Hi Josip,
Josip Rodin wrote:
> In the meantime, the linux-modules packages went away, there's only
> linux-image-* nowadays. The script
> /usr/lib/xen-tools/debian.d/80-install-modules searches for the former,
> fails to find them, and then copies /lib/modules/$(uname -r).
... on current Linux distribution releases, yes. But we also would
like to support previous releases where possible, too.
> Switching to simply installing linux-image-$(uname -r) would be preferable,
> because:
> a) you don't want a static copy of .ko files because then will get stale,
> and the domU could have stability or security issues
Yep.
> b) you can also use pvgrub these days so you could actually need the
> kernel image itself, too
pvgrub or pygrub, yes. But also here: Backwards compatibility is
preferred.
> /usr/lib/xen-tools/debian.d/80-install-modules should therefore just
> install linux-image-`uname -r` into domU.
I must admit, I'm not sure what's really the best way. Only `uname -r`
seems not to work in all situations. We had cases where this failed.
Will think about it again, especially checking if we can't split away
the legacy support from the support for current systems. So thanks for
your suggestions anyway.
Regards, Axel
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