Re: Re: Virtualization Test Day for F16 and Xen

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:47:57PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 06:59:57PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 03:46:31PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > > On 09/21/2011 01:03 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > >>>> So, there's a meta-point here: we currently 'require' Beta releases to
> > > >>>> boot as guests on Xen hosts:
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> "The release must boot successfully as a virtual guest in a situation
> > > >>>> where the virtual host is running a supported Xen implementation"
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> I really don't have much knowledge of Xen and haven't followed this
> > > >>>> discussion closely, but do any currently-known bugs prevent this? If so,
> > > >>>> please flag them up so they can be considered as Beta blockers...thanks!
> > > > I filled Bug 740378 - F16: Can't use keyboard when installing F16-Alpha under Xen (regression) as guest
> > > > which is pretty descripting what is below.
> > > >
> > > > Also adding in Jeremy's workaround in it.
> > > 
> > > Though I couldn't repro the general problems I was having - I later did
> > > a clean F14 install with no problems.  So I don't really know what's
> > > going on here; I might try another F16 hvm install to see how it goes.
> > > 
> > > But there is a bona-fide bug that F16 doesn't include xen-platform-pci
> > > by default in its initramfs, so it ends up unplugging its emulated
> > > devices without discovering the PV ones to replace them...
> > 
> > Can you open a BZ at bugzilla.redhat.com please?
> > 
> 
> Also should we change the default xen-platform-pci to =y in upstream Linux
> .config to avoid having problems with every distro ?

Or some form of it. Stefano is working to provide a patch that will latch
on CONFIG_PVONHVM and make that work.