Re: [Xen-users] Re: Failure to start X-Server for Xen on openSUSE 11.2

[Boris Derzhavets <bderzhavets@xxxxxxxxx>]

> you can easily get the patch from https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=325743
> and apply it yourself,
> its just that this particular fix was too late to make the final build as it had not been fully
> tested.

Please, view :-

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553690  (1)

1. It has been applied to some particular Jan's xenified kernel source with my .config (attached). It doesn't help much at least for myself  and generates  the same crash serial log as V7 patched 2.6.31.5 kernel on Fedora 11.

2. With "kernel /boot/xen.gz mem=4G"  on 11.2 final release I got  2.6.35.5-xen kernel running under Xen. 
However , vm-install just crashes :-

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555181  (2)

Libvirt seems to be broken

Attempt  of F12 DomU install via normal xm-profile using local HTTP mirror ,
like mentioned in first bug  hangs attempting download installation image,
patched kernel (1) on 8 GB box does pass this phase , but crashes during
package deployment phase mostly  with serial output ( second attached in (1)).
This serial log in (1) seems to be fair.

Too many Xen related things are broken in (11.2 final release) at a time.
Personally, i am concerned about rebased patch set (> V7).

Thanks.
Boris.

--- On Fri, 11/13/09, Andrew Lyon <andrew.lyon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Andrew Lyon <andrew.lyon@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Re: Failure to start X-Server for Xen on openSUSE 11.2
To: "Boris Derzhavets" <bderzhavets@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Friday, November 13, 2009, 8:39 AM

I don't think thats a very fair comment Boris, Jan works extremely hard to forward port the Xen dom0 to new kernels, its just that this particular fix was too late to make the final build as it had not been fully tested.

There are a lot of people who want to run Xen on workstations with X, but even more who run Xen servers headless or with serial console so I understand the decision, anyway you can easily get the patch from https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=325743 and apply it yourself, updated versions of the 11.2 2.6.31 kernel will be available in ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/openSUSE-11.2/src/ for a long time so thanks to Jan & openSUSE we have the choice of using a more up to date and supported "classic" Xen dom0 kernel.

Andy

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Boris Derzhavets <bderzhavets@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It sounds like Xen is not important enough for openSUSE 11.2 final release.
I don't have any more questions.

Boris.

--- On Fri, 11/13/09, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-users] Re: Failure to start X-Server for Xen on openSUSE 11.2
To: "Boris Derzhavets" <bderzhavets@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Friday, November 13, 2009, 2:58 AM

Yes, the fix was not considered important enough to be taken for
the final release (and you may simply have missed that I set the target
milestone of the bug to "unspecified" just to express this). You'll have to
wait for a kernel maintenance update...

Jan

>>> Boris Derzhavets <bderzhavets@xxxxxxxxx> 13.11.09 08:23 >>>

Regardless same bug was reported against RC2 :

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552492

It's present in final release :-

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555172

Boris



     


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