[fedora-virt] pv_ops dom0 kernel RPM, configuration & setup help anyone?

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:05:35PM -0400, Lester M. wrote:
> 
> Hello Pasi,
> 
> Unfortunately with adding "loglvl=all guest_loglvl=all noreboot" and
> removing "rhgb quiet" from the vmlinuz the result stayed the same.
> 
> After the boot process gets to the "(XEN) Scrubbing Free RAM:
> ..........done." the screen still goes blank, and the system ceases to
> respond. This forces me to do a "hard reset" on my laptop. :-(
> 

Hmm.. The boot process should look something like this:

..
(XEN) Scrubbing Free RAM: ..........done.
(XEN) Xen trace buffers: disabled
(XEN) Std. Loglevel: All
(XEN) Guest Loglevel: All
(XEN) *** Serial input -> DOM0 (type 'CTRL-a' three times to switch input to Xen)
(XEN) Freed 104kB init memory.
mapping kernel into physical memory
Xen: setup ISA identity maps
about to get started...
Reserving virtual address space above 0xf5800000
PAT disabled on Xen
Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
Linux version 2.6.30-rc6-tip (root at dom0test.localdomain) (gcc version 4.4.0
20090506 (Red Hat 4.4.0-4) (GCC) ) #15 SMP T
ue Jun 9 19:36:50 EEST 2009
KERNEL supported cpus:
  Intel GenuineIntel
  AMD AuthenticAMD
  NSC Geode by NSC
  Cyrix CyrixInstead
  Centaur CentaurHauls
  Transmeta GenuineTMx86
  Transmeta TransmetaCPU
  UMC UMC UMC UMC
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 Xen: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400 (usable)
 Xen: 000000000009f400 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 Xen: 0000000000100000 - 0000000040000000 (usable)
 Xen: 000000007f6e0000 - 000000007f6e3000 (ACPI NVS)
 Xen: 000000007f6e3000 - 000000007f6f0000 (ACPI data)
 Xen: 000000007f6f0000 - 000000007f700000 (reserved)
 Xen: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
 Xen: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
console [xenboot0] enabled

etc

So the dom0 kernel should get booted up pretty shortly after that Scrubbing Free RAM.. 


> This is my grub entry with the "loglvl=all guest_loglvl=all noreboot" added:
> 
> title Fedora (2.6.31-0.1.2.37.rc1.git5.xendom0.fc12.i686.PAE)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /xen-3.4.1-rc6.gz dom0_mem=1024M loglvl=all guest_loglvl=all
> com1=19200,8n1 console=com1
>         module /vmlinuz-2.6.31-0.1.2.37.rc1.git5.xendom0.fc12.i686.PAE ro
> root=/dev/mapper/vg01-lv_root
>         module /initrd-2.6.31-0.1.2.37.rc1.git5.xendom0.fc12.i686.PAE.img
>

You shouldn't have the "com1=19200,8n1 console=com1" there if you want to use
the VGA text console..
 
> 
> 
> When I set up a serial console and boot the system, the screen immediately
> goes "blank" and the system ceases to function as well. The difference is
> that this occurs sooner using the serial console than after the "(XEN)
> Scrubbing Free RAM: ..........done." occurrence.
> 

When you have a serial console in use, the screen _should_ go blank immediately,
because the console output is redirected to the serial port/console.

So the behaviour you're seeing there is expected.

> This is my grub entry with the serial console setup from the xenpvops page:
> 
> title Fedora (2.6.31-0.1.2.37.rc1.git5.xendom0.fc12.i686.PAE)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /xen-3.4.1-rc6.gz dom0_mem=1024M loglvl=all guest_loglvl=all
> com1=19200,8n1 console=com1
>         module /vmlinuz-2.6.31-0.1.2.37.rc1.git5.xendom0.fc12.i686.PAE ro
> root=/dev/mapper/vg01-lv_root console=hvc0 earlyprintk=xen
>         module /initrd-2.6.31-0.1.2.37.rc1.git5.xendom0.fc12.i686.PAE.img
> 

That looks correct, if your laptop serial port actually is com1. 
Do you see the Xen and dom0 kernel boot messages on the serial console?

> 
> So all of this works on your system and not mine. Unfortunately this is all
> the hardware I am able to test on at this time. I don't know how many people
> are running this xen configuration on a Lenovo T60 laptop but there is
> clearly something missing.
> 
> What more should I test to get this working? :-) Anything goes at this
> point, but I do hope the developers / maintainers are reading this thread.
> :-P

Do you have to specify any non-default parameters to xen or dom0 kernel when
you use RHEL 5.3 on the laptop? 

-- Pasi