Re: call for testing: xen 4.1 packages

["Toby Karyadi" <toby.karyadi%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 3/30/2011, "Christoph Egger" <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost> wrote:

>On 03/30/11 16:28, Toby Karyadi wrote:
>> On 3/30/2011, "Christoph Egger"<Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>  wrote:
>>
>>> On 03/30/11 10:42, Stefano Marinelli wrote:
>>>>> I have packaged xen 4.1.
>>>>>
>>>>> Get the packages from
>>>>> http://www.netbsd.org/~cegger/xenkernel41.tar.gz
>>>>> http://www.netbsd.org/~cegger/xentools41.tar.gz
>>>>
>>>> This is a great, great news! Thank you Christoph!
>>>>
>>>> I will test it in three different machines, and will report back if I'll 
>>>> find any problem.
>>>> Is it working just with -current or also with 5.1?
>>>
>>> I tested on -current only. Backward-compatibility to latest NetBSD
>>> releases to supposed to be maintained in pkgsrc.
>>>
>>> Please also report successful tests.
>>>
>>> Christoph
>>
>> Hmm, the netbsd boot just went blank after showing that it's loading the
>> xen kernel file. I had the same problem with the xen40 build from the
>> pkgsrc package the last time you made the call for testing for 4.0. At
>> that time I thought that was a deficiency in the netbsd boot and I tried
>> grub, but it didn't help. I was able to get a hold of a prebuilt 4.0
>> xen.gz that came with some linux distro, I forgot which one, and I was
>> able to boot with it and had a functioning netbsd xen40 setup.
>>
>> My kernel is netbsd 5.99.45 XEN3_DOM0 amd64 from 2011-02-14 0500Z. The
>> second stage boot loader (/boot) is up to date from that version. I
>> built the xenkernel41 by copying the xenkernel41.tar.gz into my
>> pkgsrc/sysutil, unpacking it and did 'make install'. Copied the
>> installed /usr/pkg/xen41-kernel/xen.gz to /xen41.gz and the boot.cfg
>> entry for it looks like below:
>>
>> menu=Boot HEAD 201102140500Z xen41:load /netbsd-201102140500Z-XEN3_DOM0.gz 
>> console=pc root=wd2a;multiboot /xen41.gz dom0_mem=128M
>
>Retry with this line:
>
>menu=Boot HEAD 201102140500Z xen41:load
>/netbsd-201102140500Z-XEN3_DOM0.gz console=pc root=wd2a;multiboot
>/xen41.gz dom0_mem=128M console=vga
>
>Christoph

Adding 'console=vga' to the original did not have any effect. Btw, when
I used the xen-debug.gz, instead of just displaying a blank screen and
not responding to Ctrl-Alt-Del, it rebooted on its own. It probably
doesn't mean anything to you.

I'm building a xen.gz on a Centos 5.5 64 bit using the source tgz from
xen.org. I'll let you know if I find anything. 

Toby