Aaron,

Fantastic! Since you have a Xen setup, would you mind running this test and
posting your results to the wiki? [0]
Let me know if you need anything.

[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Boot_Methods_Xen_Para_Virt

Geoff Marr
IRC: coremodule


On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 8:21 PM Aaron Gray <aaronngray.li...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Update
>
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2018 at 02:33, Aaron Gray <aaronngray.li...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to get Xen working properly on rawhide / F29 Beta.
>>
>> I had one instillation on F29 that worked straight away with :-
>>
>>     sudo yum groupinstall 'Virtualization' sudo yum install xen
>>
>> I cannot seem to reproduce this now though :(
>>
>> And am getting the following :-
>> ~~~
>> Loading xen 4.11.0
>> error: ../../grub-core/fs/fshelp.c:258:file
>> `/EFI/fedora/x86_64-efi/module2.mod' not found.
>> error: ../../grub-core/fs/fshelp.c:258:file
>> `/EFI/fedora/x86_64-efi/multiboot2.mod' not found.
>> Loading Linux 4.18.5-300.fc29.x86_64 ...
>> error: ../../grub-core/script/function.c:109@can't file command
>> `module2'.
>> Loading initial ramdisk ...
>> error: ../../grub-core/fs/fshelp.c:258:file
>> `/EFI/fedora/x86_64-efi/module2.mod' not found.
>> error: ../../grub-core/script/function.c:109@can't file command
>> `module2'.
>> ~~~
>>
>> I have another SSD now with Xen booting correctly but unable toaccess xen
>> from virt-manager but am getting access to it via :-
>>
>>     virsh -c xen:///system
>>
>> which is showing Domain-0 running
>>
>> On boot up its still giving errors :-
>> ~~~
>> Loading Xen 4.11.0 ...
>> error: ../../grub-core/fs/fshelp.c:258:file `/grub2/i386-pc/module2.mod'
>> not found.
>> Loading Linux 4.18.5-300.fc29.x86_64 ...
>> Loading initial ramdisk ...
>> error: ../../grub-core/fs/fshelp.c:258:file `/grub2/i386-pc/module2.mod'
>> not found.
>> ~~~
>> So it look like module2.mod is still not loading but I was getting this
>> on the fully working version I lost earlier IIRC.
>>
>> I am hoping that this error report is useful and might give a clue as to
>> what I need to do next to get Xen running on my Intel Z270 hardware.
>>
>> I am sort of thinking the reson Xen is not working on this last machine
>> is a missing rpm ?
>>
>
> Okay it was really simple, I just did - File > Add Connection - and Xen is
> there now !
>
>
>> I can work as a tester for Xen for F29 Beta if this is needed as I would
>> like to get this release working properly for Xen.
>>
>
> I have fast machines and multiple SSD's so can quite quickly do reinstalls
> and mods for testing if that helps.
>
> I will follow up the above errors the module/module2 and
> multiboot/multiboot2 are insmod's in the grub config so I am wondering if
> module.mod is required but not crucial and missing or whether its been made
> redundant and is still in the grub config ? It would be good to get to the
> bottom of this. Also I am wondering with the EFI errors whether its to do
> with the UEFI configuration on Fedora install whether that is selected or
> not ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Aaron
> ---
> Aaron Gray
>
> Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer Language Researcher,
> Information Theorist, and amateur computer scientist.
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