Daily Xen Builds

[David F Barrera <dfbp@us.ibm.com>]

August 15, 2005 using latest HG source pull:
changeset:   6171:5311d81c1e8e35eee40b76e117ab4c596ed7d409
tag:         tip
user:        iap10@firebug.cl.cam.ac.uk
date:        Mon Aug 15 03:55:11 2005
summary:     Add a few options to the Linux x86_64 domU config.
          
1) x86_32 (no PAE support)

-- SLES 9 SP2 and RHEL 4 on IBM xSeries 305s (512M RAM) and 235 (1G RAM)
* Builds and boots without problems on SLES9 SP2
* Able to build functional DomUs, networking and all
* Running LTP runalltests.sh on both dom0 and domU
* ISSUE(S):


2) x86_32p (PAE)

-- SLES 9 SP2 and RHEL 4 on IBM xSeries 305s (512M RAM) and 235 (1G RAM)
* The SLES 9 SP2 boxes FAILED TO BOOT Dom0 when built with PAE
	* Two (2) machines exhibiting this problem
	* Last message on console is the 'xen memory scrubbing' line
* The RHEL 4 box builds and boots without problems with PAE 
	* Able to build functional DomUs, networking and all
	* Running LTP runalltests.sh on both dom0 and domU
* ISSUE(S):  
        * Reopening Bugzilla #122 -Dom0 fails to boot on SLES 9 machines
        compiled with x86 PAE mode ON

3) x86_64

-- SLES9 SP2 and FC4 on IBM HS20 EMT64 blades (1G RAM) 
* Builds and boots on SLES 9 SP2
* Problems starting xend (below)

* ISSUE(S): 

* Bugzilla #62 - Losing network when starting xend.
  * Still experiencing this problem on the SLES9 SP2 x86-64 boxes. 
  * Both SLES 9 SP2 boxes lose networking when 'xend start' is entered.
  * Problem appears worse now. The network-bridge script has been
changed recently.
* Bugzilla #161 - x86_64 - Dom0 will not boot on FC4 box
  * New issue
  * We have previously built and booted Dom0 (and DomUs) on this box


-- 
Regards,

David F Barrera
Linux Technology Center
Systems and Technology Group, IBM

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