xen packages to test

[M A Young]

I have a couple of temporary builds of xen release candidates available 
for testing; xen-4.0.2-rc4 built for F14 at 
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3085546
and xen-4.1.1-rc1 built for F15 at
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3086043

Also if you are interested in testing packages for RHEL6 see
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3086043

 	Michael Young

more xen release candidates to test

[M A Young]

I have built 4.0.2-rc6 for F14 which is (temporarily) at
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3110390
and 4.1.1-rc2 for F15 which is (temporarily) at
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3110497
these are supposedly the final release candidates before full releases in 
a week's time, but that could change.

If anyone doesn't know already, the upstream kernel tree (as of 3.0-rc1) 
has xen-blkback included which means you can now run xen which reasonable 
disk performance with native kernels (though there are currently issues 
with module-init-tools and kernel-3.0-0.rc1.git0.1.fc16 is confused as to 
whether it was 3.0 or 3.0.0).

 	Michael Young

more xen release candidates to test

[Bill McGonigle]

On 06/03/2011 07:18 PM, M A Young wrote:
>  If anyone doesn't know already, the upstream kernel tree (as of
> 3.0-rc1)
>  has xen-blkback included which means you can now run xen which reasonable
>  disk performance with native kernels (though there are currently issues
>  with module-init-tools and kernel-3.0-0.rc1.git0.1.fc16 is confused as to
>  whether it was 3.0 or 3.0.0). 
Looks like module-init-tools was addressed on 6/6, so that's promising.

I'm having some issues with 2.6.32.39-175.xendom0.fc13.x86_64 and disk 
partition detection (I need to run partprobe after boot to get, e.g. 
sdd1 to show up, sdd only is found), so I figured might as well try to 
move forward before moving back.

My base OS is Fedora 14.  Which version of Xen should I have installed 
if I want to try upgrading to 3.0.0-rc5 via the koji build and get 
xen-blkback?  Is it the same as you've been backporting for us (i.e. no 
changes needed)?

Thanks,
-Bill

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VNC session Fedora 16 (TC) running as PV domU doesn't grab mouse pointer

[Boris Derzhavets]

Xen 4.1.2 with pygrub gpt patches back ported installed on top of Ubuntu 11.10.
Virt-install'ed  F16 PV guest.  After domain gets created VNC login screen shows up.
Mouse should be kept always inside VNC screen.  Otherwise , it will disappear.

Start F16 domU  via virsh and connection via vncviewer gives working mouse pointer,
which looks like "dot"  in VNC session, but gets grabbed.

Boris.

Virt-install hangs installing F16 (TC) with --nographics option

[Boris Derzhavets]

virt-install --connect xen:/// --debug -n VF16PV --nographics -p -r 2048\
 --vcpus=2  -f /dev/sdb8 -l http://192.168.0.175/f16 

. . . . . 

Started Recreate Volatile Files and Directories.
Started udev Wait for Complete Device Initialization.
Starting Software RAID Monitor Takeover...
Started anaconda performance monitor.
Starting System Logging Service...
Starting Shell on tty2...
Started Shell on tty2.
Starting Shell on hvc1...
Started Shell on hvc1.
[    2.578301] agetty[296]: /dev/hvc1: cannot open as standard input: No such device
Starting Anaconda version 16.22.

Hangs

Boris.

Virt-install hangs installing F16 (TC) with --nographics option

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 06:00:30AM -0700, Boris Derzhavets wrote:
>  virt-install --connect xen:/// --debug -n VF16PV --nographics -p -r
> 2048\
>   --vcpus=2  -f /dev/sdb8 -l http://192.168.0.175/f16 
>  
>  . . . . . 
>  
>  Started Recreate Volatile Files and Directories.
>  Started udev Wait for Complete Device Initialization.
>  Starting Software RAID Monitor Takeover...
>  Started anaconda performance monitor.
>  Starting System Logging Service...
>  Starting Shell on tty2...
>  Started Shell on tty2.
>  Starting Shell on hvc1...
>  Started Shell on hvc1.
>  [    2.578301] agetty[296]: /dev/hvc1: cannot open as standard input: No such device
>  Starting Anaconda version 16.22. 
Did that exact line of arguments work with F15?

Why are you using '--nographics' without the 'serial text' argument?
>  
>  Hangs 
Does it work if you do not use '--nographics'?
>  
>  Boris. 
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Virt-install hangs installing F16 (TC) with --nographics option

[Boris Derzhavets]

>  Did that exact line of arguments work with F15? 
Yes, works fine

>  Why are you using '--nographics' without the 'serial
> text' argument? 
Please, point to  an exact syntax. It was never required before.

> Does it work if you do not use '--nographics'? 
Yes. --vnc  works as earlier. No problems

Boris.

--- On Mon, 10/24/11, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk(a)oracle.com&gt; wrote:

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk(a)oracle.com&gt;
Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] Virt-install hangs installing F16 (TC) with --nographics option
To: "Boris Derzhavets" <bderzhavets(a)yahoo.com&gt;
Cc: xen(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Date: Monday, October 24, 2011, 10:29 AM

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 06:00:30AM -0700, Boris Derzhavets wrote:
>  virt-install --connect xen:/// --debug -n VF16PV --nographics -p -r
> 2048\
>   --vcpus=2  -f /dev/sdb8 -l