Fedora9 and HP ML350

[Alroger L. Gomes F.]

Hello everyone.
I've just installed Fedora9, on a HP Proliant Server ML350 with 
SmartArray E200i (cciss driver), hoping to use the latest Xen features.
When I boot into the kernel-xen, it gets up to the following line and 
reboots itself in an endless loop.
XEN is relinquishing VGA console

It does not generate any output on /var/log/messages nor /var/log/xen/*.

Any ideas?

-- 
Alroger Luiz Gomes Filho
SDEV - Smart Developments
http://www.sdev.com
http://cafe-ti.blog.br

So little time, so many systems . . .

[itamar]

adiciona a linha noreboot na frente da linha do kernel e envia a 
mensagem de erro pra gente analisar.


Alroger L. Gomes F. wrote:
>  Hello everyone.
>  I've just installed Fedora9, on a HP Proliant Server ML350 with 
>  SmartArray E200i (cciss driver), hoping to use the latest Xen features.
>  When I boot into the kernel-xen, it gets up to the following line and 
>  reboots itself in an endless loop.
>  XEN is relinquishing VGA console
>
>  It does not generate any output on /var/log/messages nor /var/log/xen/*.
>
>  Any ideas?
>

[Brian A. Seklecki]

On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 16:26 -0300, Alroger L. Gomes F. wrote:
>  When I boot into the kernel-xen, it gets up to the following line and
>  
We need to see your grub.conf / /grug/boot.lst ~BAS

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 04:26:59PM -0300, Alroger L. Gomes F. wrote:
>  Hello everyone.
>  I've just installed Fedora9, on a HP Proliant Server ML350 with 
>  SmartArray E200i (cciss driver), hoping to use the latest Xen features.
>  When I boot into the kernel-xen, it gets up to the following line and 
>  reboots itself in an endless loop.
>  XEN is relinquishing VGA console 
Xen Dom0 host is *NOT* supported in Fedora 9. Only  DomU guest is
supported. If you need dom0 host, stay on Fedora 8.

Dan.
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[Alroger L. Gomes F.]

Dan, what do you mean? You mean in this beta stage, or what?
What about all the talks of bringing kernel-xen uptodate with the latest 
kernels and P2V tools?

>  Xen Dom0 host is *NOT* supported in Fedora 9. Only  DomU guest is
>  supported. If you need dom0 host, stay on Fedora 8.
>
>  Dan. 
Anyway, here is my GRUB...
And noreboot, simply does that... stays at that line, but there is no 
way to check for errors.

Here is my grub:
#boot=/dev/cciss/c0d0
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.25-0.18.rc8.fc9.x86_64.xen)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /xen.gz-2.6.25-0.18.rc8.fc9.x86_64.xen noreboot
        module /vmlinuz-2.6.25-0.18.rc8.fc9.x86_64.xen ro 
root=UUID=73930cfa-e3d2-4b71-979b-dfa1634c195f rhgb quiet selinux=0
        module /initrd-2.6.25-0.18.rc8.fc9.x86_64.xen.img


Alroger L. Gomes F. wrote:
>  Hello everyone.
>  I've just installed Fedora9, on a HP Proliant Server ML350 with 
>  SmartArray E200i (cciss driver), hoping to use the latest Xen features.
>  When I boot into the kernel-xen, it gets up to the following line and 
>  reboots itself in an endless loop.
>  XEN is relinquishing VGA console
>
>  It does not generate any output on /var/log/messages nor /var/log/xen/*.
>
>  Any ideas? 
-- 
Alroger Luiz Gomes Filho
SDEV - Smart Developments
http://www.sdev.com
http://cafe-ti.blog.br

So little time, so many systems . . .

[itamar]

dom0 é o kernel que dá o boot.

os kernels-xen que vem no fedora 9 simplesmente nao servem para dar boot 
na maquina.

ele disse que se quiser dar boot na maquina com o kernel-xen pra voce 
utilizar o fedora 8



Alroger L. Gomes F. wrote:
>  Dan, what do you mean? You mean in this beta stage, or what?
>  What about all the talks of bringing kernel-xen uptodate with the 
>  latest kernels and P2V tools?
>
> > Xen Dom0 host is *NOT* supported in Fedora 9. Only  DomU guest is
> > supported. If you need dom0 host, stay on Fedora 8.
> >
> > Dan.
>  Anyway, here is my GRUB...
>  And noreboot, simply does that... stays at that line, but there is no 
>  way to check for errors.
>
>  Here is my grub:
>  #boot=/dev/cciss/c0d0
>  default=0
>  timeout=5
>  splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>  hiddenmenu
>  title Fedora (2.6.25-0.18.rc8.fc9.x86_64.xen)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /xen.gz-2.6.25-0.18.rc8.fc9.x86_64.xen noreboot
>         module /vmlinuz-2.6.25-0.18.rc8.fc9.x86_64.xen ro 
>  root=UUID=73930cfa-e3d2-4b71-979b-dfa1634c195f rhgb quiet selinux=0
>         module /initrd-2.6.25-0.18.rc8.fc9.x86_64.xen.img
>
>
>  Alroger L. Gomes F. wrote:
> > Hello everyone.
> > I've just installed Fedora9, on a HP Proliant Server ML350 with 
> > SmartArray E200i (cciss driver), hoping to use the latest Xen features.
> > When I boot into the kernel-xen, it gets up to the following line and 
> > reboots itself in an endless loop.
> > XEN is relinquishing VGA console
> >
> > It does not generate any output on /var/log/messages nor /var/log/xen/*.
> >
> > Any ideas?

[Markus Armbruster]

[Quoting fixed]

"Alroger L. Gomes F." <alroger.filho(a)sdev.com&gt; writes:

>  "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; writes:
> > Xen Dom0 host is *NOT* supported in Fedora 9. Only  DomU guest is
> > supported. If you need dom0 host, stay on Fedora 8.
> >
> > Dan.
>
>  Dan, what do you mean? You mean in this beta stage, or what?
>  What about all the talks of bringing kernel-xen uptodate with the
>  latest kernels and P2V tools? 
[...]

F9 will not support Xen Dom0 when released.  Whether we will be able
to provide that support in a later update I can't say.

Old kernels are unsupportable in F9, and splitting resources between
more forward porting of the Xen kernel patches and the pvops kernel
makes no sense; we'd get neither done.  So we opted for getting pvops
done, because when that's done it's *done*.  Unfortunately, we
couldn't get there in time for F9.