Re: [Xen-users] PV networking issue in 2.6.38.6 and 2.6.39-rc7 pvops dom0 kernels

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 03:15:53PM +0200, Mario wrote:
> On 05/16/2011 03:09 PM, Mario wrote:
>> On 05/16/2011 03:06 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 14:04 +0100, Mario wrote:
>>>> So you are telling me that 2.6.38 does not have a working networking on
>>>> PV guests, but HVM does?
>>>
>>> Yes, netback did not go upstream until 2.6.39 so PV networking (either
>>> for PV or HVM guests with PV drivers) will not work on mainline kernels
>>> before that.
>>>
>>> Emulated HVM networking does not use netback so that will work on
>>> earlier kernels (it depends on qemu)
>>>
>>> Ian.
>>>
>>
>> Ok, thanks, it all makes more sense now. :-)
>
>
> Ian, while i have your attention, any idea why some framebuffer devices  
> blank screen when dom0 boots up. I have seen this happen mostly on older  
> vga cards but its not a rule. Should i just keep on blacklisting kernel  
> modules for those cards, or is there some kind of a more general 
> solution?

You could try "nomodeset" parameter to disable KMS modesetting..
(and possibly adding "console=tty0")

Xen patches for DRM/KMS haven't been merged to upstream Linux yet.

-- Pasi


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