Xen kernel freezing during boot after upgrading from FC8 to FC9

[Chris Snook]

Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> Casimiro de Almeida Barreto wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've posted this before... but it seems it is not solved yet.
>>
>> After I upgraded from FC8 to FC9 Xen kernels are freezing during boot. 
>> More precisely just after the message: (Xen) ... relinquishing VGA
>> The same problem happens with 2.6.25.3-1.fc9.i686 and 2.6.25.3-2.fc9.i686
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Casimiro Barreto
>>
> 
> Same in current rawhide....
> 

F9 switched to using the upstream paravirt_ops infrastructure for Xen, so that 
the Xen kernels can keep in sync with the baremetal kernel, rather than lagging 
behind several releases.  Unfortunately, there are still some features necessary 
to be a dom0 Xen host that have not yet been ported to paravirt_ops, so the F9 
Xen kernel can't boot your physical box, though it'll run just fine under an F8 
dom0.  F10 is expected to have full dom0 support, using paravirt_ops, but for 
now, you'll either have to use F8 in your dom0, or use something like KVM that's 
fully merged.

-- Chris