Re: [CentOS-virt] missing bnx2x firmware files in Xen4CentOS CentOS6 kernel 3.18.12-11
On 07/07/2015 12:00 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 07/07/2015 10:36 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:43 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On 07/05/2015 11:35 AM, T.Weyergraf wrote: Hi folks As mentioned in the subject, kernel-3.18.12-11 is missing firmware files required to run Broadcom/Qlogic network cards, driven by bnx2x driver. While in the source-rpm, there is a bnx2/bnx2x firmware tgz being applied during the rpm build, along with a patch adding these firmware files to firmware/Makefile, neither the tgz nor the patch contain the required firmware files. In 3.18, the driver bumped to version 1.710.51-0, requiring the following firmware files/versions to work: firmware: bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.10.51.0.fw firmware: bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.10.51.0.fw firmware: bnx2x/bnx2x-e1-7.10.51.0.fw I helped myself by either copying the required firmware-files to the target-machines' /lib/firmware/bnx2x dir and ultimately by adding the files to the source-rpm along with a new Makefile patch and rebuilding the kernel rpms. However, as bnx2x NICs seem quite commonplace these days, I suggest to fix this 'upstream'. If required, I can provide the (trivial) patch. I pulled the firmware-files from a CentOS 7 stock kernel. Regards Thomas Thomas, Please see if this kernel solves your issues: http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/xen-kernel/x86_64/Packages/ Thanks, Johnny Hughes There was a response, Nope, those did not work. See: https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=9030#c23582 That is a different person (I think .. maybe not), so I will wait for a reply here too and I will make sure I have the latest fw files from kernel.org again. OH .. I see, I did not get the firmware files, but their git pointer info :) I will rebuild and repost. Thanks, Johnny Hughes signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] Windows 10 tech preview build 10130
On Sat, 2015-07-04 at 19:22 -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote: I am glad it worked. Sounds to me like Windows being Windows. SOF (Son-of-Frankenstein or Windows Nein, oops, Windows 10) is terrible quality. If it works right in your other VM's, then it is SOF's doing. The newest update (10162) appears to have improved the weird mouse behaviour I was seeing. It's smoother now, but still not as good as on my Fedora client machine (I'm using virt-viewer to get to the Windows KVM). -- Kanwar R.S. Sandhu ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] missing bnx2x firmware files in Xen4CentOS CentOS6 kernel 3.18.12-11
On 07/07/2015 12:20 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 07/07/2015 12:00 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 07/07/2015 10:36 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:43 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On 07/05/2015 11:35 AM, T.Weyergraf wrote: Hi folks As mentioned in the subject, kernel-3.18.12-11 is missing firmware files required to run Broadcom/Qlogic network cards, driven by bnx2x driver. While in the source-rpm, there is a bnx2/bnx2x firmware tgz being applied during the rpm build, along with a patch adding these firmware files to firmware/Makefile, neither the tgz nor the patch contain the required firmware files. In 3.18, the driver bumped to version 1.710.51-0, requiring the following firmware files/versions to work: firmware: bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.10.51.0.fw firmware: bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.10.51.0.fw firmware: bnx2x/bnx2x-e1-7.10.51.0.fw I helped myself by either copying the required firmware-files to the target-machines' /lib/firmware/bnx2x dir and ultimately by adding the files to the source-rpm along with a new Makefile patch and rebuilding the kernel rpms. However, as bnx2x NICs seem quite commonplace these days, I suggest to fix this 'upstream'. If required, I can provide the (trivial) patch. I pulled the firmware-files from a CentOS 7 stock kernel. Regards Thomas Thomas, Please see if this kernel solves your issues: http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/xen-kernel/x86_64/Packages/ Thanks, Johnny Hughes There was a response, Nope, those did not work. See: https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=9030#c23582 That is a different person (I think .. maybe not), so I will wait for a reply here too and I will make sure I have the latest fw files from kernel.org again. OH .. I see, I did not get the firmware files, but their git pointer info :) I will rebuild and repost. Please try the packages that are now in the same location. http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/xen-kernel/x86_64/Packages/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] missing bnx2x firmware files in Xen4CentOS CentOS6 kernel 3.18.12-11
Hi all On 07/07/2015 10:30 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 07/07/2015 12:20 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: [ loads of stuff deleted ] OH .. I see, I did not get the firmware files, but their git pointer info :) I will rebuild and repost. Please try the packages that are now in the same location. http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/xen-kernel/x86_64/Packages/ Yes, I can confirm the first packages were broken. I'll try those tomorrow, when I am back at work. However, they look fine. First of all, all required files are present and I extracted and md5sum-ed them against the ones from my kernel ( of which I know they work ). All md5sums are fine. Thanks a lot for the quick fix. Are you going to push these packages to the Xen4CentOS repo? The reason I ask, is that I use Xen4CentOS at work, where I run a fairly large infrastructure on Xen4CentOS in a production environment. Mixing bug fixes with minor updates - repo version is at 3.18.12 while you provide 3.18.17 - is a bit of a problem, as I need to validate the new kernel version before pushing it into production (read: run some tests, check if everything works). I recon that updated versions of LTS kernels incorporate bugfixes, which are desirable anyway. But i'd rather wait until they are pushed to Xen4CentOS before arguing them into production. Hence my question on the timeline. I'll give the packages a spin anyway tomorrow and come back to report my results. Again, thanks a lot. And, by the way, rest assured that the whole Xen4CentOS effort is very much appreciated and matters a lot. Regards Thomas ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] Beta CentOS 7 Xen packages available
On 06/17/2015 04:24 PM, George Dunlap wrote: At long last, I'd like to announce beta packages for CentOS 7, available from the community build system. Great to see Xen coming to CentOS 7 ! I gave the virtx7-44-testing packages a spin on a fresh CentOS 7 install (legacy boot, no efi, as there is no xen.efi). However, I was not able to start any HVM or PVHVM guests. Upon create, the DomU was setup but did not do anything, but instead entered a reboot-loop (Dom ID was increased, but no boot output. No bootloader output on the console, despite everything in the guest setup to display on serial console). The exact same guests worked fine with Xen4CentOS xen+kernel packages for CentOS6. Note, that PV DomUs run fine (tested with CentOS5). I did not invest too much time into debugging, but from xl's logs, the DomU was apparently shutdown upon creation: Waiting for domain xencen7 (domid 1) to die [pid 3162] Domain 1 has shut down, reason code 1 0x1 Action for shutdown reason code 1 is restart Domain 1 needs to be cleaned up: destroying the domain Done. Rebooting now Waiting for domain xencen7 (domid 2) to die [pid 3162] Domain 2 has shut down, reason code 1 0x1 Action for shutdown reason code 1 is restart Domain 2 needs to be cleaned up: destroying the domain Done. Rebooting now The interesting part is, that the pid of the xl create job (3162) remains the same, thus xl create never exits but instead attempt the re-create the DomU in a loop, only to be stopped by killing the xl process. At the moment, I run my own self-build CentOS 7 xen packages. But if desired, I can switch back to the virt7-xen-44-testing packages to assist any debugging. Regards, Thomas ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] missing bnx2x firmware files in Xen4CentOS CentOS6 kernel 3.18.12-11
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:43 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On 07/05/2015 11:35 AM, T.Weyergraf wrote: Hi folks As mentioned in the subject, kernel-3.18.12-11 is missing firmware files required to run Broadcom/Qlogic network cards, driven by bnx2x driver. While in the source-rpm, there is a bnx2/bnx2x firmware tgz being applied during the rpm build, along with a patch adding these firmware files to firmware/Makefile, neither the tgz nor the patch contain the required firmware files. In 3.18, the driver bumped to version 1.710.51-0, requiring the following firmware files/versions to work: firmware: bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.10.51.0.fw firmware: bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.10.51.0.fw firmware: bnx2x/bnx2x-e1-7.10.51.0.fw I helped myself by either copying the required firmware-files to the target-machines' /lib/firmware/bnx2x dir and ultimately by adding the files to the source-rpm along with a new Makefile patch and rebuilding the kernel rpms. However, as bnx2x NICs seem quite commonplace these days, I suggest to fix this 'upstream'. If required, I can provide the (trivial) patch. I pulled the firmware-files from a CentOS 7 stock kernel. Regards Thomas Thomas, Please see if this kernel solves your issues: http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/xen-kernel/x86_64/Packages/ Thanks, Johnny Hughes There was a response, Nope, those did not work. See: https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=9030#c23582 Akemi ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] Windows 10 tech preview build 10130
On 07/07/2015 09:06 AM, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: On Sat, 2015-07-04 at 19:22 -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote: I am glad it worked. Sounds to me like Windows being Windows. SOF (Son-of-Frankenstein or Windows Nein, oops, Windows 10) is terrible quality. If it works right in your other VM's, then it is SOF's doing. The newest update (10162) appears to have improved the weird mouse behaviour I was seeing. It's smoother now, but still not as good as on my Fedora client machine (I'm using virt-viewer to get to the Windows KVM). Try using remote-viewer. For example: remote-viewer spice://127.0.0.1:5909 --title KVM-SL7 It is part of the virt-viewer package, so yo should already have it -- ~~ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you open windows ~~ ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
