<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Fresh install Xen 3.4.1 via xen-3.4.1-1.src.rpm with LZMA support patch + libvirt 0.7.0-6 (preview) tested OK with F11 PV DomU install. Kernel (supporting Dom0 ) - 2.6.30.2 xenified aka Suse Attempt to install F12 PV DomU ( Core2Duo E8400, 8 GB RAM ,SATA ) :- [root@ServerXenSRC ~]# virt-install --debug -n f12pv -r 1024 --vcpus=1 \ -f /dev/sda12 --vnc -p -l "ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/x86_64/os" Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:36:36 DEBUG Launched with command line: /usr/sbin/virt-install --debug -n f12pv -r 1024 --vcpus=1 -f /dev/sda12 --vnc -p -l ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/x86_64/os Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:36:36 DEBUG Requesting libvirt URI default Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:36:36 DEBUG Received libvirt URI xen:/// Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:36:36 DEBUG Requesting virt method 'xen', hv type 'default'. Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:36:36 DEBUG Received virt method 'xen' Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:36:36 DEBUG Hypervisor name is 'xen' Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:36:36 DEBUG DistroInstaller location is a network source. Starting install... Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:36:36 DEBUG Attempting to detect distro: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:36:37 DEBUG Fetching URI: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/x86_64/os/.treeinfo Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:36:39 DEBUG Saved file to /var/lib/xen/virtinst-..treeinfo.WVH7xk Retrieving file .treeinfo... | 1.2 kB 00:00 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:36:39 DEBUG Fetching URI: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/x86_64/os/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:37:11 DEBUG Saved file to /var/lib/xen/virtinst-vmlinuz.gFkrVE kB/s | 3.5 MB 00:30 Retrieving file vmlinuz... | 3.5 MB 00:30 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:37:11 DEBUG Fetching URI: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/x86_64/os/images/pxeboot/initrd.img Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:40:23 DEBUG Saved file to /var/lib/xen/virtinst-initrd.img.IFk0Bn/s | 22 MB 03:10 Retrieving file initrd.img... | 22 MB 03:10 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:40:23 DEBUG Auto detected OS type as: linux Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:40:23 DEBUG Auto detected OS variant as: fedora12 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:40:23 DEBUG Creating guest from: <domain type='xen'> <name>f12pv</name> <currentMemory>1048576</currentMemory> <memory>1048576</memory> <uuid>3279f520-308c-127c-c7e6-be66fb36fa7b</uuid> <os> <type arch='x86_64'>linux</type> <kernel>/var/lib/xen/virtinst-vmlinuz.gFkrVE</kernel> <initrd>/var/lib/xen/virtinst-initrd.img.IFk0Bn</initrd> <cmdline>method=ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/x86_64/os</cmdline> </os> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>destroy</on_reboot> <on_crash>destroy</on_crash> <vcpu>1</vcpu> <devices> <disk type='block' device='disk'> <source dev='/dev/sda12'/> <target dev='xvda' bus='xen'/> </disk> <interface type='bridge'> <source bridge='eth0'/> <mac address='00:16:36:23:d9:66'/> </interface> <input type='mouse' bus='xen'/> <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' keymap='en-us'/> </devices> </domain> Creating domain... | 0 B 00:01 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:40:24 DEBUG Created guest, looking to see if it is running Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:40:24 DEBUG Launching console callback Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:40:24 DEBUG Saving XML boot config: <domain type='xen'> <name>f12pv</name> <currentMemory>1048576</currentMemory> <memory>1048576</memory> <uuid>3279f520-308c-127c-c7e6-be66fb36fa7b</uuid> <bootloader>/usr/bin/pygrub</bootloader> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>restart</on_crash> <vcpu>1</vcpu> <devices> <disk type='block' device='disk'> <source dev='/dev/sda12'/> <target dev='xvda' bus='xen'/> </disk> <interface type='bridge'> <source bridge='eth0'/> <mac address='00:16:36:23:d9:66'/> </interface> <input type='mouse' bus='xen'/> <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' keymap='en-us'/> </devices> </domain> Virt-viewer hangs with message "Waiting for guest domain to be created" Boris --- On Sun, 8/23/09, Pasi K�rkk�inen <pasik@iki.fi> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> From: Pasi K�rkk�inen <pasik@iki.fi> Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] BZIP2 and LZMA support patch for Xen PV domU bootloader To: "Mark McLoughlin" <markmc@redhat.com> Cc: fedora-xen@redhat.com Date: Sunday, August 23, 2009, 12:45 PM <div class="plainMail">On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:04:09PM +0300, Pasi K�rkk�inen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 07:02:12PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 19:44 +0300, Pasi K�rkk�inen wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 05:05:17PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 18:41 +0300, Pasi K�rkk�inen wrote: > > > > > > > > > # CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP is not set > > > > > # CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2 is not set > > > > > CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA=y > > > > > > > > > > OK, so the problem is the rawhide kernel is LZMA compressed. Wasn't this > > > > > changed back to GZIP earlier? > > > > > > > > Thanks for pointing that out, see: > > > > > > > > <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515831" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515831</a> > > > > > > > > It got disabled on a branch for the F12 Alpha release, but never got > > > > disabled on the devel/ branch. Should be fixed now. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks. Now I'll just wait for the next kernel build.. :) > > > > > > (or try applying the patch Chris sent to support BZIP2 and LZMA for Xen PV bootloader). > > > > Testing Chris's patch would certainly be a good idea. LZMA will come > > back again in Fedora 13, so we should make sure to have the patch in > > good shape by then > > > > I actually already 'ported' the patch to Xen 3.4.1 and made sure it > compiles OK. I've included it (and extra gcc 4.4.0 compilefix) to this > email, and also sent them to xen-devel. > > atm I'm trying to make the patch work/apply with Fedora xen-3.4.1-1 src.rpm .. > and sorting out some fedora/rpm specific compilation failure... > Here's updated patch that actually works. I added it to xen-3.4.1-1.src.rpm and verified the resulting rpms are able to boot lzma compressed kernels. It's still not final patch, since the stubdom/pvgrub bzip2/lzma support is not yet included in this patch (until the proper method for Makefile hacks is determined upstream). -- Pasi </div> -----Inline Attachment Follows----- <div class="plainMail">-- Fedora-xen mailing list <a ymailto="mailto:Fedora-xen@redhat.com" href="/mc/compose?to=Fedora-xen@redhat.com">Fedora-xen@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen</a> </div></blockquote></td></tr></table>