Re: [Fedora-xen] Fedora 17 testing as Xen VM / Xorg issue

2012-05-30 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:15:52AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:45:37PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I just did some installs with F17 RC4 (the GA version) as a Xen VM.
> > 
> > Xen host/dom0: RHEL 5.8 x86_64 with the included Xen rpms.
> > 
> > Tested F17 RC4 VMs:
> > 
> > - 32bit F17 PV domU: graphical GUI install works OK using the Xen 
> > vfb/pvfb
> >   but Xorg fails to start during normal boot after installation.
> > 
> > - 64bit F17 PV domU: graphical GUI install works OK using the Xen 
> > vfb/pvfb 
> >   but Xorg fails to start during normal boot after installation.
> > 
> > - 32bit F17 PVHVM guest: X fails to start so VNC install must be used, 
> > install works OK thru VNC. 
> >   Xorg fails to start during normal boot after installation.
> > 
> > - 64bit F17 PVHVM guest: X fails to start so VNC install must be used, 
> > install works OK thru VNC. 
> >   Xorg fails to start during normal boot after installation.
> > 
> > (PVHVM == HVM fully virtualized guest with optimized Xen PV drivers.
> > Optimized Xen PVHVM drivers are nowadays included and used as a default 
> > with 
> > recent upstream Linux kernel versions (2.6.36+), so disk/net IO doesn't 
> > have to be emulated by Xen Qemu-dm.)
> > 
> > I wonder if the problem with X failing to start is related to:
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DRI2DriversOnly
> > 
> > Xen HVM guests have Qemu-dm emulated Cirrus VGA adapter (or stdvga) visible 
> > to the VM.. 
> > which doesn't have DRM/KMS drivers, and I think it's the same for 
> > xen-fbfront. 
> > I think I saw Cirrus (Qemu) DRM/KMS driver being worked on dri-devel 
> > mailinglist.. 
> 
> You are hitting https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810040 I think.
> 

Yes, that was the problem with F17 PV domUs! After I remove fprintd and 
fprintd-pam rpms
GDM works OK on the Xen pvfb and I can login to the desktop.


However there's a different problem with F17 HVM guests. There Xorg doesn't 
start at all.
"X startup failed, falling back to text mode" when I try to boot the F17 DVD 
installer .iso.
Also "Starting Show Plymouth Boot Screen..." is [FAILED].

When I run "X" manually from the console I get this in Xorg.0.log:

LoadModule: "xaa"
Warning, couldn't open module xaa
UnloadModule: "xaa"
Unloading: xaa
CIRRUS: Failed to load module "xaa" (module does not exist, 0)
UnloadModule: "cirrus"
..
Fatal server error:
no screens found
..
Server terminated with error (1).


So it looks like Xorg requires xaa module for cirrus, but it's not there 
anymore.
I guess this is related to the DRI2Only-feature in F17 ?

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DRI2DriversOnly


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Re: [Fedora-xen] Fedora 17 testing as Xen VM / Xorg issue

2012-05-29 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:45:37PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just did some installs with F17 RC4 (the GA version) as a Xen VM.
> 
> Xen host/dom0: RHEL 5.8 x86_64 with the included Xen rpms.
> 
> Tested F17 RC4 VMs:
> 
>   - 32bit F17 PV domU: graphical GUI install works OK using the Xen 
> vfb/pvfb
> but Xorg fails to start during normal boot after installation.
> 
>   - 64bit F17 PV domU: graphical GUI install works OK using the Xen 
> vfb/pvfb 
> but Xorg fails to start during normal boot after installation.
> 
>   - 32bit F17 PVHVM guest: X fails to start so VNC install must be used, 
> install works OK thru VNC. 
> Xorg fails to start during normal boot after installation.
> 
>   - 64bit F17 PVHVM guest: X fails to start so VNC install must be used, 
> install works OK thru VNC. 
> Xorg fails to start during normal boot after installation.
> 
> (PVHVM == HVM fully virtualized guest with optimized Xen PV drivers.
> Optimized Xen PVHVM drivers are nowadays included and used as a default with 
> recent upstream Linux kernel versions (2.6.36+), so disk/net IO doesn't have 
> to be emulated by Xen Qemu-dm.)
> 
> I wonder if the problem with X failing to start is related to:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DRI2DriversOnly
> 
> Xen HVM guests have Qemu-dm emulated Cirrus VGA adapter (or stdvga) visible 
> to the VM.. 
> which doesn't have DRM/KMS drivers, and I think it's the same for 
> xen-fbfront. 
> I think I saw Cirrus (Qemu) DRM/KMS driver being worked on dri-devel 
> mailinglist.. 

You are hitting https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810040 I think.

> 
> Any ideas/comments? 
> 
> -- Pasi
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Re: [Fedora-xen] Fedora 17 testing as Xen VM / Xorg issue

2012-05-28 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:45:37PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just did some installs with F17 RC4 (the GA version) as a Xen VM.
> 
> Xen host/dom0: RHEL 5.8 x86_64 with the included Xen rpms.
> 
> Tested F17 RC4 VMs:
> 
>   - 32bit F17 PV domU: graphical GUI install works OK using the Xen 
> vfb/pvfb
> but Xorg fails to start during normal boot after installation.
> 
>   - 64bit F17 PV domU: graphical GUI install works OK using the Xen 
> vfb/pvfb 
> but Xorg fails to start during normal boot after installation.
> 
>   - 32bit F17 PVHVM guest: X fails to start so VNC install must be used, 
> install works OK thru VNC. 
> Xorg fails to start during normal boot after installation.
> 
>   - 64bit F17 PVHVM guest: X fails to start so VNC install must be used, 
> install works OK thru VNC. 
> Xorg fails to start during normal boot after installation.
> 

and I forgot to mention that all the installs above worked OK,
and all the tested F17 Xen VMs do work OK, with text-mode console. 

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[Fedora-xen] Fedora 17 testing as Xen VM / Xorg issue

2012-05-28 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello,

I just did some installs with F17 RC4 (the GA version) as a Xen VM.

Xen host/dom0: RHEL 5.8 x86_64 with the included Xen rpms.

Tested F17 RC4 VMs:

- 32bit F17 PV domU: graphical GUI install works OK using the Xen 
vfb/pvfb
  but Xorg fails to start during normal boot after installation.

- 64bit F17 PV domU: graphical GUI install works OK using the Xen 
vfb/pvfb 
  but Xorg fails to start during normal boot after installation.

- 32bit F17 PVHVM guest: X fails to start so VNC install must be used, 
install works OK thru VNC. 
  Xorg fails to start during normal boot after installation.

- 64bit F17 PVHVM guest: X fails to start so VNC install must be used, 
install works OK thru VNC. 
  Xorg fails to start during normal boot after installation.

(PVHVM == HVM fully virtualized guest with optimized Xen PV drivers.
Optimized Xen PVHVM drivers are nowadays included and used as a default with 
recent upstream Linux kernel versions (2.6.36+), so disk/net IO doesn't have to 
be emulated by Xen Qemu-dm.)

I wonder if the problem with X failing to start is related to:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DRI2DriversOnly

Xen HVM guests have Qemu-dm emulated Cirrus VGA adapter (or stdvga) visible to 
the VM.. 
which doesn't have DRM/KMS drivers, and I think it's the same for xen-fbfront. 
I think I saw Cirrus (Qemu) DRM/KMS driver being worked on dri-devel 
mailinglist.. 

Any ideas/comments? 

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