[libvirt] [PATCH] Do not drop kernel cmdline for xen pv domains

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Jul 7 09:31:31 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 07:36:26PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> Kernel cmdline args can be passed to xen pv domains even when a
> bootloader is specified.  The current config-to-sxpr mapping
> ignores cmdline when bootloader is present.
> 
> Since the xend sub-driver is used with many xen toolstack versions,
> this patch takes conservative approach of adding an else block to
> existing !def->os.bootloader, and only appends sxpr if def->os.cmdline
> is non-NULL.
> ---
>  src/xenxs/xen_sxpr.c |    6 ++++++
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/xenxs/xen_sxpr.c b/src/xenxs/xen_sxpr.c
> index 13ca015..bd770bc 100644
> --- a/src/xenxs/xen_sxpr.c
> +++ b/src/xenxs/xen_sxpr.c
> @@ -2261,6 +2261,12 @@ xenFormatSxpr(virConnectPtr conn,
>          }
>  
>          virBufferAddLit(&buf, "))");
> +    } else {
> +        /* PV domains accept kernel cmdline args */
> +        if (def->os.cmdline) {
> +            virBufferEscapeSexpr(&buf, "(image (linux (args '%s')))",
> +                                 def->os.cmdline);
> +        }
>      }


ACK, assuming the test cases still pass - I'm surprised this
doesn't require any testcase fixes

Daniel
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