RE: [Xen-devel] Vt-d not working with 3.4.1

["Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)" <enming.teo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No wonder compiling official NVidia drivers against the Xen domain 0
paravirt operations kernel doesn't work. It causes my X server to show a
blank screen and freeze. NVidia drivers need to be patched for it to work
with Xen kernels.

http://en.opensuse.org/Use_Nvidia_driver_with_Xen

May I know where I can get the patch?

Regards,
 
Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Dip(Mechatronics Engineering)
BEng(Hons)(Mechanical Engineering) 
Technical Support Engineer 
Information Technology Department
Asiasoft Online Pte Ltd
Tampines Central 1 #04-01 Tampines Plaza 
Singapore 529541
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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Vt-d not working with 3.4.1

Dear All,

I can confirm that recompiling the Xen dom 0 paravirt-ops kernel using 
gzip compression works. I can use the generated bzImage to boot up Domain 0.

If you attempt to compile the Xen Dom 0 pv-ops kernel using bzip2 
compression, you won't be able to boot up Domain 0 using the generated 
bzImage. You will get an ELF error and kernel panic on CPU 0.

As for X server, I haven't got much luck yet.

I was able to download and compile NVIDIA's kernel module directly from 
official NVIDIA website for Fedora 11 Default shipping kernel. I was 
able to start X server successfully and launch a desktop environment 
using nvidia.ko.

However, if I want to compile the nvidia kernel module against Xen dom 0 
pv_ops kernel sources, the kernel module compiles successfully, but when 
I start X, the screen becomes blank and the whole system freezes there.

-- 
Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Dip(Mechatronics Engineering)
BEng(Hons)(Mechanical Engineering)
Technical Support Engineer
Information Technology Department
Asiasoft Online Pte Ltd
Tampines Central 1 #04-01 Tampines Plaza
Singapore 529541
Republic of Singapore
Mobile: +65-9648-9798
MSN: teoenming@xxxxxxxxxxx
Alma Maters: Singapore Polytechnic, National University of Singapore



On 08/19/2009 09:06 PM, Marc - A. Dahlhaus wrote:
> Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) schrieb:
>> Dear Marc,
>>
>> I am aware that bzImage is not related to bzip2 compression at all. 
>> In fact bzImage stands for big zImage.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vmlinux
>>
>> In the past, I was able to use bzip2 for Xen kernel in OpenSUSE 11.1 
>> successfully. Why is it I am only able to use gzip now?
>>
> The dom0 builder only supports that as far as i know.
>
> Marc




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