[Fedora-xen] Fedora 8 - Linux HVM Guest - PV Drivers

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Emre Erenoglu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to use a linux HVM guest (DomU) with Paravirtual drivers for
> network and disk access on my updated Fedora 8 setup.
> 
> In order to achieve this, I've downloaded the source package of appropriate
> (same version) Xen Hypervisor from redhat website, then copied this source
> to my DomU and compiled the unmodified_drivers folder following the steps
> mentioned in the README file.
> 
> Everything went fine and I got my xen-platform-pci, xen-baloon, xen-vnif and
> xen-vbd (.ko) drivers.
> 
> They modprobe fine, however, after some time, the DomU freezes up.
> 
> Specifically, system freezes quicker (usually) with only vbd, and takes more
> time to free with only xen-vnif loaded into memory. When I say only,
> xen-platform-pci always loaded, but only the mentioned driver is netfront or
> block-front, others are ioemu.
> 
> xen-vnif also complains about a memory leak when it's rmmod 'ed.
> 
> Shall I file a bug report?

This sounds to me like a bug in those paravirt drivers, ie. file a bug 
with Xen.

Rich.

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