RE: [Fedora-xen] Unmodified 2003/2000/FC5 on XEN 3.0.2

[You, Yongkang]

Hi Rafiq,

Sorry for response later. The configuration should be right for FC5.

I notice you build out Xen source yourself. You can try with this configuration:

root (hd0,0)
        kernel /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=262144 com1=115200,8n1 
        module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xen0 ro root=/dev/sda1 console=ttyS0 console=tty0
        module /boot/initrd-2.6.16-xen0.img

I can use above grub config to boot xen with serial output.

I suggest you can use Windows XP as the Windows guest testing. :-)

BTW, you Xen is pae enabled. But now the feature of “pae VMX on pae Host” is not supported. So you have to do some configuration in Windows to avoid VMX run into pae mode. :-) (Windows XP SP1 should not be pae enabled default.)

Best Regards,

Yongkang (Kangkang) 永康

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From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Ahamed K, Rafiq (HP)
Sent: 2006年5月2日 6:42
To: You, Yongkang; [e-mail]
Subject: RE: [Fedora-xen] Unmodified 2003/2000/FC5 on XEN 3.0.2

Hi Yong,

Yes! I have tried windows 2003 and windows 2000 also and same problem prevails "on both". In the unsafe mode I can see that the drivers load on Windows 2003/2000 SDL VM console until they load mup.sys.

I am not able to connect the serial output. I have followed almost all the techniques given on the net for serial communication. This is my grub info.

root (hd0,0)
        kernel /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=1024096 com1=115200,8n1 sync_console
        module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xen0 ro root=/dev/sda1 console=ttyS0 console=tty0 pnpacpi=off
        module /boot/initrd-2.6.16-xen0.img

Just to clarify, the serial output is basically connecting the serial port of the XEN system to remote host and capturing the output right? (the way we debug load time drivers??)

And my xm info is

system                 : Linux
 host                   : hwxentop
 release                : 2.6.16-xen0
 version                : #1 Tue May 2 03:16:06 MDT 2006
 machine                : i686
 nr_cpus                : 8
 nr_nodes               : 1
 sockets_per_node       : 2
 cores_per_socket       : 2
 threads_per_core       : 2
 cpu_mhz                : 2666
 hw_caps                : bfebfbff:20100000:00000000:00000180:000064bd:00000000:00000001
 total_memory           : 5119
 free_memory            : 3551
 xen_major              : 3
 xen_minor              : 0
 xen_extra              : -unstable
 xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_32
 platform_params        : virt_start=0xf5800000
 xen_changeset          : Wed Apr 26 20:01:37 2006 +0100 9747:4d667a139318
 cc_compiler            : gcc version 4.1.0 20060304 (Red Hat 4.1.0-3)
 cc_compile_by          : root
 cc_compile_domain      : localdomain
 cc_compile_date        : Tue May  2 03:04:27 MDT 2006

Any help would be greatly appriciated! Thanks R

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From: You, Yongkang [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 8:14 AM
To: Ahamed K, Rafiq (HP); [e-mail]
Subject: RE: [Fedora-xen] Unmodified 2003/2000/FC5 on XEN 3.0.2

Hi Rafig,

So you have tried Windows 2003 and 2000? And they all hang with the same phenomena?

Did you try to get the serial output when VMX hang? The qemu-log seemed okay. Could you tell more information such as Xen0 memory size and the VMX config you used? These could help developers to shoot the bug. And you can also report bugs to Xen directly. :-)

I didn’t try them before. But I am sure someone has successful experience of creating Windows XP VMX with Xen 3.0.2/

Best Regards,

Yongkang (Kangkang) 永康

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From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Ahamed K, Rafiq (HP)
Sent: 2006年4月20日 13:35
To: [e-mail]
Subject: [Fedora-xen] Unmodified 2003/2000/FC5 on XEN 3.0.2

I can see that Windows Loads in VM  and when I run in safe mode it reaches until loading

multi(0)\disk(0)\rdisk(0)\partition(1)\Windows\system32\drivers\Mup.sys

After this it hangs.Attached is the qemulog.

Note : These VM's are running out of a complete disk (/dev/sdb), which has working installation of Windows on it!

I am running FC5 along with Xen 3.0.2 (tried unstable too) on Intel XEON VT-x server!

Any help would be great! Rafiq