Re: [Fedora-xen] [Xen-devel] Re: Virtualization Test Day for F16 and Xen
>> So, there's a meta-point here: we currently
'require' Beta releases to
>> boot as guests on Xen hosts:
>>
>> "The release must boot successfully as a virtual guest in a situation
>> where the virtual host is running a supported Xen implementation"
>>
>> I really don't have much knowledge of Xen and haven't followed this
>> discussion closely, but do any currently-known bugs prevent this? If so,
>> please flag them up so they can be considered as Beta blockers...thanks!
I filled Bug 740378 - F16: Can't use keyboard when installing F16-Alpha under Xen
(regression) as guest
which is pretty descripting what is below.
Also adding in Jeremy's workaround in it.
Besides that, there is also
738085 - Patch to reduce spurious Xen entries in grub menu
which has a patch to fix the grub2 menu-thingy..
> Somehow the xen-kbdfront driver is not included in the initrd
image
> (I think) - and we end with anaconda but can't type anything. I've been
trying
> to figure out how to inject said module in the install initrd to see if that is
> really the problem but running in roadblocks (like xz 5.1.1alpha or 5.0.3 complains
> about corrupt image, or I've no idea how to make driver disks).
I saw the same thing and worked around it by booting with "vnc
lang=en_US.UTF-8 keymap=us" which eliminiates the need to enter anything
before it starts X on a vnc server. But it doesn't really address the
original problem.
I spent last Friday trying to get it to do an HVM install, but that
seemed to be very much a Xen problem. It wouldn't accept keyboard input
or find its emulated devices properly until I added "acpi=off", or set
"acpi=0" in the Xen config. But even then it refused to see my HD
image, even though the BIOS could list it.
I got stuck at that point, and am now (successfully) doing a PV install
(with the above workaround).