On 05/17/2011 01:04 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:49:18PM +0200, Mario wrote:
On 05/16/2011 03:22 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 03:15:53PM +0200, Mario wrote:
On 05/16/2011 03:09 PM, Mario wrote:
On 05/16/2011 03:06 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 14:04 +0100, Mario wrote:
So you are telling me that 2.6.38 does not have a working networking on
PV guests, but HVM does?
Yes, netback did not go upstream until 2.6.39 so PV networking (either
for PV or HVM guests with PV drivers) will not work on mainline kernels
before that.
Emulated HVM networking does not use netback so that will work on
earlier kernels (it depends on qemu)
Ian.
Ok, thanks, it all makes more sense now. :-)
Ian, while i have your attention, any idea why some framebuffer devices
blank screen when dom0 boots up. I have seen this happen mostly on older
vga cards but its not a rule. Should i just keep on blacklisting kernel
modules for those cards, or is there some kind of a more general
solution?
You could try "nomodeset" parameter to disable KMS modesetting..
(and possibly adding "console=tty0")
Xen patches for DRM/KMS haven't been merged to upstream Linux yet.
-- Pasi
nomodeset and/or nofb do not seem to help.
console=tty0 also does not seem to have any effect.
Only way to successfuly boot dom0 is with one of these:
CONFIG_FB=n
or
echo "blacklist s3fb"> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-s3fb.conf
As soon as fb device is modprobed, booting stops, and server freezes.
Can anything else be done? Perhaps some setting for xen in kernel..?
Set up a serial console and configure Xen + dom0 kernel log to it..
and see what goes wrong. http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenSerialConsole
ie. does dom0 kernel crash while loading s3fb?
-- Pasi
Well, i forgot to mention one more method, that is to add: fbcon=map:X
Where X is something that is not in /proc/fb, basicly an invalid device.
So, for example: fbcon=map:9
To make it short, dom0 freezes/crashes and it never reaches a full
booted up state, so it will not respond to pings. The last thing
displayed on the screen is s3fb being loaded and that /dev/fb0 was created.
When i first experienced this problem, it was back when i first tried
Xen 4.0.1, however, i had just a blank screen with blinking cursor to
work with. So i had to set up a serial console to figure out what was
wrong. After seeing how it stops on framebuffer, i blacklisted the
module, and it worked. I kept on doing so on every other setup i have
made, but now, one year later, i was wondering if this is ever going to
be fixed, or if i can somehow help to get it fixed.. :-)
m.
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