Hello, what about 3ware 9650 for Xen 3.1 / 3.2 ? I''ve installed latest Xen from repositories, modified the grub.conf (menu.lst), xend-config.sxp and so on. The box won''t boot up properly, it claims about 3ware-9xxx.ko is it because of: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2007-09/msg00654.html It this case it would be necessary to download source, and compile it. I''m just wondering cause I red somewhere 2.6.20 and newer fully supports 3ware 9650. Thanks, Adrian _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On October 24, 2008 04:25 am Adrian Gajan wrote:> what about 3ware 9650 for Xen 3.1 / 3.2 ? I''ve installed latest Xen > from repositories, modified the grub.conf (menu.lst), xend-config.sxp > and so on. The box won''t boot up properly, it claims about > 3ware-9xxx.koThe included Xen kernel is based on Linux 2.6.18, which does not support any 3Ware controllers newer than the 9550. None of the PCIe controllers are supported. You need a Linux kernel newer than 2.6.20 to get support for the 9650 and newer controllers. You either need to choose a different controller, choose a Linux distro that forward-ported Xen support to a newer Linux kernel, or choose a different virtualisation system. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
For what it''s worth, I''m running the stock kernel-xen out of rhel 5.2/centos 5.2/sci. linux 5.2 and it is recognizing the 3ware 9650 card just fine. Red hat 5 claims to be a 2.6.18 kernel but they have back-ported a lot of stuff into it. Before i did that, and I was using the 2.6.18 kernel out of the xen tarballs from xen.org, I couldn''t see the 3ware either. Steve Timm On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Freddie Cash wrote:> On October 24, 2008 04:25 am Adrian Gajan wrote: >> what about 3ware 9650 for Xen 3.1 / 3.2 ? I''ve installed latest Xen >> from repositories, modified the grub.conf (menu.lst), xend-config.sxp >> and so on. The box won''t boot up properly, it claims about >> 3ware-9xxx.ko > > The included Xen kernel is based on Linux 2.6.18, which does not support > any 3Ware controllers newer than the 9550. None of the PCIe controllers > are supported. You need a Linux kernel newer than 2.6.20 to get support > for the 9650 and newer controllers. > > You either need to choose a different controller, choose a Linux distro > that forward-ported Xen support to a newer Linux kernel, or choose a > different virtualisation system. > >-- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven C. Timm, Ph.D (630) 840-8525 timm@fnal.gov http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/ Fermilab Computing Division, Scientific Computing Facilities, Grid Facilities Department, FermiGrid Services Group, Assistant Group Leader. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
In Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Steven Timm <timm@fnal.gov> wrote:> For what it''s worth, I''m running the stock kernel-xen out of > rhel 5.2/centos 5.2/sci. linux 5.2 and it is recognizing the 3ware 9650 > card just fine. Red hat 5 claims to be a 2.6.18 kernel but they have > back-ported a lot of stuff into it. Before i did that, and I was > using the 2.6.18 kernel out of the xen tarballs from xen.org, I couldn''t > see the 3ware either. > > Steve Timm >Yes, the CentOS 5.2 kernel does have drivers for the 9650. There''s always the choice of compiling the drivers from 3wares site too. Grant McWilliams Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I''ll use Windows." Now they have two problems. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Grant McWilliams wrote:> In Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Steven Timm <timm@fnal.gov > <mailto:timm@fnal.gov>> wrote: > > For what it''s worth, I''m running the stock kernel-xen out of > rhel 5.2/centos 5.2/sci. linux 5.2 and it is recognizing the 3ware > 9650 > card just fine. Red hat 5 claims to be a 2.6.18 kernel but they have > back-ported a lot of stuff into it. Before i did that, and I was > using the 2.6.18 kernel out of the xen tarballs from xen.org > <http://xen.org>, I couldn''t see the 3ware either. > > Steve Timm > > > Yes, the CentOS 5.2 kernel does have drivers for the 9650. There''s > always the choice of compiling the drivers from 3wares site too. > > Grant McWilliams > > Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I''ll use > Windows." > Now they have two problems. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-usersI have found that you can install CentOS 5.2 with the latest drivers from 3ware with out a problem, using a kickstart script, and the ''driverdisk'' option. If you intend to upgrade the Kernel afterwards, you simply need to copy the 3w-9xxx.ko file from the old kernel''s /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ directory and adding it to the new kernel''s. Then rebuild your initrd with mkinitrd to include the 3w-9xxx.ko module. For the last year or so I''ve been working a lot with new customer servers wanting to run xen and 3ware on different raid cards. It comes down to a matching game. Which kernel are you running, and which 3ware driver from their website matches the one you''re using (or want to use.) You''ll probably want to review their table here for a list of Kernels with built-in compatibility, and Kernel modules you can download for "officially unsupported" kernels. http://3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=14546 -Kai Meyer _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users