[Fedora-xen] [Xen-devel] Xen4.1.0 and Fedora15 Block device bug?

[Travis]

On Jul 5, 2011 9:53 AM, "Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" <konrad.wilk at oracle.com>
wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 03:05:59AM -0400, Travis wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Travis <corasian at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell at citrix.com
>wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Sat, 2011-07-02 at 05:15 +0100, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > Second part, F15's boot/config-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.x86_64 has
these
> > >> > entries:
> > >> > CONFIG_XEN_PLATFORM_PCI=m
> > >> > CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND=m
> > >> >
> > >> > So if you could add xen-platform-pci.ko and xen-blkfront.ko to the
> > >> > install initrd, you should be able to use PV drivers directly. Not
> > >> > sure what's the easiest way to do it though (maybe unpack initrd,
add
> > >> > some files, and repack it).
> > >>
> > >> Has somebody reported this as a bug against F15? Either the initrd
tool
> > >> (drakut?) should understand when xen-platform-pci is needed or it
should
> > >> be =y. It's a very small amount of code so building it in is not
> > >> unreasonable.
> > >>
> > >> Ian.
> > >>
> > >> I'm filing one now.
> > >
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=718382
>
> Anybody have some patches for it? They can be posted on the dracut mailing
list?
> Did loading those two modules in the install initrd fix the installation?

The aforementioned 'xen_emul_unplug=never' kernel arg has worked well enough
for me. I've pasted it into my kickstart files and my vms have been
installing and running fine.
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