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Re: [Xen-devel] xl: Enable 'xl console' in 'x86_64'

To: Yu Zhiguo <yuzg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] xl: Enable 'xl console' in 'x86_64'
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:40:38 -0700
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On 04/28/2010 03:29 AM, Yu Zhiguo wrote:
> 'xl console' cannot be used on arch 'x86_64',
> because the path of 'xenconsole' is wrong.
> Fix this bug.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yu Zhiguo <yuzg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff -r c87ec146229a -r bb537e15d23a tools/libxl/libxl.c
> --- a/tools/libxl/libxl.c     Fri Apr 23 15:04:26 2010 +0100
> +++ b/tools/libxl/libxl.c     Thu Apr 29 02:23:21 2010 +0800
> @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
>  #include <stdint.h>
>  #include <inttypes.h>
>  #include <assert.h>
> +#include <sys/utsname.h>
>  
>  #include "libxl.h"
>  #include "libxl_utils.h"
> @@ -741,8 +742,13 @@
>  {
>      struct stat st;
>      const char *XENCONSOLE = "/usr/lib/xen/bin/xenconsole";
> +    struct utsname utsbuf;
>      char *cmd;
>  
> +    if (uname(&utsbuf) != -1) {
> +        if (!strcmp(utsbuf.machine, "x86_64") || !strcmp(utsbuf.machine, 
> "ia64"))
> +            XENCONSOLE = "/usr/lib64/xen/bin/xenconsole";
> +    }
>   

Won't this fail if the tools were build 32bit, but being run on a 64bit
machine?  Why not just look in both places?  Or fix the xenconsole to
install in /usr/lib regardless of architecture (it isn't a library, so
nothing will care about its architecture).

    J

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