Re: Getting GUI to work with Xen PVMs

[Priya <pbhat@acis.ufl.edu>]

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Thanks for responding, Dan!

Here is the (partial) output of "xm info":
---

-bash-3.2$ sudo /usr/sbin/xm info

Password:

release                : 2.6.18-xen

version                : #1 SMP Sat Mar 1 14:47:04 EST 2008

machine                : i686

nr_cpus                : 2

nr_nodes               : 1

sockets_per_node       : 2

cores_per_socket       : 1

threads_per_core       : 1

cpu_mhz                : 3200

hw_caps                : bfebfbff:20000000:00000000:00000180:0000641d

total_memory           : 4095

free_memory            : 0

xen_major              : 3

xen_minor              : 1

xen_extra              : .0

xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_32p

xen_scheduler          : credit

xen_pagesize           : 4096

platform_params        : virt_start=0xf5800000

xen_changeset          : unavailable

cc_compiler            : gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)

cc_compile_by          : root

cc_compile_date        : Sat Mar  1 13:44:07 EST 2008

xend_config_format     : 4


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You are right. This thing is ancient. I do not have root privileges on this
machine and cannot change the xen-version. Do you think I could perhaps work
around this problem somehow! :-(

All I need to do for the time being is to get the GUI based application to
work via the network really.

Cheers

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com
> wrote:

>  Use “xm info” in dom0 to find out the Xen version.  If it is indeed Xen
> 3.0, that is so ancient that recent kernels are bound to have some problems.
>
>
>
> *From:* Priya [mailto:pbhat@acis.ufl.edu]
> *Sent:* Monday, July 19, 2010 4:43 PM
> *To:* xen-users@lists.xensource.com; xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
> *Subject:* [Xen-devel] Getting GUI to work with Xen PVMs
>
>
>
> All,
>
> I am working with Xen 3.0 (I think, though can someone please tell me how I
> could verify this!)
>
>
>
> I want to install a couple of PVM which I could access with a X-terminal.
> (I don't know if I am using the correct terminology here, so I will
> elaborate: I want to start my PVM, ssh to them using the -X option [ssh -X
> user@pvm_ip] from another machine, and be able to run a command like
> "glxgears", so that a pop up window showing the gears-animation shows up and
> the console prints the FPS information).
>
>
>
> At this point, I already have a PVM installed running a guest OS with
> kernel 2.6.24-16-xen. However when I try to install "nvidia-glx" for the
> glxgears API I get the following error:
>
>
>
> ----------------
>
>   root@xen13:~# sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx
>
>   Reading package lists... Done
>
>   Building dependency tree
>
>   Reading state information... Done
>
>   The following extra packages will be installed:
>
>     binutils-static cpp cpp-4.2 libdrm2 libfontenc1 libfreetype6
> libgl1-mesa-glx
>
>     libglu1-mesa libhal1 libice6 libpixman-1-0 libsm6 libx11-6 libx11-data
>
>     libxau6 libxaw7 libxcb-xlib0 libxcb1 libxdamage1 libxdmcp6 libxext6
>
>     libxfixes3 libxfont1 libxi6 libxkbfile1 libxmu6 libxpm4 libxt6
> libxxf86vm1
>
>     linux-restricted-modules-common mdetect x11-xkb-utils xserver-xorg
>
>     xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev
>
>     xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse
> xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
>
>     xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse xserver-xorg-input-wacom
>
>   Suggested packages:
>
>     cpp-doc gcc-4.2-locales libfreetype6-dev nvidia-kernel-source
>
>     nvidia-settings xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalable gsynaptics
>
>     ksynaptics qsynaptics wacom-tools
>
>   Recommended packages:
>
>     displayconfig-gtk libgl1-mesa-dri xfonts-base
>
>   The following NEW packages will be installed:
>
>     binutils-static cpp cpp-4.2 libdrm2 libfontenc1 libfreetype6
> libgl1-mesa-glx
>
>     libglu1-mesa libhal1 libice6 libpixman-1-0 libsm6 libx11-6 libx11-data
>
>     libxau6 libxaw7 libxcb-xlib0 libxcb1 libxdamage1 libxdmcp6 libxext6
>
>     libxfixes3 libxfont1 libxi6 libxkbfile1 libxmu6 libxpm4 libxt6
> libxxf86vm1
>
>     linux-restricted-modules-common mdetect nvidia-glx x11-xkb-utils
>
>     xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all
>
>     xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-kbd
> xserver-xorg-input-mouse
>
>     xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
>
>     xserver-xorg-input-wacom
>
>   0 upgraded, 42 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>
>   7 not fully installed or removed.
>
>   Need to get 0B/14.4MB of archives.
>
>   After this operation, 41.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
>
>   Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
>
>   Extracting templates from packages: 100%
>
>   Preconfiguring packages ...
>
>   Setting up x11-common (1:7.3+10ubuntu10.2) ...
>
>   Segmentation fault
>
>   dpkg: error processing x11-common (--configure):
>
>    subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
>
>   Errors were encountered while processing:
>
>    x11-common
>
>   E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
>
>
> -------------------
>
>
>
>  I Googled this error and found a number of suggestions<http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=318206>.
> But all the suggested work-arounds lead me to this same error. What am I
> missing here?
>
>
>
> Do I indeed need to install nvidia-glx on my PVM ?
>
> Any advice would be helpful!
>
> --
>
> Priya Bhat
>
>
>
>
>



-- 
Priya Bhat

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