xen-tools (4.8-1) unstable; urgency=medium For security reasons (avoid risk to circumvent ASLR), recent kernels have disabled the vsyscall mapping. Unfortunately older distributions don't run and hence can't be bootstrapped without it. To enable trapping and enabling emulate calls into the fixed vsyscall address mapping and hence to run and bootstrap older Linux distributions in a chroot (as xen-tools does), you need to add "vsyscall=emulate" to the kernel commandline, e.g. by adding it to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub, then running "update-grub" afterwards and finally reboot. -- Axel Beckert Thu, 07 Feb 2019 17:40:03 +0100 xen-tools (4.4~beta1-1) unstable; urgency=low * Exported environment variables no more contain dashes ("-"). Dashes in environment variable names are from now on converted to underscores ("_") before being exported. May affect some hook or role scripts. * /usr/lib/xen-tools/ has been moved to /usr/share/xen-tools/ to properly adhere to FHS. In case you had local scripts added to /usr/lib/xen-tools/, please move them to /usr/share/xen-tools/, too and then remove /usr/lib/xen-tools/ and its left-over subdirectories which all should be empty at that point, i.e. "rmdir -p /usr/lib/xen-tools/*" should do the trick. -- Axel Beckert Fri, 23 Aug 2013 19:01:16 +0200 xen-tools (4.2~rc1-1) unstable; urgency=low By default, xen-create-image now generates a random root password and displays it as plain text at the end of the DomU generation process. Use --genpass=0 and --passwd=1 to interactively set a root password without the password being displayed. -- Axel Beckert Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:14:42 +0200 xen-tools (4.2~beta1-1) unstable; urgency=low If the DomU hangs with "Waiting for root file system" despite /dev/xvd* is used as disk device, adding "xen-blkfront" to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and running "update-initramfs -u" afterwards may help. If the Dom0 is a Debian or Ubuntu, the distribution and suite for DomUs defaults to the distribution and suite the Dom0 is running. Otherwise Debian DomUs get "stable" and Ubuntu "lucid" by default. Default Debian/Ubuntu mirror is now determined by looking into /etc/apt/sources.list (if it exists) and taking the first entry with path ending in /debian/ there. -- Axel Beckert Sun, 30 May 2010 22:36:16 +0200