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For anyone else using Manjaro (or probably me in the future) the kernels are named differently in Manjaro. I had to apply this patch in order to get the grub menu entried to be generated correctly: diff --git a/etc/grub.d/09_xen b/etc/grub.d/09_xen index 59ac88a..3a41376 --- a/etc/grub.d/09_xen +++ b/etc/grub.d/09_xen @@ -38,11 +38,11 @@ _FUNC_GRUB_FILE_PRESENT() { case "${GRUB_PLATFORM}" in x86) - list="$(for i in "${GRUB_ROOT}"/boot/vmlinuz-linux* ; do + list="$(for i in "${GRUB_ROOT}"/boot/vmlinuz-* ; do if grub_file_is_not_garbage "${i}" && "${grub_file}" ${check} "${i}" ; then echo -n "${i} " ; fi done)" ;; *) - list="$(for i in "${GRUB_ROOT}"/boot/vmlinuz-linux* ; do + list="$(for i in "${GRUB_ROOT}"/boot/vmlinuz-* ; do if grub_file_is_not_garbage "${i}" && "${grub_file}" ${check} "${i}" ; then echo -n "${i} " ; fi done)" ;; esac

I just tried building 4.8.0-7 from a clean install-- I usually do this so I can catch missing dependencies and to control clutter. I got a build failure: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/a8c48f68b086a14407cc0067c222ce00

Thanks, specifying the seabios file in the PKGBUILD as you suggested worked!

@jsteel: I think it's a mistake in the PKGBUILD. It should be: --with-system-seabios=/usr/share/qemu/bios-256k.bin (so with the path to SeaBIOS specified) There should be a path as well for OVMF, but I just realize the package change recently so I don't know if it's going to work with Xen.

After updating from 4.8.0-4 to 4.8.0-5 I installed seabios but I get an error when booting a domU: libxl: error: libxl_dom.c:892:libxl__load_hvm_firmware_module: failed to read BIOS file: No such file or directory I've gone back to 4.8.0-4 for now. Any idea what else is needed apart from installing seabios for non-UEFI systems now? Thanks.

Hitting repeated issues building this when downloading ovmf: -> Cloning ovmf git repo... Cloning into bare repository '/tmp/yaourt-tmp-jonny/aur-xen/ovmf'... remote: Counting objects: 240383, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (59223/59223), done. remote: Total 240383 (delta 184842), reused 229977 (delta 174449) Receiving objects: 100% (240383/240383), 225.31 MiB | 259.00 KiB/s, done. fatal: unable to open /tmp/yaourt-tmp-jonny/aur-xen/ovmf/objects/pack/tmp_pack_0lHJ2u: No such file or directory fatal: index-pack failed ==> ERROR: Failure while downloading ovmf git repo Aborting... ==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build xen. ==> Restart building xen ? [y/N] ==> ---------------------------- Tried removing ovmf from the PKGBUILD (removed all lines referring to ovmf except for the 'optDepends' entry) and then checksum validations fail, but with no file mentioned. And yes I did remove all the ovmf entries! Is anyone else getting this?

Bumped to 4.8.0-5. This version adds XSA-211, splits out SeaBIOS and OVMF and disables Werror (hopefully).

I'd be fine with that.

So what do you guys think about using the system's OVMF and SeaBios? Apart from faster build times because we don't need to build them ourselfs, we also prevent errors like the one of @maldo. Once this is decided, I will push out a new PKGBUILD with the --disable-werror patch and possibly the new SeaBIOS/OVMF.

