[Fedora-xen] Boot errors, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804347

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

n Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 08:59:30PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote:
> Thank you both for your response.
> 
> That's probably the bug. I was hoping to find more answers here as after I
> found that bug report.

Ok, well, the patches should appear shortly in the FC16 kernel builds (I hope?)
They were Acked-by Ingo, let me attach the patches to the BZ.

Josh, is there a specific process for those patches to appear in F16? Should
I email them to some kernel-backport at fedora.org email list?

Thanks!
> 
> @M.A Young
> I saw that fix but wasn't sure how to apply it. I'm not really sure how to
> use the special builds people mention.
> 
> 
> Do either of you know a stable platform to run Xen on? I tried Xen Cloud
> Platform but found the templates limiting. I wouldn't mind going back to
> Xen Clout Platform if I could figure out how to run config files for
> installation instead of templates. I mainly want to use the hypervisor for
> standing up test servers and desktop environments.
> 
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <
> konrad.wilk at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 05:07:23PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote:
> > > I installed Fedora 16 and then ran:
> > >
> > > sudo yum install xen
> > >
> > > Xen installed without errors and I rebooted. In the Grub2 list I selected
> > > Xen 4.1.2 and then selected the option:
> > >
> > > Fedora Linux, with Xen 4.1.2 and Linux 3.3.0-4.fc16.x86_64
> > >
> > > The boot process starts (i notice that loading ramdisk is very short) and
> > > then shortly thereafter the boot fails and the system reboots without any
> > > error.
> >
> > It wouldn't be this one:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804347
> > ?
> > >
> > > I tried checking the boot log but I'm not sure I'm looking at the right
> > > log.
> > >
> > > The only problem I see in the boot is
> > >
> > > Started SYSV: sandbox, xguest and other apps that want to use pam_names$
> > > Failed to start Xenstored - daemon managing xenstore file system
> >
> > > --
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> > > xen at lists.fedoraproject.org
> > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen
> >
> >