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Re: [Xen-users] VNC, framebuffer at boot
Henning Sprang wrote:
On 2/1/07, Jim <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
> Hi,
> I try to boot some Ubuntu live CD or Mandriva Live CD in full
virtualization
> mode (domU, then), but their boot prompt are mostly "framebuffered".
> When I connect to the domU through VNC, I see nothing but a black
window.
> What workaround should be used?
> Thank you.
>
Try a different distro. I found that booting Ubuntu in SuSE 10.2
produced an unreadable display, however it looked fine booting from a
FC6 system.
While I have some of the major distributions at hand here and will try
it later, a lot of people won't want to change their main distribution
because of this.
I agree, that's not the ideal way of fixing the problem, but it worked
for me.
So, maybe it can be solved another way, therefore some questions:
- Did you use the same domU config files on both?
- which Xen packages and versions did you use (as well on the failing
system as on the successful system).
In both cases I used the Xen packages that came with the OS. The domU
config files were similar, but not identical. The differences were in
the disk layout, which I don't think would make a difference. No
differences in the graphical settings.
- was the display "unreadable" or actually just blank? (my symptoms
were that it was just blank)
Unreadable. Text was just a smear or only parts of the letters showed
up in one case. Blank in another. I booting multiple distros to see
what would happen. The set was Ubuntu, SuSE 93, Centos 4.4, Debian
sarge and FC6. I dont' recall the details of each at this time, however.
I can't tell anymore, on which distributions I had the problems, I am
playing around with quite some of them, but i will see what fedora
brings...
Henning
Keep us posted.
Jim.
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