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Re: [Xen-devel] xen.git branch reorg

To: bderzhavets@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] xen.git branch reorg
From: William Pitcock <nenolod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:33:13 -0500
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>, Xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Hmm.

I'll try to debug it if I have time over the weekend. It shouldn't be
very hard to do.

Do you have any specifics on what is failing?

William

On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 08:01 -0700, Boris Derzhavets wrote:
> I am talking about usual HVM DomUs.
> >the only difference is the running qemu-dm process or stub
> > domain.
> 
> That's failing with current 2.6.30-rc3-tip under Xen 3.4-rc3-pre
> at least through my experience.
> Should be well known issue for Jeremy.
> 
> Boris.
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Tue, 4/28/09, William Pitcock <nenolod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>         From: William Pitcock <nenolod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>         Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] xen.git branch reorg
>         To: bderzhavets@xxxxxxxxx
>         Cc: "Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>, "Xen-devel"
>         <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>         Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 10:51 AM
>         
>         I think you are talking about HVM PV drivers. HVM itself is no 
> different
>         than
>          booting a paravirtualized guest as far as the dom0 kernel is
>         concerned... the only difference is the running qemu-dm process or 
> stub
>         domain.
>         
>         William
>         
>         On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 02:14 -0700, Boris Derzhavets wrote:
>         > >I could pull a spare server out of the production 
>         > >grid for testing HVM under 2.6.30 if needed.
>         > 
>         > As far as to my knowledge Xen 3.4-rc3-pre Dom0 & (2.6.30-rc3-tip)
>         > support only PV DomUs. HVM is still unsolved problem.
>         > If i am wrong about that, please advise.
>         > 
>         > Boris.
>         > 
>         > 
>         > --- On Tue, 4/28/09, William Pitcock <nenolod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>         wrote:
>         >         From: William Pitcock <nenolod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>         >         Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] xen.git branch reorg
>         >         To: "Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
>         >         Cc: "Xen-devel" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>         >         Date:
>          Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 3:13 AM
>         >         
>         >         On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 16:48 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
> wrote:
>         >         > William Pitcock
>         >          wrote:
>         >         > > Yeah, it's working here now. Thanks for that.
>         >         > >
>         >         > > We intend to start testing the 3.4 release candidate
>         with 2.6.30
>         >         > > paravirt-ops dom0 in our test environment this weekend.
>         >         > >   
>         >         > 
>         >         > OK, that'll be interesting.  What's your test
>         environment?
>         >         
>         >         Paravirtualization-only nocona-based (early EM64T) Xeon 
> hardware,
>         with
>         >         nodes comprising of dual 2.8ghz CPUs with 8GB of memory, on 
> Debian
>         >         testing.
>         >         
>         >         Production is presently at 3.2 with XenLinux 2.6.18 patches
>         rebased
>         >         against 2.6.26. Production machines
>          are dual opteron 2216 machines
>         with
>         >         8GB-16GB of RAM, with both HVM and Paravirtualized domains.
>         >         
>         >         The test and production grids use the same storage backend, 
> which
>         is
>         >         presently provided through exporting LVM volumes with AoE 
> and
>         >         cluster-lvm.
>         >         
>         >         I could pull a spare server out of the production grid for 
> testing
>         HVM
>         >         under 2.6.30 if
>         >          needed.
>         >         
>         >         William
>         >         
>         >         
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