Bug 148486 – app-emulation/xen-tools: xend init script should test for xen enabled kernel

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Christian Hesse 2006-09-21 03:48:52 UTC]

Hello everybody,

I added xend to my default runlevel. Now every time I boot my system with a kernel that is not xen enabled I get really ugly output. Would be nice to have the xend init script check if the kernel has Xen support.

[Comment 1 Christian Hesse 2006-09-21 03:49:41 UTC]

Created attachment 97622 [details, diff]
patch to check if kernel is Xen enabled

[Comment 2 Robert S 2006-09-22 04:20:39 UTC]

I fixed this by creating a new runlevel called "xen" which starts the xen and xendomains daemons.  It also switches to the xorg-x11 opengl interface because you can't install the nvidia driver with a xen kernel.  I choose the xen or non-xen kernel using grub.  I think its better this way.

[Comment 3 Andrew Ross (RETIRED) 2006-09-22 08:01:25 UTC]

While a Xen-specific runlevel is the preferred way of dealing with this, there's no reason why we shouldn't make /etc/init.d/xend behave in a more Gentoo-like way (ie. avoiding the python stack traces). The iptables init.d script does a similar check for kernel-level support, which I'm taking as a precedent.

[Comment 4 Andrew Ross (RETIRED) 2006-10-13 17:06:41 UTC]

Fixed in app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4, thanks.