XEN Rawhide problems

[Steven Howe]

         kernel-xen-guest-2.6.12-1.9_FC5.root
         xen-3.0-0.20051021.fc5
         kernel-xen-hypervisor-2.6.12-1.9_FC5.root
    Two issues.
    One is networking. I've yet to get networking working between the
guest
    and the host. Some examples of a working networking addresses (via
    ifconfig and dmesg host/guest) would be nice. 
    At least I could feel certain I wasn't missing anything. In fact,
the
    whole XEN network documentation seems pretty week. It's just suppose
to
    "work" (very Microsoftish thinking). I will note the "getting
started
    wiki" at Redhat was useful, but needs to be updated. Redhat RPM's
    ability to install in a specific root is nice. I used that feature
to
    get the kernel-xen-guest installed in my LVM guest root. 
    Second, these version of xen have locked up my system  while
accessing
    the net from dom0 (dom1, was still not able to see the net).
    So what trace logs should I submit?
        Steven Howe

[Daniel Veillard]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 05:06:55AM -0800, Steven Howe wrote:
>      Second, these version of xen have locked up my system  while
>  accessing
>      the net from dom0 (dom1, was still not able to see the net). 
  It's likely to be the DMA problem we reported upstream and which is fixed
there, hopefully it will be fixed in the next version of kernel-xen,

Daniel

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[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 05:06 -0800, Steven Howe wrote:
>      Two issues.
>      One is networking. I've yet to get networking working between the
>  guest
>      and the host. Some examples of a working networking addresses (via
>      ifconfig and dmesg host/guest) would be nice.  
The network config in the current package isn't quite working correctly
-- there's been a lot of churn upstream on this, so I'm hoping updating
will fix it.  If not, then I'll be looking closer at it.

>  In fact, the
>      whole XEN network documentation seems pretty week. It's just
>  suppose to
>      "work" (very Microsoftish thinking). I will note the "getting
>  started
>      wiki" at Redhat was useful, but needs to be updated.  
It will be, but a lot of the stuff is being actively worked on and it's
going to be better to get to closer to a final state instead of spending
time updating for every iterative step

Jeremy