Re: [Xen-users] paravirtualised gentoo on Fedora Core 7

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Tank you for answer,
>
> I got some basic understanding...
>
> Yes indeed I hadn't compiled a framebuffer support into my gentoo kernel.
> I added xen fb an console fb support and modified grub with
> video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr:0 vga=0x311  (nothing know about mttr value :) )

You shouldn't need the vga= line for a paravirtualised kernel.  My kernel is 
configured with video= set to "video=xenfb" to tell it explicitly to use the 
Xen Framebuffer.  There isn't a vesa framebuffer available to a paravirt 
guest.

> Now I am able to get vnc  screen at boot startup, but just till "Freeing
> unused kernel memory" line, further nothing... console hangs. At the same
> time DomU is still alive and booted. I can ssh into it. Something missed to
> add to kernel?

I wanted to make sure that would work first!  Now we need to add to it...

Add "console=tty1" to your kernel command line.  This should tell the OS to 
output boot console output to tty1, which should display on the framebuffer 
console.

Does that help?

Cheers,
Mark

>
> andris
>
> Mark Williamson wrote:
> > Well, that's a start.  Did you configure the Xen framebuffer device (and
> > framebuffer console) into the kernel?  If not then you wouldn't be able
> > to access the PV framebuffer from dom0.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mark
>
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