[SRU] introduce xe-guest-utilities to 12.04, 14.04, 15.04

[Ben Howard]

[Background information]: Some xen-based public Clouds utilize the xe-guest-utilities package to perform hyper-visor based communications for boot-time discovery hostname, network configuration, etc.

[Availability]: A Ubuntu version of the upstream xe-guest-utilities package was introduced in 15.10 to support various public cloud offerings.

[Rationale]: This package enables two-way communication with some Xen-based hypervisors.

[Quality assurance]: The Ubuntu Cloud image team will look after this package.

[UI standard]: Not applicable

[Dependencies]: All dependencies are already in universe.

[Standards compliance]: No issues identified

[Maintenance]: This package will be maintained by the Ubuntu Cloud Image team.

[Ben Howard (darkmuggle-deactivatedaccount)]

This package falls under the "cloudware/hardware enablement" exception. This package is being introduced to support multiple public clouds.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Accepted xe-guest-utilities into each of precise, trusty, and vivid. Since this is a new package, regression testing is not required in order to publish this to -updates. Please do your own verification of the package's correct functioning, as appropriate, and set the verification-done tag when complete.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package xe-guest-utilities - 6.2.0-1120+dsf1-0ubuntu1~12.04.0

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xe-guest-utilities (6.2.0-1120+dsf1-0ubuntu1~12.04.0) precise; urgency=medium

  * Backport to 12.04 (LP: #1490624).

 -- Ben Howard <email address hidden> Tue, 01 Sep 2015 14:27:43 -0600

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for xe-guest-utilities has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package xe-guest-utilities - 6.2.0-1120+dsf1-0ubuntu1~14.04.0

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xe-guest-utilities (6.2.0-1120+dsf1-0ubuntu1~14.04.0) trusty; urgency=medium

  * Backport to 14.04 (LP: #1490624).

 -- Ben Howard <email address hidden> Tue, 01 Sep 2015 14:27:25 -0600

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package xe-guest-utilities - 6.2.0-1120+dsf1-0ubuntu1~15.04.0

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xe-guest-utilities (6.2.0-1120+dsf1-0ubuntu1~15.04.0) vivid; urgency=medium

  * Backport to 15.04 (LP: #1490624).

 -- Ben Howard <email address hidden> Tue, 01 Sep 2015 14:27:29 -0600

[Malte S. Stretz (mss)]

Unfortunately due to the dependency on cloud-init did the introduction of this package break a server which had already the vanilla XenServer xe-guest-utilities installed. I opened bug 1496940 on this issue.

[Ben Howard (darkmuggle-deactivatedaccount)]

For those who are "broken" due to this change, please track Bug: #1496730

HOWEVER, please note:
1. Cloud-init will reset your SSH host keys
2. After two minutes, your guest will continue to boot.

We are in the process of SRU'ing a fix, and I apologize for the error.