[Fedora-xen] 4.2.0-rc2 available to test

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 09:44:56AM -0500, W. Michael Petullo wrote:
> >> I have done a temporary build of 4.2.0-rc2 for testing which is at
> >> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4386920
> >> This also adds the efi hypervisor back in for x86_64.
>  
> > Note to other people: fedora kernels still don't have xen dom0 EFI patches included,
> > mainly because dom0 EFI patches are not yet ported to pvops or merged to upstream Linux.
> > 
> > So actually testing xen.efi hypervisor on UEFI systems is a bit tricky atm..
> > (you need to manually build a kernel based on the suse xenlinux sles11sp2 or opensuse patches).
> 
> I have tried the 4.2.0-rc packages on three machines: one with an AMD Athlon X2,
> one with an AMD FX 4170 [1], and a MacBook with a Core 2 Duo.
> 
> The first machine works fine.
> 
> The FX 4170 and MacBook are unable to load Dom0. I see Xen print its
> boot messages, but the machines spontaneously reboot before Dom0 prints
> any output.
> 
> [1] Same machine referenced at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841330
> 

So did you use the stock Fedora kernel as dom0 kernel? 

Did you capture the boot/crash logs from the two machines? 

-- Pasi