Re: [Fedora-xen] Simple testing results for Xen and VMXon FC5-test2.

[You, Yongkang]

> -----Original Message-----
> > 1. *** IA32E hasn't RPMS about Xen hypervisor and Xen0/XenU kernels.
> __FAIL__
>
> It's coming.  I hope.  The upstream x86_64 stuff from linux-2.6-merge
> doesn't actually compile at the moment (though that's easy to fix), and
> once compiled it fails in different, compiler-dependent ways on some of
> my hardware.  I've got a minimally stable boot now on a different box,
> but the upstream base in this case is proving hard to work with. 
I am very glad to hear it is coming. :) Hope we can see it in the FC5-test3 x86_64
packages.

> > 2. *** In order to boot up IA32 Xen0, I have to add pci=noacpi as the boot
> > parameters of Xen0 kernel, or system will hang when initial PCI. I don't know if
> it is only related to my Machine.
>
> It's certainly hardware-dependent, but you're not the only person
> reporting the need for such options.  Please open a bugzilla so that we
> can track this one properly, as we'd really like to automate such
> options as much as possible for the main release.
>
> One thing that would be worth knowing is whether the main, non-xen
> rawhide SMP kernel boots on this box.  The UP kernel disables a bunch of
> advanced hardware enablement for compatibility purposes, but the SMP one
> should match Xen as closely as possible. 
I am not sure how common used my machine is. :( But it can work with latest Xen + 2.6.12
kernel in the RHEL4u2 or FC4. So the new problem may be related with new kernel 2.6.15? I
can fire a new bug about it. My testing machine is SMP enabled.

> > 8. Couldn't get Xen Changeset by "xm info" or "xm dmesg".
>
> Not sure how easy that would be to add, since we don't build it out of
> Mercurial directly but rather out of a tarballed copy from the CVS build
> system.  I'm being careful to add the changeset info to the changelog in
> the rpm, though. 
Em. If we can found some changeset info in changelog or other way, it may bring some help
to customers and developers. :-)

> Thanks,
>  Stephen 
Best Regards,
Yongkang (Kangkang) 永康

Simple testing results for Xen and VMXon FC5-test2.

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 23:57 +0800, You, Yongkang wrote:

>  I am not sure how common used my machine is. :( But it can work with
>  latest Xen + 2.6.12 kernel in the RHEL4u2 or FC4. So the new problem
>  may be related with new kernel 2.6.15? I can fire a new bug about it.  
Thanks, please do.


>  >Not sure how easy that would be to add, since we don't build
> it out of
>  >Mercurial directly but rather out of a tarballed copy from the CVS build
>  >system.  I'm being careful to add the changeset info to the changelog in
>  >the rpm, though.
>  
>  Em. If we can found some changeset info in changelog or other way, it
>  may bring some help to customers and developers. :-) 
Yes, it's already in the changelogs: "rpm -q --changelog xen" shows me
...
* Mon Jan 30 2006 <sct(a)redhat.com&gt; - 3.0-0.20060130.fc5
- Update to xen-unstable from 20060130 (cset 8705)

--Stephen