On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:39:55 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange berrange@redhat.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 04:34:52PM +0100, George Refseth wrote:
It seems I got little attention with my original post. The f8 64bit image hangs when starting X. Prior to that the visual 'wait' circle keeps running around irregularily at a lot than normal speed.
I observed the same on multi core AMD running RHEL 4, which was cured with RHEL 5. So no I am happy on that multi-core workstation.
But this new server I was trying to set up had definite problems with the -21 xen kernel. It runs flawlessly with the f8 release kernel (-23).
For testing, where should I pull down a newer xen-kernel that would run with a full 64 bit f8 install? I would be happy to be a guinea pig (as long as I can revert) using this system if I could be pointed to repositories and forum where I could contribute..
I'm afraid the 2.6.21 series of kernel-xen will be the newest we release for F-8 and earlier - its in bugfix only mode[1]. If there is an easy bugfix we can do for 2.6.21 to make it work that's a possiblity but we won't be doing .22 or .23 kernel-xen. I'd recommend filing a BZ ticket with as many details of the problem you are seeing as possible:
Thanks for a quick response, even if it doesn't really help me. The system also won't boot in i386 mode with the latest BIOS, so I will run non-virtualized 64 bit for testing purposes until you have a testable xen enabled kernel for -25 (?) available and forgo the bug report.
Thanks again, George
Regards, Dan.
[1] This is because in Fedora-9 we are radically changing the way we approach Xen kernels http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvops