Re: [Fedora-xen] kernel-2.6.32.10-1.2.92.xendom0.fc12.x86_64 X broken on MacBook

2010-04-03 Thread W. Michael Petullo
I just tried kernel-2.6.32.10-1.2.92.xendom0.fc12.x86_64 from Mike Young's repository on my MacBook and found that the video driver does not seem to work. Lspci reports: 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 9400M (rev b1) What is the grub.conf entry? Have you

[Fedora-xen] Xen Dom0 and Fedora 14

2010-09-01 Thread W. Michael Petullo
I have been investigating the use of Xen with a Fedora 14 (devel)-based Dom0. Until now, I have always used Michael Young's Dom0 kernels. The first thing I did was try to build the current Fedora 14 kernel with Xen Dom0 support. I began porting Michael's RPM specification to the Fedora 14

Re: [Fedora-xen] Final F12 2.6.32.x dom0 kernel and vanilla 2.6.37-rc4

2010-12-02 Thread W. Michael Petullo
I have built what may be my last Fedora 12 kernel (2.6.32.26-174.2.xendom0.fc12) as Fedora 12 EOLs today (this is the same Fedora patch level as the official 2.6.32.26-175.fc12 kernel which has just been released). It is available at

[Fedora-xen] Re: Final F12 2.6.32.x dom0 kernel and vanilla 2.6.37-rc4

2011-01-02 Thread W. Michael Petullo
This kernel works as expected with one exception. The exception has been a nagging problem, but I have not reported it because 1) we are using a research OS in DomU and 2) we are not clear if the problem is in our code, Linux or Xen. But, here are the symptoms: Occasionally (this seems to

[Fedora-xen] Network-route and vif-route scripts broken?

2011-01-17 Thread W. Michael Petullo
This is something I raised on the upstream xen-devel mailing list. I have not yet received any response, so I though I'd try to ask here: I am using Xen with the included network-route and vif-route scripts. My system runs Fedora 14 with Michael Young's Dom0 kernel. When xend starts and

Re: [Fedora-xen] 2.6.38-rc dom0 kernel and xen 4.1.0-rc2

2011-01-27 Thread W. Michael Petullo
Now, the last issue remaining for me is the backend drivers. My understanding is that, in the absence of backends being accepted upstream, we can use QEMU-based drivers. This would be acceptable for our work. Has anyone been using these with Fedora 15? In theory the block driver should work

Re: [Fedora-xen] 2.6.38-rc dom0 kernel and xen 4.1.0-rc2

2011-01-29 Thread W. Michael Petullo
Now, the last issue remaining for me is the backend drivers. My understanding is that, in the absence of backends being accepted upstream, we can use QEMU-based drivers. This would be acceptable for our work. Has anyone been using these with Fedora 15? In theory the block driver should work

[Fedora-xen] 2.6.38-0.rc2.git3.2.xendom0.fc15 and power management

2011-01-29 Thread W. Michael Petullo
As reported earlier, I have been using 2.6.38-0.rc2.git3.2.xendom0.fc15 with good results. One thing I have come across is that power management does not seem to work. For example, pm-suspend does not suspend my system. Instead, the system merely becomes unresponsive. On the other hand,

Re: [Fedora-xen] 2.6.38-rc dom0 kernel and xen 4.1.0-rc2

2011-01-31 Thread W. Michael Petullo
I have finally got a domU to boot in this sort of situation, having found a few bugs in 4.1.0-rc2 on the way when trying to use pygrub as a bootloader. Note that you may have to use xl rather than xm because they are deprecating xm and xm may not have support for qemu block backends. Does

Re: [Fedora-xen] rc3 kernel and xen

2011-02-02 Thread W. Michael Petullo
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 10:43:18PM +, M A Young wrote: I have builds of a new dom0 kernel (2.6.38-0.rc3.git0.1.xendom0.fc15) at http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2755802 and xen (4.1.0-0.1.rc3.fc14) at http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2753907 Here is

