[Fedora-xen] Move from Fedora 8 dom0s to F12/F13 dom0s with Xen 4.0.x questions

Pasi Kärkkäinen pasik at iki.fi
Sat May 22 16:04:50 UTC 2010


On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 06:00:10AM -0700, Boris Derzhavets wrote:
>    With 2.6.32.13 RH's PV guests (F13,RHL6 Beta tested) do detect NAT
>    interface
>    and can smoothly installed via virt-manager ( virt-install).
>    However, Ubuntu Lucid Official xenified installer is still failing with
>    NAT and requires
>    old style network bridging, OSOL 134 behaves same way.
>

Ubuntu 10.04 PV guest works just fine for me with NAT.

-- Pasi


> 
>    Boris.
> 
>    --- On Tue, 5/18/10, Boris Derzhavets <bderzhavets at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>      From: Boris Derzhavets <bderzhavets at yahoo.com>
>      Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] Move from Fedora 8 dom0s to F12/F13 dom0s with
>      Xen 4.0.x questions
>      To: xen at lists.fedoraproject.org, "fcxen user" <fcxen at itsbeen.sent.com>
>      Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 2:11 AM
> 
>      So, installed Xen 4.0 via MY's src.rpm on top F13 i had
>      to set up manually "br0" for PV Guests, HVM seems to be OK with NAT ( or
>      br0 no matter)
>      # chkconfig NetworkManager off
>      # chkconfig network on
>      Reboot
>      VNC console doesn't get launched for virt-installs of PV guests ,
>      referencing "br0".
>      Virt-install should run in "nographics" mode with VNC setup at DomU for
>      Fedoras,CentOS guests.
> 
>      I might did something wrong, but at the moment "Xen 4.0 /
>      Virt-manager&Virt-install" regression vs F12 is taken place.
> 
>      Boris.
> 
>      --- On Mon, 5/17/10, Boris Derzhavets <bderzhavets at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>        From: Boris Derzhavets <bderzhavets at yahoo.com>
>        Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] Move from Fedora 8 dom0s to F12/F13 dom0s
>        with Xen 4.0.x questions
>        To: xen at lists.fedoraproject.org, "fcxen user" <fcxen at itsbeen.sent.com>
>        Date: Monday, May 17, 2010, 11:49 PM
> 
>        I had to disable Xen bridging and setup bridge manually to be able to
>        work with PV
>        guests . In other words all xen bridged networking has to be commented
>        out on F13
>        and at the same time PV guest cannot obtain IP via virbr0
>        It doesn't happen on F12.
> 
>        --- On Mon, 5/17/10, Boris Derzhavets <bderzhavets at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>          From: Boris Derzhavets <bderzhavets at yahoo.com>
>          Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] Move from Fedora 8 dom0s to F12/F13 dom0s
>          with Xen 4.0.x questions
>          To: xen at lists.fedoraproject.org, "fcxen user"
>          <fcxen at itsbeen.sent.com>
>          Date: Monday, May 17, 2010, 1:44 PM
> 
>          > What i am not sure about is libvirt,virtinst,... behavior when
>          working with Xen 4.0 on F13
> 
>          Libvirt 0.7.7 and all related stuff
>          (virsh,virt-manager,virt-install) seem to work fine
>          at Xen 4.0 Dom0 ( pvops 2.6.31.13) on top of F13. Even HVM install
>          now could be performed via virt-manager.
> 
>          Auto detecting Xen Hypervisor and several attempts suggesting  KVM
>          answered
>          negative make strong impression. I thought it would  ask  me to
>          install KVM
>          every time at virt-manager start.
> 
>          [root at FedoraSRV ~]# virsh version
>          Compiled against library: libvir 0.7.7
>          Using library: libvir 0.7.7
>          Using API: Xen 3.0.1
>          Running hypervisor: Xen 4.0.0
> 
>          Boris.
> 
>          --- On Sun, 5/16/10, Boris Derzhavets <bderzhavets at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>            From: Boris Derzhavets <bderzhavets at yahoo.com>
>            Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] Move from Fedora 8 dom0s to F12/F13
>            dom0s with Xen 4.0.x questions
>            To: xen at lists.fedoraproject.org, "fcxen user"
>            <fcxen at itsbeen.sent.com>
>            Date: Sunday, May 16, 2010, 12:35 AM
> 
>            > * I use "virsh define" to create the VM configurations using
>            virsh xml, and I
>            assume that virsh/libvirtd won't work on a recent 2.6.32/33/3x
>            kernel and Xen
>            4.0.0
> 
>            > * Although Pasi, Michael, Dale and others have been very
>            generous with their
>            information, testing and development, I am not completely clear on
>            all the
>            steps required to get a working F12/F13/ Xen 4.0.X dom0 with
>            2.6.32/33/3x
>            kernel starting from a base F12/F13 system install. If someone can
>            point out
>            where to find different parts I would be grateful and would be
>            willing to
>            consolidate them into a single blob if that doesn't already exist.
> 
>            Responding both questions (for F12) :-
> 
>            http://www.linuxtoday.com/high_performance/2010041500635OSSV
> 
>            What i am not sure about is libvirt,virtinst,... behavior when
>            working with Xen 4.0 on F13
> 
>            Boris.
> 
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