Fwd: xen and fedora
by Lefu Ntho
I did not mean to reply directly to you Michael, it seems gmail picked your
email directly and I saw that after I hitting Send, sorry about that one.
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From: Lefu Ntho <lefuntho(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] xen and fedora
To:
and correctly so, Michael, that --oldpackage did the trick, thanx a lot, I
have bravely removed previously installed xen and kernel, I then reinstalled
xen and kernel-2.6.32.39 via yum, rebooted the machine remotely, I executed
uname -r and
2.6.32.39-175.xendom0.fc13.x86_64 is returned :)
but
vm info
Error: Unable to connect to xend: No such file or directory. Is xend
running?
wha am I missing? I tried
"/etc/init.d/xend start" but I get no output
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 8:20 PM, M A Young <m.a.young(a)durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 May 2011, Mike McClurg wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Lefu Ntho <lefuntho(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> hi Mike,
>>> indeed it got to me, I think what I am trying to find out is steps to
>>> take
>>> before I execute dracut. because the tutorial states for fc13, I think
>>> guys
>>> have already done this on fc14. I attempted to fetch and install myoung
>>> kernel but it fails as its build for earlier kernel version than the one
>>> I
>>> have.
>>>
>>
> It should work if you yum install the specific kernel version. Or you can
> download it and run rpm -ivh --oldpackage .
>
>
> You won't be able to run xen with your stock Fedora 14 kernel. You'll
>> have to replace it completely with a xen-capable kernel, like Jeremy's
>> 2.6.32 kernel that you build yourself, or one of the ones that myoung
>> built for Fedora 12.
>>
>
> Though a stock Fedora 16 kernel will work (with xen 4.1 and xl).
>
> Michael Young
>
12 years, 11 months
xen and fedora
by Lefu Ntho
Hi guys,
apologies for posting on xen mailing list earlier,
I have fc14 running kernel-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64.
I did
$ yum install xen
I would like to compile xend modules with this,
I did steps according to
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Fedora13Xen4Tutorial
$ make -j4 bzImage && make -j4 modules
$ make modules_install
$ depmod 2.6.32.40 ( its here where I later run into problems as I do not
have the right kernel to use, maybe?)
$ cp -a arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.40
$ cp -a System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.32.40
$ cp -a .config /boot/config-2.6.32.40
$ cd /boot/
$ dracut initramfs-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64.img 2.6.32.40
Will not override existing initramfs
(/boot/initramfs-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64.img) without --force
$rpm -qa | grep xen
xen-runtime-4.0.1-7.fc14.x86_64
xen-licenses-4.0.1-7.fc14.x86_64
xen-hypervisor-4.0.1-7.fc14.x86_64
xen-libs-4.0.1-7.fc14.x86_64
$
is there something I am missing?
Please point me to the right direction. I will do the rest
Thank you in advance
12 years, 11 months
How to use xen-pciback
by Robin Axelsson
Hi,
I have compiled Jeremy's kernel on Fedora 14 and it turned out that
xen-pciback is compiled into the kernel as a module. So I made a
"xen-pciback.conf" file in /etc/modprobe.d. The problem is that I have
to get modprobe to load before the drivers to the PCI devices I want to
hide are loaded.
So my question is how do I locate the drivers and find the points in the
boot scripts where I can put the modprobe so that it is loaded before
them? I tried lsmod and modinfo but they don't give much information. I
only managed to find the driver for the Intel EXPI9400PT adapter e1000e.
I want to hide the graphics adapter (Radeon 5450), Two USB2.0 ports, the
Intel adapter, the USB3.0 controller and the Audio device, their
assignments on machine are as follows:
pci_0000_00_02_0 (GPU)
pci_0000_00_12_0 (USB 2.0 should give 2 ports)
pci_0000_00_14_2 (Audio device)
pci_0000_00_0a_0 (Intel Adapter)
pci_0000_00_09_0 (USB 3.0 Interface)
but the question is where can I locate their drivers and how can I tap
into the boot sequence so that the xen-pciback driver is loaded
beforehand? The page
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Assign_hardware_to_DomU_with_PCIBack_as...
gives no information about this. It mentions something about "install
skge ... " but it doesn't say where this line is to be put and how you
figure out that skge is the driver to be disabled.
I have set up the machine to init level 3 in the /etc/inittab (my
install of F14 have no upstart targets). The xen-pciback module seems to
be working. Something is wrong with the onboard sound chip. No drivers
have ever successfully initiated it, neither in Windows nor Linux. So it
is marked as an assignable device when looking it up with xm.
Regards
Robin.
12 years, 11 months
