From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: Success with recent Xen pv_ops dom0 kernel (2.6.29-rc8) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:04:38 -0700 Message-ID: <49CA7236.4080909@goop.org> References: <20090325153405.GC24960@edu.joroinen.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090325153405.GC24960@edu.joroinen.fi> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Pasi_K=E4rkk=E4inen?= Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Pasi K=E4rkk=E4inen wrote: > Things that are still broken: > - dom0 VGA text console doesn't work, only serial console works > =20 OK, Gerd identified a mapping problem that probably explains the lack of=20 VGA. I haven't had a chance to cook up a fix for it yet. > - CONFIG_HIGHPTE=3Dy crashes the dom0 kernel sooner or later, so I'm ru= nning CONFIG_HIGHPTE=3Dn > =20 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 l= ibvirt/virt-install/virt-manager > > Missing features: > - blktap (tap:aio). Any plans for this?=20 > - PV domU PCI-passthrough?=20 > =20 Yes, both are planned. blktap is on a fairly short list (waiting for=20 blktap2 to land, rather than waste time on blktap1). I think a lot of the tricky bits PCI passthrough are already done in the=20 form of the rest of the dom0 pci changes, but I haven't looked at=20 pciback in detail yet. J