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RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Paravirtualized xenlinux/ia64 available

To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>, <xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Paravirtualized xenlinux/ia64 available
From: "Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 10:48:09 -0700
Cc: "Munoz, Alberto J" <alberto.j.munoz@xxxxxxxxx>
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Thread-topic: [Xen-ia64-devel] Paravirtualized xenlinux/ia64 available
After working around the same problems you saw (thanks for
finding them... it saved me some time!), I got a successful
boot on ski all the way to a login prompt.

I suspect one of two problems:

1) Different command line?  I use:

ski bootloader xen skilinux nomca console=simcons simscsi=/var/xen/sd

Note that there is no "a" on the end of /var/xen/sd even though
the filename has one.

2) Missing simulated root file system?  I use:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/ski/get.php?file=sda.gz

and unpack it and place it at /var/xen/sda.  There is
also a Debian version if you prefer.  See Auxiliary files at:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/ski/download.php

Let me know if that helps.

Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tian, Kevin [mailto:kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 11:33 PM
> To: Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins); 
> xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Munoz, Alberto J
> Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Paravirtualized xenlinux/ia64 available
> 
> Hi, Dan,
>       It still doesn't work, and could you give more detail 
> instructions about steps to run on ski simulator and real hardware.
> 
>       Are the steps you described upon zx1_defconfig only 
> adapts to zx1 machine, or also works for ski? If only for zx1 
> machine, why need to add hpsim_cons like stuff for 
> CONFIG_XEN? If also for ski, I always encountered "Can't open 
> root device" problem.
> 
>       I also tried to copy sim_defconfig, and there's no 
> output after "Freeing unused kernel memory: 192kB freed" but 
> the keyboard can work. Before reaching this point, at least I 
> need to change something for para-xenlinux:
>       1. Comment following line in arch/ia64/Makefile:
>               #drivers-$(CONFIG_XEN)          += arch/ia64/hp/sim/
>               Or else the compilation will fail due to double 
> inclusion
>       2. Comment arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c:
> static inline int __init
> early_console_setup (char *cmdline)
> {
> #if 0
> //#ifdef CONFIG_XEN
>         extern struct console hpsim_cons;
>         register_console(&hpsim_cons);
>         return 0;
> #else
>       Or else the hpsim_cons is registered twice and then 
> xenlinux will search console list and output same string 
> repeatedly for ever:
> Linux version 2.6.11 (gcc version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat 
> Linux 3.2.3-20)) #7 SMP Sun May 15 18:30:58 PDT 2005
> 
>       But after all above done, it still can't reach user 
> prompt. Since I'm not familiar with ski simulator 
> environment, could you give a step-by-step instruction for 
> run on ski? :)
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Kevin
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins) 
> [mailto:dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx]
> >Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 9:07 PM
> >To: Tian, Kevin; xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; xen-devel
> >Cc: Munoz, Alberto J
> >Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Paravirtualized xenlinux/ia64 available
> >
> >Yes, like real Linux/ia64, it is not possible to run the
> >same Xenlinux bits both on ski and on real hardware.
> >A different configuration and build is required.  The
> >config difference is the same as it was with the
> >privified xenlinux... I think you did that successfully
> >before (with privified xenlinux) so give that config
> >file a try and if it doesn't work, let me know.
> >
> >BTW, I think I know how to fix this problem (unable
> >to run same bits on ski and real hardware) for real
> >Linux/ia64 and Xen/ia64, but it would take a day or
> >two and hasn't bubbled up to the top of my list yet.
> >
> >Dan
> >
> >P.S. Please move further replies on this topic
> >to xen-ia64-devel only.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Tian, Kevin [mailto:kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx]
> >> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 2:35 AM
> >> To: Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins);
> >> xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; xen-devel
> >> Cc: Munoz, Alberto J
> >> Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Paravirtualized 
> xenlinux/ia64 available
> >>
> >> Hi, Dan,
> >>    We tried latest xeno-unstable-ia64 bk tree on a para-virtualized
> >> dom0 following your instructions. However it failed to 
> find root fs on
> >> ski:
> >>
> >> VFS: Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown-block(8,2)
> >> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> >> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> >> unknown-block(8,2)
> >>
> >>    The bk info is:
> >>   ChangeSet@xxxxxx, 2005-05-10 15:58:27-07:00, 
> xen-ia64.adm@xxxxxxxxxx
> >>   Merge bk://xen.bkbits.net/xeno-unstable.bk
> >>   into  bkbits.net:/repos/x/xen-ia64/xeno-unstable-ia64.bk
> >>
> >>    However we then tried previous binary-patched dom0 with code in
> >> our trunk (VTI disabled), it can work to user prompt. This
> >> means the ski
> >> environment still working well.
> >>
> >>    Do you ever see similar error on this revision? Maybe we missed
> >> some important step or... ski environment needs some change?
> >> The command
> >> to start ski is:
> >>     "ski bootloader xen paralinux nomca simscsi=`pwd`/sd"
> >>
> >>    Here paralinux is built upon
> >> bk://xen-ia64.bkbits.net/xenlinux-ia64-2.6.11.bk.
> >>
> >>    BTW, just saw a small bug in vcpu.c:
> >> IA64FAULT vcpu_itc_d(VCPU *vcpu, UINT64
> >>            ...
> >>        if (((itir & ~0xfc) >> 2) < PAGE_SHIFT) {
> >> Should be:
> >>        if (((itir & 0xfc) >> 2) < PAGE_SHIFT) {
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Kevin
> >> >-----Original Message-----
> >> >From: xen-ia64-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> >[mailto:xen-ia64-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> >> Magenheimer,
> >> >Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)
> >> >Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 4:56 AM
> >> >To: xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; xen-devel
> >> >Cc: Munoz, Alberto J
> >> >Subject: [Xen-ia64-devel] Paravirtualized xenlinux/ia64 available
> >> >
> >>
> 

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