[Fedora-xen] FW: [IA64]We have successfully booted dom0/domU/domVTI (xen/ia64) on FC5

[Zhang, Xiantao]

>> 	After some hard debug and work around, now we've got xen/ia64
> dom0/domU/domVTI both up on FC5-IA64. Attached is the snapshot.
> Woohoo!  :-)
>> 	We still use python2.4.2 contained in FC5 for test.
>> 	We need following changes to make things happen:
>> 	- xen-tools is not built and integrated into the RPM package.
>> 	Typically we know there're 3 major directories on
>> 	xen-ia64-unstable.hg: xen,linux-sparse and tools. All three
>> 	need to be kept consistence with each other. However current
>> 	fedora-kernel-ia64 only incorporates former two and tools is
>> 	totally missed. We tried to build the tools individually from
>> 	xen-ia64-unstable under same Rev (10150), and then install to
>> 	target box manually.
> You need to install the xen rpm which is available from my yum
> repository.  See here for instructions: 
>     https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2006-May/msg00140.html

OK, we will do a try.

>> 	- The configuration files for dom0/domU seems a big difference
>> 	compared to xen-ia64-unstable.hg. (Why?) Currently the ext3 is
>> 	compiled as module, however initrd doesn't work for domU even
>> 	when we add "ramdisk=" in config file. So we change ext3 to be
>> 	kernel built-in, and then domU can boot up immediately.
> 
> Ok, I'll fix that in the rpm.

OK.

>> 	- Xen-ia64-unstable.hg doesn't have IDE devices configured for
>> 	domU, however fedora-kernel-ia64 does, which wastes much time
>> 	for probe. If the configuration file can be kept consistence
>> 	with xen-ia64-unstable.hg, above issues are gone.
> That's my mistake too.  I'll fix it.
OK too:)
>> 	After above 2 changes, both domU and domVTI can be boot
successfully.
>>
>> 	Following are other tricky issues we've observed:
>> 	- brctl package is not integrated into FC5 and so vnif is not
>> 	available now. People need to install brctl manually and we'll
>> 	try network later. Is it possible to add dependency check upon
>> 	brctl in spec file?
> 
> The dependency is in the xen rpm...

Clear now.

>> 	- When installing xen0 rpm package, it depends on xen rpm
>> 	package. However we didn't find the xen rpm package, and had
>> 	to install with "nodeps". Actually xen image has been included
>> 	in xen0 rpm package. 
> This is a confusing misnomer in Fedora.  The xen rpm contains the xen
> tools, not the xen hypervisor.  Does this make things clearer?
  
See now. Different viewpoint to it:)

>> 	- Is it possible to use same configuration file for xen0/xenU
>> 	just like current xen-ia64-unstable.hg? Or at least give
>> 	a configuration option to user in spec.
> Right now the build follows the pattern of the other architectures in
> the spec file.  If Juan is interested in pursuing a -xen kernel
> instead of -xen0/-xenU, I'd be happy to go that route.

Good news! If done, it will largely save build time.

Thanks 
Xiantao