Re: Success with recent Xen pv_ops dom0 kernel (2.6.29-rc8)

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>]

Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> Things that are still broken:
> - dom0 VGA text console doesn't work, only serial console works
>   

OK, Gerd identified a mapping problem that probably explains the lack of 
VGA.  I haven't had a chance to cook up a fix for it yet.

> - CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y crashes the dom0 kernel sooner or later, so I'm running CONFIG_HIGHPTE=n
>   

It's possible this is related.  Well, it would be nice ;)

> Otherwise my setup consists of:
> - Fedora 10 distribution on dom0, latest updates installed
> - libvirt 0.6.1 and related packages from f10 updates-testing (earlier versions had a lot of problems)
> - F11/rawhide Xen 3.3.1-9 packages rebuilt for F10
> - New enough pv_ops dom0 kernel so it has /sys/hypervisor support for libvirt/virt-install/virt-manager
>
> Missing features:
> - blktap (tap:aio). Any plans for this? 
> - PV domU PCI-passthrough? 
>   

Yes, both are planned.  blktap is on a fairly short list (waiting for 
blktap2 to land, rather than waste time on blktap1).

I think a lot of the tricky bits PCI passthrough are already done in the 
form of the rest of the dom0 pci changes, but I haven't looked at 
pciback in detail yet.

    J