RE: [Xen-devel] XCI: can we get to the demo state?

[Tim Moore <timothy.moore@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Vincent,

I have not had a success with the 2.6.27 XCI kernel due to a number of issues 
(I think with support for my hardware).

Intel Core i7 920 on Intel DX58SO (latest Intel BIOS)

Success with build.git after the dev team fixed..

XCI Kernel fails to boot: 2 reasons

Randomly stops and freezes after initialising the 1st core on the processor 
(keyboard lockup / total machine lockup) have to hard reset to try again...

If it passes this point, kernel then continues to load all processor cores, and 
upto SATA controller (AHCI Mode). The driver loads the disk sd(..) and then the 
system reboots - no messages - I think just before initrc is started.

I have no RS232 on this board, so am waiting for a 1394 adapter for laptop 
before I can debug further... 

Any pointers to getting further would help; I can't even get the point of 
trying pass-through for vga!

Cheers,
Tim


-----Original Message-----
From: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vincent Hanquez
Sent: 10 August 2009 14:20
To: Phung Te Ha
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] XCI: can we get to the demo state?

Phung Te Ha wrote:
> Hello XCI developers,
>
> I have a HP6930, downloaded xenclient from the git. And by following the 
> instruction in HOWTO, I could get xenclient boot up fine. I try then to start 
> a guest using xenvm.readme as template and nothing shows on the screen for 
> the guest, although xenops shows 2 doms running.
>
> Can you point me to how to start a guest. And also, is the tree downloaded 
> from git enough to arrive to what was shown in the demo video:
>
> http://www.citrix.com/tv/#video/423
>
> Thank you.
>
> Phung-Te

Hi Phung-Te,

The demo contains few bytes from citrix that are not available, however 
you can definitely have the graphics of your VM if you have VT-d 
available and enabled. At this point you just need to set at the end of 
your xenvm config:

pci = 0,bind,PCIBUSID_OF_YOUR_GRAPHIC_CARD

usually with an intel card this end up beeing:

pci = 0,bind,0000:00:02.0

-- 
Vincent

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