[Fedora-xen] Re: [fedora-virt] bzImage dom0 kernel support in latest rawhide Xen packages

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 06:29:57PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 01:35:23PM +0100, Jan ONDREJ (SAL) wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 01:29:39PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > > Jan ONDREJ (SAL) wrote:
> > > > [root at note ~]# file /boot/xen-3.3.gz /boot/xen/vmlinux /boot/xen/initrd.img /boot/xen/bzImage
> > > > /boot/xen-3.3.gz:     gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Tue Feb  3 12:36:39 2009, max compression
> > > > /boot/xen/vmlinux:    ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped
> > > 
> > > "stripped".  This probably is the problem.
> > > 
> > > > /boot/xen/initrd.img: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Wed Feb  4 12:00:01 2009, max compression
> > > > /boot/xen/bzImage:    Linux kernel x86 boot executable RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x2, Normal VGA
> > > 
> > > Try this one instead of vmlinux (unstripped vmlinux should work too).
> > 
> > Already tryed both of them. Stripped, unstripped vmlinux, gzip compressed
> > vmlinux, bzImage. Always same problem.
> > 
> 
> I've been using gzipped vmlinux pv_ops dom0 kernel successfully. 
> 
> I still haven't tried that new bzImage support .. will try that today or tomorrow.
> 

I can confirm that bzImage pv_ops dom0 kernels boot OK with xen 3.3.1-3.

I'm running on x86-32 (PAE) and I was using arch/x86/boot/bzImage from
2.6.29-rc3-tip as a dom0 kernel.

-- Pasi