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

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:49:18PM +0200, Mario wrote:
> On 05/16/2011 03:22 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
>
> nomodeset and/or nofb do not seem to help.
> console=tty0 also does not seem to have any effect.
>
> Only way to successfuly boot dom0 is with one of these:
>
> CONFIG_FB=n
>
> or
>
> echo "blacklist s3fb" > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-s3fb.conf
>
> As soon as fb device is modprobed, booting stops, and server freezes.
> Can anything else be done? Perhaps some setting for xen in kernel..?

Set up a serial console and configure Xen + dom0 kernel log to it..
and see what goes wrong. http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenSerialConsole

ie. does dom0 kernel crash while loading s3fb? 

-- Pasi


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