[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_resolv...

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_resolv...

Installing x86_64 on F8 x86_64 host, I'm hung at "installing bootloader".

[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_resolv...
>
> 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.