On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> wrote:

On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 11:04 -0400, Gordon McLellan wrote:
> Greetings,
>

Hi,

> Is anyone running FC 17 beta as a Dom0 / DomU on Xen 4, on Sandy
> Bridge hardware?
>

Not yet... I'm planning to do so ASAP.

> I've been trying and trying to get xen going on my new sandy-e system
> and have gotten the hypervisor to load but the dom0 kernel panics
> during boot.
>
>
> I dug up an old copy of FC 15, will try my luck there next.
>

Never tried FC15 either, but just installing the xen packages in FC16
brought up a working virtualization environment every time I tried. I'll
give it a go again (no, I don't have them installed right now) and let
you know if that still works for me.

Regards,
Dario

Dario,

Yes, 16 is what I meant to type (oops). I did a minimal install, and without updating, did a yum install xen, tweaked around with grub.cfg and the network-scripts a little and boom hypervisor and dom0 up and running, with VT-d support.

Tried the same thing with 17 again and could not get the dom0 kernel to boot successfully.

I'm going to buy a serial card for this machine so I can do the serial console on Xen and get more information. But so far, so good!

Gordon