xenstored's tdb is corrupt. When that happens
somehow (and we've seen it happen), even reboot doesn't recover from
it. It could: there is no state in tdb that needs to be persisted
across reboots.
This patch arranges that tdb is removed before xenstored is started,
provided it doesn't already run. This is safe, because:
* xenstored cannot be restarted. If it dies, Xen's screwed until
reboot.
* /usr/sbin/xend always starts xenstored anyway.
* xenstored locks its pid-file (see write_pidfile() in
tools/xenstore/xenstored_core.c), and refuses to start when it
can't.
* My patch makes /usr/sbin/xend remove tdb iff it can lock the
pid-file. In other words, it removes tdb only when xenstored is not
running, and locks it out until it is done.
Bonus fix: it also removes stale copies of the tdb xenstored tends
to leave behind when it exits uncleanly.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
advantage that the temporary path manipulation cannot affect the main script,
and that it can be shared with other programs, such as xm-test.
Signed-off-by: Ewan Mellor <ewan@xensource.com>
- xend forwards console traffic between the running bootloader and a pty
which it writes to the store so the xenconsole client can see it.
- the xenconsole client handles the domain's console pty changing.
- xm create no longer runs the bootloader.
- pygrub gets '-i' option to explicitly request an interactive session.
- xend unlocks the domain list during bootloading so that "xm console"
can see the domain and attach to its console pty.
Signed-off-by: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xensource.com>
be under /var/log/xen instead of under /var/log directly. This has
the advantage of cleaning things up a little and also can make it
easier to restrict the permissions needed by xend.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>
and xenconsole out of /usr/libexec/xen and into one of /usr/lib/xen/bin or
/usr/lib64/xen/bin. Remove all the PATH hacking inside Xend, and rely upon
the PATH being set correctly from outside. Added an auxbin module for
handling the hacky stuff.
Replace the few /usr/bin/python bang paths with /usr/bin/env python.
Signed-off-by: Ewan Mellor <ewan@xensource.com>
1) make xenconsoled exit gracefully if xcs dies
2) daemonize xenstored before binding to xenstored socket
3) wait to close stdio in xenstored until we're ready to accept
connections (so that PID=`xenstored --output-pid` doesn't return until
it's ready to accept connections)
4) updates tools/misc/xend for these changes
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustycorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
three patches to fix a problem with Xend starting consoled. consoled
depends on xenstored to be running and xenstored is started on demand in
Xend. The patches change xenstored to manage its own pidfile, and have
xend start actually start up xenstored.
and changes xm to simply exec /usr/libexec/xen/xc_console.
I've done a pretty good amount of testing and this seems to clear up all
of the Xend console issues in bugzilla.
This is a pretty big change to Xend though with a lot of deleted code so
I'd appreciate if people more familiar with the Xend codebase could look
through it critically.
In addition to the patch, the following files are no longer used:
tools/python/xen/util/console_client.py
tools/python/xen/xend/XendConsole.py
tools/python/xen/xend/server/SrvConsole.py
tools/python/xen/xend/server/SrvConsoleDir.py
tools/python/xen/xend/server/console.py
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
When xend starts, it fires off xcs. If you're running on a slow
machine its possible that xcs started but xend didnt wait long
enough to notice. The attached patch loops several times while
waiting for xcs to come up. It seems to be working here while the
original is not (slow machine here).
From: Tim Newsham [newsham@lava.net]
Signed-off-by: ian@xensource.com
[PATCH] Make non-native python path handling a
> > Although I don't really agree with the installing of the
> > python bits to the non-native paths, I can see where it's
> > useful as long as the module ABI doesn't change if you're
> > trying to distribute binary tarballs. But with the current
> > handling it adds module lookup costs for the native path case
> > (which would be the norm) as well as prevents using
> > PYTHONPATH to look to a different location for the modules.
> >
> > The attached patch changes things so that at first, the xen
> > module is attempted to be imported from the stock paths. If
> > we get an ImportError exception, then it adds /usr/lib/python
> > to the end of the python path and imports again.
>
> Do you prefer this to just unconditionally addding /usr/lib/python to
> the end of the path rather than the front?
Slightly, but just because having /usr/lib/python in my sys.path is
ugly :-) I can look over it, though... patch doing that attached
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>
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