[CentOS-virt] Fedora 12 2.6.31.5-127.fc12 domU on CentOS 5.4 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen fails to boot
Pasi Kärkkäinen
pasik at iki.fi
Tue Dec 1 18:12:55 UTC 2009
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 09:22:55AM -0500, Scot P. Floess wrote:
>
> So, to be honest, I don't recall seeing that option in my BIOS - but I've
> not looked either. I installed the x86_64 version of F11 and it works
> fine.
>
> Again, this isn't really a big issue as this is all stuff on my home
> network. I was pleased just to be able to run F11 in some capacity as a
> Xen guest :)
>
> Now, if I could just get F12 to work ;)
>
What's the problem with F12? :)
Works for me, both as Xen PV domU and as dom0 (using custom dom0 kernel).
-- Pasi
> On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>
> >On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 09:44:13PM -0500, Scot P. Floess wrote:
> >>
> >>So, as it turns out, my issue seems to be running a CentOS 5.4 x86_64 host
> >>and an i386 F11 VM. I used another machine running CentOS 5.4 i386
> >>host and was able to launch, no changes, the F11 i386 VM.
> >>
> >>Is there any reason I should see the failure listed below? I've not yet
> >>tried to install F11 x86_64 as a VM on the CentOS 5.4 x86_64 host.
> >>
> >
> >Hmm.. iirc F11 GA kernel has some xen-related bugs (at least NX and xsave).
> >Not sure if your crash is one of those though..
> >
> >Did you try toggling the NX (No eXecute memory protection) setting in
> >BIOS?
> >
> >There was workarounds for those in post RHEL 5.4 virttest kernels, so
> >could try those aswell..
> >
> >Some bugzillas that might be related:
> >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502826
> >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524719
> >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525290
> >
> >You could try updated post-5.4 Xen / dom0 kernel rpms from here:
> >
> >http://people.redhat.com/clalance/virttest/
> >or from: http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5/
> >
> >-- Pasi
> >
> >>
> >>
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