[Fwd: Number 9, number 9. Fedora 9 Preview has been cleared for takeoff!]

[Mark McLoughlin]

Hey,
	There doesn't appear to be any install trees yet for the F9 Preview
release, but please do try and run F9 rawhide in your Xen DomU (both
i686 and x86_64) and help us flush out any remaining issues in the lead
up to the final release.

	The current blocker list looks like:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=434756&hide_res...

Cheers,
Mark.

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 08:42:02AM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>  Hey,
>  	There doesn't appear to be any install trees yet for the F9 Preview
>  release, but please do try and run F9 rawhide in your Xen DomU (both
>  i686 and x86_64) and help us flush out any remaining issues in the lead
>  up to the final release.
>   
Hi!

I just tried installing rawhide domU with virt-inst on CentOS 5.1 x86 32bit
dom0:

virt-install -n test -r 512 --vcpus=1 -f /dev/vg0/test_disk1 --vnc -p 
-b xenbr0 -l
"ftp://ftp.mirror.country/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/i386/os"

Graphical installation seems to work fine.. and now the mouse/pointer even
follows like it should :) 

# uname -a
Linux f9preview.localdomain 2.6.25-0.24.rc9.fc9.i686.xen #1 SMP Tue Apr 15 19:01:14 EDT
2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Is there something specific I should try? 

Thanks for all the hard work on pv_ops! 

-- Pasi

[Mark McLoughlin]

On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 17:46 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:

>  I just tried installing rawhide domU with virt-inst on CentOS 5.1 x86
> 32bit
>  dom0: 
Great, thanks.

>  Is there something specific I should try?  
Nope, just use it in anger if you can, test new kernel-xen updates etc.

x86_64 DomU is where most of our current troubles are, so people testing
that would be greatly appreciated too.

Cheers,
Mark.

[Orion Poplawski]

Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>  Hey,
>  	There doesn't appear to be any install trees yet for the F9 Preview
>  release, but please do try and run F9 rawhide in your Xen DomU (both
>  i686 and x86_64) and help us flush out any remaining issues in the lead
>  up to the final release.
>  
>  	The current blocker list looks like:
>  
>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=434756&hide_res...
>   
Installing x86_64 on F8 x86_64 host, I'm hung at "installing bootloader".



-- 
Orion Poplawski
Technical Manager                     303-415-9701 x222
NWRA/CoRA Division                    FAX: [phone]
3380 Mitchell Lane                  orion(a)cora.nwra.com
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[Mark McLoughlin]

Hi,

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 15:30 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>  Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>  > Hey,
>  > 	There doesn't appear to be any install trees yet for the F9 Preview
>  > release, but please do try and run F9 rawhide in your Xen DomU (both
>  > i686 and x86_64) and help us flush out any remaining issues in the lead
>  > up to the final release.
>  > 
>  > 	The current blocker list looks like:
>  > 
>  >   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=434756&hide_res...
>  > 
>  
>  Installing x86_64 on F8 x86_64 host, I'm hung at "installing bootloader".
	Yep, that's this one:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/442685

	Basically, the x86_64 kernel-xen doesn't currently have support for
running 32 binaries, so grub-install fails at the very end of the
install and anaconda hangs.

	If you just reboot the guest at that point, all is well since pygrub
doesn't actually need grub-install to have been run.

	It's on F9Blocker and hopefully we'll fix it either with an ugly,
temporary hack in anaconda or by getting ia32 support into
kernel-xen.x86_64.

	(You wouldn't have seen the bug looking at PvOpsTracker because I moved
PvOpsTracker from F9Blocker to F9Tracker and moved #442685 from
PvOpsTracker to F9Blocker)

Cheers,
Mark.

[Orion Poplawski]

Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 15:30 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > Installing x86_64 on F8 x86_64 host, I'm hung at "installing
> bootloader".
>  
>  	Yep, that's this one:
>  
>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/442685
>  
>  	Basically, the x86_64 kernel-xen doesn't currently have support for
>  running 32 binaries, so grub-install fails at the very end of the
>  install and anaconda hangs.
>  
>  	If you just reboot the guest at that point, all is well since pygrub
>  doesn't actually need grub-install to have been run. 
Okay, that got it up.  Unfortunately it crashes before my kickstart 
%post script could run, but that can be done by hand.  Thanks for the info.

-- 
Orion Poplawski
Technical Manager                     303-415-9701 x222
NWRA/CoRA Division                    FAX: [phone]
3380 Mitchell Lane                  orion(a)cora.nwra.com
Boulder, CO 80301              http://www.cora.nwra.com