Bugzilla 1680: Xend fails to start if /var/lib/xend/state/*.xml are empty
which I get often when replacing the Xen hypervisor with a newer version.
This can be easily be reproduced under Fedora Core 16 by installing
xen RPMs and then replacing the xen.gz with a newer version.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Low <shinji@pikopiko.org>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
In the method xen.xend.XendStateStore.XendStateStore.load_state and
xen.xend.XendStateStore.XendStateStore.save_state the minidom objects
used to load/save the current state of a device type, can't be freed
by the python garbage collector after all references to the top node
are cleared, because of cyclic references between the DOM nodes. So
memory usage of xend increases after calling these methods. To solve
this problem, the unlink() method must be called for a minidom object
before the last reference to the top node is cleared (see python
docs). This breaks the cyclic references, so the garbage collector can
free these objects.
Signed-off-by: juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Keir Fraser
Tom Wilkie
Ewan Mellor
Alastair Tse