[Fedora-xen] Xen status for FC7

[Frank Morane]

Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Frank Morane wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just did a fresh install of FC7 to see if xen would work out of the 
>> box.
>> Dom0 boots (with errors in the log - see below) and some Centos 4.4 
>> domU boots but are unseable (after recompiling the initrd image with 
>> the xen driver preloaded) up to the famous long lasting error message 
>> "4gb seg fixup". At that point it is dead
>
> I don't understand what you mean by "dead".  Does the dom0 hang?
No, just the domU. It does nothing more once the "4gb seg fixup" start 
spiting.
>
>> My question: what id the status of Xen for Fc7? Will it ever fly?
>> Is there a Linux distro that works out of the box ?
>
> I've been running FC7's Xen here quite well with a Centos 5 guest 
> (amongst others).  I haven't tried RHEL4 or Centos 4 as a guest though.
That is my next step to test BUT I have a bunch of older Centos to 
migrate so I would like to see them work on newer Xen version.

Thanks.
>
> Rich.
>


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