HEADS UP: Imported Xen 4.7 and blkback changes

[Marcin Cieslak]

On Fri, 3 Jun 2016, Roger Pau Monné wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> First of all, this message is only relevant to those that use FreeBSD as 
> Dom0 (host), not as a DomU (guest), so don't panic.
> 
> I've imported the latest Xen version (4.7-rc4) into the ports tree, it's 
> still not the final version, but it's quite close, so we better start 
> testing it to make sure it works fine with FreeBSD.

Thank you Roger, this is excellent. Are xen-tools-devel 4.5 now?
Looks confusing.

I have also tried building xen-tools (4.7) without python
and qemu configure reported this.

Also got this:

===>   Registering installation for xen-tools-4.7.0
(xen-tools-4.7.0) /usr/ports/sysutils/xen-tools/work/stage//usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xen/lowlevel/xc.so - required shared library libxenctrl.so.4.5 not found
(xen-tools-4.7.0) /usr/ports/sysutils/xen-tools/work/stage//usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xen/lowlevel/xc.so - required shared library libxenguest.so.4.5 not found
(xen-tools-4.7.0) /usr/ports/sysutils/xen-tools/work/stage//usr/local/lib/xen/bin/qemu-system-i386 - required shared library libxenctrl.so.4.5 not found
(xen-tools-4.7.0) /usr/ports/sysutils/xen-tools/work/stage//usr/local/lib/xen/bin/qemu-system-i386 - required shared library libxenguest.so.4.5 not found
Installing xen-tools-4.7.0...

Adding Python manually and rebuilding seems to fix those issues.

It seems to work, I only wish we've had ports from https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192012 committed...

Marcin