Re: [Fedora-xen] 2.6.38-rc4 dom0 kernel

2011-02-11 Thread W. Michael Petullo
I have a new kernel (2.6.38-0.rc4.git3.1.xendom0.fc15) at http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2833991 . This uses the Konrad's devel/next-2.6.38 branch (from http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git ), as I have been having trouble which Jeremy's

[Fedora-xen] Odd behavior from OpenSSL benchmark

2011-02-28 Thread W. Michael Petullo
I sent the following to xen-users, but thought I'd ask the Fedora folks too. I am running the OpenSSL s_server/s_time benchmark between two DomUs. The two DomUs are running on separate machines, and they are the only unprivileged domain running on their machine. Both machines have dual core AMD

Re: [Fedora-xen] Another 2.6.38-rc6 dom0 kernel

2011-03-13 Thread W. Michael Petullo
Here is another kernel (2.6.38-0.rc6.git6.1.xendom0.fc15) at http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2874240 The crash when a domU shuts down seems to be fixed. I just had a chance to test this, along with the xen-4.1.0-0.1.rc6.fc14.x86_64 Xen packages. Two notable things have

Re: [Fedora-xen] xen 4.1.0-rc8

2011-03-23 Thread W. Michael Petullo
We got another release candidiate xen-4.1.0-rc8 instead, built at http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2929815 The final release has slipped to Friday. I am considering building the release candidate as an official rawhide/F15 package so I can be sure to get it into F15 in time

Re: [Fedora-xen] test 2.6.38 dom0 kernel

2011-04-04 Thread W. Michael Petullo
I have done an experimental kernel, which is a standard F15 2.6.38 kernel plus the two packages needed to get the xen net backend working. In my testing on an F15 host I could get a guest to boot from a text boot, though X crashed. The build is at

[Fedora-xen] OProfile and Xen

2011-04-04 Thread W. Michael Petullo
Is anyone using OProfile with Xen? I am especially interested in the passive profiling of Xen DomU domains. I've attached a Xen patch against the Fedora oprofile package to a report in Bugzilla, #693596. But, even with this patch I am getting mixed results. See also

[Fedora-xen] Xen Dom0 feature pushed to Fedora 16

2011-04-05 Thread W. Michael Petullo
The Xen Dom0 feature described at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0 has been pushed to Fedora 16. I don't think this should come as a surprise. A lot of people are working hard on the kernel components, but they did not make the Fedora 15 timeline. -- Mike :wq -- xen

[Fedora-xen] Xend not always starting on Fedora 15 Beta

2011-05-23 Thread W. Michael Petullo
Has anyone else had trouble starting xend when SELinux is enforcing the targeted policy on the various test releases of Fedora 15? I just submitted a bug report at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706987 -- Mike :wq -- xen mailing list xen@lists.fedoraproject.org

[Fedora-xen] Xl and /dev/null

2011-08-01 Thread W. Michael Petullo
The old xm command allowed for a domain to be configured from and command line using xm create /dev/null kernel=x ... Xl does not seem to support this: $ sudo xl create /dev/null libxl: error: libxl_utils.c:328:libxl_read_file_contents /dev/null is not a plain file: Success Failed to read config

Re: [Fedora-xen] Python misbehaves on Xen/Fedora 17/AMD FX-4170 Processor

2012-07-03 Thread W. Michael Petullo
Has anyone had similar trouble? No. But it sounds like the AVX disaster. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801650 It seems to be. I booted bare metal and used yum to install gdb and the debug symbols for Python and glibc. Then I rebooted in Xen. I found that gdb itself

Re: [Fedora-xen] 4.2.0-rc2 available to test

2012-08-17 Thread 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

Re: [Fedora-xen] 4.2.0-rc2 available to test

2012-08-17 Thread 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

[Fedora-xen] Fedora 18 and EFI

2012-12-14 Thread W. Michael Petullo
I have successfully installed Fedora 18 Beta as Dom0 on one computer, and am now trying to do the same on another. I am using all of the standard Fedora 18 packages, including xen-4.2.0-6.fc18.x86_64. On the second computer, I ended up with an EFI grub2 install. I used yum to install xen, and