@das_j @badboy @JohnTh @tony_42 I am able to reproduce the makedev issue... and am running in further problems with ovmf ... any leads/ideas? my system: naked arch with base-devel & multilib-devel (multilib enabled) approach: sudo pacman -Syu git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/xen.git makepkg -si ... public key issue with xen4.8.0 makepkg -si --skippgpcheck ... makedev issue tap-ctl-allocate.c: In function 'tap_ctl_make_device': tap-ctl-allocate.c:109:13: error: In the GNU C Library, "makedev" is defined by <sys/sysmacros.h>. For historical compatibility, it is currently defined by <sys/types.h> as well, but we plan to remove this soon. To use "makedev", include <sys/sysmacros.h> directly. If you did not intend to use a system-defined macro "makedev", you should undefine it after including <sys/types.h>. [-Werror] err = mknod(devname, perm, makedev(major, minor)); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ cc1: all warnings being treated as errors applying workaround of tony_42 build() { ... --with-extra-qemuu-configure-args="--disable-bluez --disable-gtk --enable-spice --enable-usb-redir --disable-werror" \ ... make LANG=C PYTHON=python2 APPEND_CFLAGS=-Wno-error dist } makepkg -si --skippgpcheck g/Library/BaseUefiCpuLib/X64/InitializeFpu.nasm > /home/rnet-master/xenbuild/xen/src/xen-4.8.0/tools/firmware/ovmf-dir-remote/Build/OvmfX64/RELEASE_GCC44/X64/UefiCpuPkg/Library/BaseUefiCpuLib/BaseUefiCpuLib/OUTPUT/X64/InitializeFpu.i /home/rnet-master/xenbuild/xen/src/xen-4.8.0/tools/firmware/ovmf-dir-remote/MdePkg/Library/PeiServicesTablePointerLibIdt/PeiServicesTablePointer.c: In function 'MigratePeiServicesTablePointer': /home/rnet-master/xenbuild/xen/src/xen-4.8.0/tools/firmware/ovmf-dir-remote/MdePkg/Library/PeiServicesTablePointerLibIdt/PeiServicesTablePointer.c:100:26: error: variable 'Status' set but not used [-Werror=unused-but-set-variable] EFI_STATUS Status; ^~~~~~ /home/rnet-master/xenbuild/xen/src/xen-4.8.0/tools/firmware/ovmf-dir-remote/MdePkg/Library/PeiHobLib/HobLib.c: In function 'GetHobList': /home/rnet-master/xenbuild/xen/src/xen-4.8.0/tools/firmware/ovmf-dir-remote/MdePkg/Library/PeiHobLib/HobLib.c:46:25: error: variable 'Status' set but not used [-Werror=unused-but-set-variable] EFI_STATUS Status; ^~~~~~ /home/rnet-master/xenbuild/xen/src/xen-4.8.0/tools/firmware/ovmf-dir-remote/MdePkg/Library/PeiHobLib/HobLib.c: In function 'GetBootModeHob': /home/rnet-master/xenbuild/xen/src/xen-4.8.0/tools/firmware/ovmf-dir-remote/MdePkg/Library/PeiHobLib/HobLib.c:212:26: error: variable 'Status' set but not used [-Werror=unused-but-set-variable] EFI_STATUS Status; ^~~~~~ cc1: all warnings being treated as errors make[7]: *** [GNUmakefile:315: /home/rnet-master/xenbuild/xen/src/xen-4.8.0/tools/firmware/ovmf-dir-remote/Build/OvmfX64/RELEASE_GCC44/X64/MdePkg/Library/PeiServicesTablePointerLibIdt/PeiServicesTablePointerLibIdt/OUTPUT/PeiServicesTablePointer.obj] Error 1 make[7]: Leaving directory '/home/rnet-master/xenbuild/xen/src/xen-4.8.0/tools/firmware/ovmf-dir-remote/Build/OvmfX64/RELEASE_GCC44/X64/MdePkg/Library/PeiServicesTablePointerLibIdt/PeiServicesTablePointerLibIdt' build.py... : error 7000: Failed to execute command make tbuild [/home/rnet-master/xenbuild/xen/src/xen-4.8.0/tools/firmware/ovmf-dir-remote/Build/OvmfX64/RELEASE_GCC44/X64/MdePkg/Library/PeiServicesTablePointerLibIdt/PeiServicesTablePointerLibIdt] build.py... : error 7000: Failed to execute command make tbuild [/home/rnet-master/xenbuild/xen/src/xen-4.8.0/tools/firmware/ovmf-dir-remote/Build/OvmfX64/RELEASE_GCC44/X64/MdePkg/Library/PeiHobLib/PeiHobLib] build.py... : error F002: Failed to build module /home/rnet-master/xenbuild/xen/src/xen-4.8.0/tools/firmware/ovmf-dir-remote/MdePkg/Library/PeiServicesTablePointerLibIdt/PeiServicesTablePointerLibIdt.inf [X64, GCC44, RELEASE] - Failed - Build end time: 09:48:44, Mar.19 2017 Build total time: 00:00:10 make[6]: *** [Makefile:19: build] Error 1 make[6]: Leaving directory '/home/rnet-master/xenbuild/xen/src/xen-4.8.0/tools/firmware/ovmf-dir-remote' make[5]: *** [/home/rnet-master/xenbuild/xen/src/xen-4.8.0/tools/firmware/../../tools/Rules.mk:218: subdir-all-ovmf-dir] Error 2