From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: Re: Virtualization Test Day for F16 and Xen Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:08:41 -0400 Message-ID: <20110922190841.GB16678@phenom.oracle.com> References: <20110914142522.GA16956@phenom.oracle.com> <20110914144539.GR12984@reaktio.net> <20110915151041.GA4453@imp.local> <1316126290.5689.3.camel@adam> <20110916084308.GD884@phenom.oracle.com> <4E77A4EC.9080600@goop.org> <20110921200348.GA31078@phenom.oracle.com> <4E7A6947.5090205@goop.org> <20110921225957.GA17396@phenom.oracle.com> <20110922094757.GB12984@reaktio.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110922094757.GB12984@reaktio.net> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?= Cc: Development discussions related to Fedora , xen@lists.fedoraproject.org, Jeremy Fitzhardinge , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Stefano Stabellini , lars.kurth@xen.org, virt@lists.fedoraproject.org, xen-users@lists.xensource.com, Adam Williamson List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:47:57PM +0300, Pasi K=E4rkk=E4inen 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 rel= eases to > > > >>>> boot as guests on Xen hosts: > > > >>>> > > > >>>> "The release must boot successfully as a virtual guest in a si= tuation > > > >>>> where the virtual host is running a supported Xen implementati= on" > > > >>>> > > > >>>> I really don't have much knowledge of Xen and haven't followed= this > > > >>>> discussion closely, but do any currently-known bugs prevent th= is? 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. > > >=20 > > > 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 go= es. > > >=20 > > > 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... > >=20 > > Can you open a BZ at bugzilla.redhat.com please? > >=20 >=20 > Also should we change the default xen-platform-pci to =3Dy 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.