[TriLUG] Xen and FC5

[Andrew Ball]

You can also try vanilla Xen, which generally patches vanilla kernels from
kernel.org
that ought to work, at least for releases.

http://www.xensource.com/download/index_3.0.4.html

There's an RPM for FC5 here.

You can also compile from source, which is what I often do.

You need Mercurial to get the source code:

http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/

Then you would do

hg clone http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.0.4-testing.hg

cd xen-3.0.4-testing.hg
make dist
cd dist
./install.sh

Hope this helps.

Peace.
Andrew

On 4/15/07, J.C. Jones <jonesjc at intrex.net> wrote:
>
> Will give it a shot!
>
> jcj
>
> Jason Tower wrote:
>
> > ditch the .20 kernel and use an earlier one:
> >
> > http://www.trilug.org/~jason/fc5_kernels/
> >
> > J.C. Jones wrote:
> >
> >> Jason,
> >>
> >> kernel /xen.gz-2.6.20-1.2312.fc5
> >> module /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2312.fc5xen0.....
> >>
> >> by the way,  it is "making device-mapper control node" instead of
> >> "mode" as I wrote earlier.
> >>
> >> where can I get earlier versions?\
> >>
> >> jcj
> >>
> >> Jason Tower wrote:
> >>
> >>> what kernel are you booting?  i've heard the latest ones have lots
> >>> of problems, eariler kernels work much better.
> >>>
> >>> J.C. Jones wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> All,
> >>>>
> >>>> The actual hang line is " making device-mapper control mode "
> >>>>
> >>>> More details.
> >>>> Initially, I was getting a kernel panic message, I added in a line
> >>>> at boot
> >>>> swiotlb=force
> >>>> With this in the grub, it would get to "making device-mapper
> >>>> control mode", pause for short period then show call trace lines
> >>>> and some of data. It would then lockup.
> >>>>
> >>>> Now I have added
> >>>> iommu=force
> >>>> prior to the swiotlb line in grub
> >>>>
> >>>> No progress past "making device - mapper control mode" line, no
> >>>> extra call trace lines, etc -- just a blinking cursor.
> >>>> repeating the boot after doing crtl-alt-del gives me the same
> >>>> thing, but with call trace lines, etc
> >>>>
> >>>> After a couple more boots, process goes to same point, waits about
> >>>> 30 seconds, then reboots??
> >>>>
> >>>> jcj
> >>>>
> >>>> J.C. Jones wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> All,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Any suggestions for installing xen to FC5 and getting it to work?
> >>>>> I followed the FC5 quickstart for Xen, but when I reboot using
> >>>>> xen0 kernel, it gets to something called control mapper, pauses a
> >>>>> long time, then a list of call trace lines appear, after which it
> >>>>> appears to lock up.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> jcj
> >>>>>
> >>
>
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