[Libvir] Bug with libvirt in Xen 3.0.1?

[pvetere at redhat.com]

Quoting Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com>:

> On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 09:16:16AM -0400, pvetere at redhat.com wrote:
>> Hi, I think I may have found a bug in libvirt and wanted see what people
>> thought.  I'm using the stock FC5 installation at the moment (with 
>> xen 3.0.1),
>> and the newest version of libvirt.  I am noticing that with xen 
>> 3.0.1 and newer
>> versions of libvirt, getDomainsID() seems to return bogus values.
<snip>
>> After some digging around in the code, I believe that libvirt is incorrectly
>> identifying the hypervisor as being "old" in 
>> xen_internal.c:xenHypervisorInit,
>> and is therefore passing the incorrect parameter structure into the 
>> hypervisor
>> when it makes its ioctl in xen_internal.c:xenHypervisorListDomains.
>
>  I assume it's an i386 platform, because the ABI breakage should not
> show up on x86_64.

Yes, that's correct; it's an i386 platform.

>
>> I've tried this same test on a system running xen 3.0.2, and as I expected
>> everything works fine.  So, there must be something different about 
>> xen 3.0.1
>> that libvirt is not accounting for.
>
>  That's possible. If you still have that setup around, could you rerun
> virsh (as root ) under gdb and put a breakpoint in xenHypervisorInit
> and see what's happening in the first hypervisor call values of hc.op and
> cmd, and return value (hv_version). Then what's happen in the second call
> (is it failing too ?) in that same routine.

Sure, I can do this.  I'll let you know what I find later on today.

Pete