[Fedora-xen] Xen status for FC7

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Mon Jul 2 08:47:50 UTC 2007


Frank Morane wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> Frank Morane wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I just did a fresh install of FC7 to see if xen would work out of the 
>>> box.
>>> Dom0 boots (with errors in the log - see below) and some Centos 4.4 
>>> domU boots but are unseable (after recompiling the initrd image with 
>>> the xen driver preloaded) up to the famous long lasting error message 
>>> "4gb seg fixup". At that point it is dead
>>
>> I don't understand what you mean by "dead".  Does the dom0 hang?
> No, just the domU. It does nothing more once the "4gb seg fixup" start 
> spiting.

If you have a directory /lib/tls in the guest, try moving it out of the 
way before the guest boots.

You could also try:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2006-November/msg00142.html

See also section 2.5.3 here:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/readmes/user/user.html#tex2html6

Let us know if any of this works.

Rich.

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