[Fedora-xen] 4.2.0-rc2 available to test

[W. Michael Petullo]

>> I have done a temporary build of 4.2.0-rc2 for testing which is at
>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4386920
>> This also adds the efi hypervisor back in for x86_64.
 
> Note to other people: fedora kernels still don't have xen dom0 EFI patches included,
> mainly because dom0 EFI patches are not yet ported to pvops or merged to upstream Linux.
> 
> So actually testing xen.efi hypervisor on UEFI systems is a bit tricky atm..
> (you need to manually build a kernel based on the suse xenlinux sles11sp2 or opensuse patches).

I have tried the 4.2.0-rc packages on three machines: one with an AMD Athlon X2,
one with an AMD FX 4170 [1], and a MacBook with a Core 2 Duo.

The first machine works fine.

The FX 4170 and MacBook are unable to load Dom0. I see Xen print its
boot messages, but the machines spontaneously reboot before Dom0 prints
any output.

[1] Same machine referenced at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841330

-- 
Mike

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