From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] [Xen-devel] Re: Virtualization Test Day for F16 and Xen Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:46:31 -0700 Message-ID: <4E7A6947.5090205@goop.org> References: <20110914112552.GP12984@reaktio.net> <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110921200348.GA31078@phenom.oracle.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org Errors-To: xen-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Development discussions related to Fedora , xen@lists.fedoraproject.org, 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 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... > Besides that, there is also > 738085 - Patch to reduce spurious Xen entries in grub menu > > which has a patch to fix the grub2 menu-thingy.. I'd noticed that - though at present I haven't managed to get F16 Xen to boot in an hvm domain (it hangs when setting up interrupts in the nested dom0). J