Another bug I want to keep track of:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=611407

This one refers to the breakage of the —ip=auto in xen-create-image from xen-tools 4.2-1. Some parameter checking was implemented, and the value if the —ip option is supposed to resemble an IPv4 address (but the literal string “auto” obviously doesn’t look like an IPv4 address).

UPDATE: fixed in 4.2.1-1. Yay! Unfortunately, it’s not in Debian squeeze, it’s in unstable. To get it, but still prefer stable packages for everything else:

echo 'deb http://debian.mirror.iweb.com/debian unstable main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
echo 'APT::Default-Release "stable" >> /etc/apt/apt.conf
apt-get update
apt-get install -t unstable xen-tools