Fedora xen - Jan 2006 - Re: Simple testing results for Xen and VMXon FC5-test2.

>-----Original Message-----
>> 1. *** IA32E hasn''t RPMS about Xen hypervisor and Xen0/XenU
kernels.
>__FAIL__
>
>It''s coming.  I hope.  The upstream x86_64 stuff from
linux-2.6-merge
>doesn''t actually compile at the moment (though that''s easy
to fix), and
>once compiled it fails in different, compiler-dependent ways on some of
>my hardware.  I''ve got a minimally stable boot now on a different
box,
>but the upstream base in this case is proving hard to work with.
I am very glad to hear it is coming. :) Hope we can see it in the FC5-test3
x86_64 packages.
>
>> 2. *** In order to boot up IA32 Xen0, I have to add pci=noacpi as the
boot
>> parameters of Xen0 kernel, or system will hang when initial PCI. I
don''t know if
>it is only related to my Machine.
>
>It''s certainly hardware-dependent, but you''re not the only
person
>reporting the need for such options.  Please open a bugzilla so that we
>can track this one properly, as we''d really like to automate such
>options as much as possible for the main release.
>
>One thing that would be worth knowing is whether the main, non-xen
>rawhide SMP kernel boots on this box.  The UP kernel disables a bunch of
>advanced hardware enablement for compatibility purposes, but the SMP one
>should match Xen as closely as possible.
I am not sure how common used my machine is. :( But it can work with latest Xen
+ 2.6.12 kernel in the RHEL4u2 or FC4. So the new problem may be related with
new kernel 2.6.15? I can fire a new bug about it. My testing machine is SMP
enabled.
>
>> 8. Couldn''t get Xen Changeset by "xm info" or
"xm dmesg".
>
>Not sure how easy that would be to add, since we don''t build it out
of
>Mercurial directly but rather out of a tarballed copy from the CVS build
>system.  I''m being careful to add the changeset info to the
changelog in
>the rpm, though.
Em. If we can found some changeset info in changelog or other way, it may bring
some help to customers and developers. :-)
>
>Thanks,
> Stephen
Best Regards,
Yongkang (Kangkang) 永康

Hi,

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 23:57 +0800, You, Yongkang wrote:
> I am not sure how common used my machine is. :( But it can work with
> latest Xen + 2.6.12 kernel in the RHEL4u2 or FC4. So the new problem
> may be related with new kernel 2.6.15? I can fire a new bug about it. 
Thanks, please do.

> >Not sure how easy that would be to add, since we don''t build
it out of
> >Mercurial directly but rather out of a tarballed copy from the CVS
build
> >system.  I''m being careful to add the changeset info to the
changelog in
> >the rpm, though.
> 
> Em. If we can found some changeset info in changelog or other way, it
> may bring some help to customers and developers. :-)
Yes, it''s already in the changelogs: "rpm -q --changelog xen"
shows me
...
* Mon Jan 30 2006 <sct@redhat.com> - 3.0-0.20060130.fc5
- Update to xen-unstable from 20060130 (cset 8705)

--Stephen