Re: [Fedora-xen] Fedora 18 and EFI

2012-12-15 Thread W. Michael Petullo
I have successfully installed Fedora 18 Beta as Dom0 on one computer, and am now trying to do the same on another. I am using all of the standard Fedora 18 packages, including xen-4.2.0-6.fc18.x86_64. On the second computer, I ended up with an EFI grub2 install. I used yum to install xen,

Re: [Fedora-xen] Updating xen package does not 'refresh' grub.cfg

2013-02-11 Thread W. Michael Petullo
I've the same exact problem. I had to manually run grub2-mkconfig in my all F17 boxes. Did you update the kernel at the same time? That looks like what you might get with grubby which is run (which doesn't handle xen very well, which is why xen-hypervisor runs grub2-mkconfig). This is also

Re: [Fedora-xen] Xen Test Day next Wednesday (May 22nd 2013)

2013-05-20 Thread W. Michael Petullo
The second Xen Test Day for the Xen 4.3 release cycle is going to be next Wednesday, the 22nd of May! We'll have the chance to test Xen 4.3 RC2, that will be out tomorrow. For more information see: - On Xen Test Days: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Test_Days - On getting and testing

[Fedora-xen] Fedora 21 crashes when booted as Dom0

2015-02-06 Thread W. Michael Petullo
Has anyone else seen this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1188573 ? The current Fedora 21 kernel crashes on my computer when booted in Dom0. $ uname -a Linux imp.flyn.org 3.18.3-201.fc21.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jan 19 15:59:31 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- Mike

[Fedora-xen] Xen utilities hanging on Fedora 24

2016-05-31 Thread W. Michael Petullo
Has anyone else seen things like "xl list" or xentop hang on Fedora 24? # rpm -q kernel xen kernel-4.5.5-300.fc24.x86_64 xen-4.6.1-10.fc24.x86_64 Running "strace xl list" produces the following, which seems to indicate that the hang occurs when "xl list" writes to /dev/xen/xenbus:

[Fedora-xen] Re: Xen utilities hanging on Fedora 24

2016-05-31 Thread W. Michael Petullo
>> Has anyone else seen things like "xl list" or xentop hang on Fedora 24? >> >> # rpm -q kernel xen >> kernel-4.5.5-300.fc24.x86_64 >> xen-4.6.1-10.fc24.x86_64 >> >> Running "strace xl list" produces the following, which seems to indicate >> that the hang occurs when "xl list" writes to

[Fedora-xen] Supported file-backed disk formats

2016-05-19 Thread W. Michael Petullo
What file-backed disk formats are supported by Xen using a Fedora Dom0? I am testing xen-4.6.1-8.fc24.x86_64, and I have not been able to get the "qcow2" and "vhd" formats to work. "Qcow" version 1 works fine with: disk = [ "tap2:qcow:/var/lib/xen/images/test-data.xen-qcow,xvdb,w" ]

[Fedora-xen] Windows guest networking

2017-02-10 Thread W. Michael Petullo
Is anyone running a Windows HVM guest with networking? I recently tried to connect a Windows 7 HVM guest to my network using vif-nat. For some reason, the setup does not work. Oddly, Dom0 lists the vif interface associated with the guest as "NO-CARRIER" even though the DomU Windows guest seems to

[Fedora-xen] Re: Windows guest networking

2017-02-11 Thread W. Michael Petullo
>> Is anyone running a Windows HVM guest with networking? I recently tried >> to connect a Windows 7 HVM guest to my network using vif-nat. For some >> reason, the setup does not work. Oddly, Dom0 lists the vif interface >> associated with the guest as "NO-CARRIER" even though the DomU Windows >>