[Fedora-xen] Xen status for FC7

[Frank Morane]

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

My question: what id the status of Xen for Fc7? Will it ever fly?
Is there a Linux distro that works out of the box ?

The last usable version I saw was for FC5 as of May 2006, after that all 
version were badly broken and never fixed, I tested ALL of them for 
fc5/fc6 and not a single one worked as published. Only home brewed 
compiled version would work after weeks of trial and error.

Here what the log says from my out of the box install:


[root at paine xen]# cat xend.log
[2007-06-29 08:08:34 2567] INFO (SrvDaemon:331) Xend Daemon started
[2007-06-29 08:08:34 2567] INFO (SrvDaemon:335) Xend changeset: unavailable.
[2007-06-29 08:08:34 2567] INFO (SrvDaemon:342) Xend version: Unknown.
[2007-06-29 08:08:35 2567] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:126) 
XendDomainInfo.recreate({'max_vcpu_id': 0, 'cpu_time': 35199342574L, 
'ssidref': 0, 'hvm': 0, 'shutdown_reason': 0, 'dying': 0, 
'online_vcpus': 1, 'domid': 0, 'paused': 0, 'crashed': 0, 'running': 1, 
'maxmem_kb': 4294967292L, 'shutdown': 0, 'mem_kb': 962164L, 'handle': 
[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], 'blocked': 0, 'name': 
'Domain-0'})
[2007-06-29 08:08:35 2567] INFO (XendDomainInfo:143) Recreating domain 
0, UUID 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000. at /local/domain/0
[2007-06-29 08:08:35 2567] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:2022) Storing VM 
details: {'on_xend_stop': 'ignore', 'shadow_memory': '0', 'uuid': 
'00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000', 'on_reboot': 'restart', 'image': 
'(linux (kernel ))', 'on_poweroff': 'destroy', 'on_xend_start': 
'ignore', 'on_crash': 'restart', 'xend/restart_count': '0', 'vcpus': 
'1', 'vcpu_avail': '1', 'name': 'Domain-0'}
[2007-06-29 08:08:35 2567] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:873) Storing domain 
details: {'name': 'Domain-0', 'console/limit': '1048576', 'vm': 
'/vm/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000', 'domid': '0', 
'cpu/0/availability': 'online', 'memory/target': '962164', 
'control/platform-feature-multiprocessor-suspend': '1'}
[2007-06-29 08:08:35 2567] DEBUG (XendDomain:443) Adding Domain: 0
[2007-06-29 08:08:35 2567] DEBUG (XendDomain:379) number of vcpus to use 
is 0
[2007-06-29 08:08:35 2567] INFO (SrvServer:180) unix 
path=/var/lib/xend/xend-socket
[2007-06-29 08:08:35 2567] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:873) Storing domain 
details: {'name': 'Domain-0', 'console/limit': '1048576', 'vm': 
'/vm/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000', 'domid': '0', 
'cpu/0/availability': 'online', 'memory/target': '962164', 
'control/platform-feature-multiprocessor-suspend': '1'}
[2007-06-29 08:08:35 2567] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:957) 
XendDomainInfo.handleShutdownWatch
[2007-06-29 08:08:35 2567] WARNING (XendAPI:672) API call: 
VBD.set_device not found
[2007-06-29 08:08:35 2567] WARNING (XendAPI:672) API call: VBD.set_mode 
not found
[2007-06-29 08:08:35 2567] WARNING (XendAPI:672) API call: VBD.set_type 
not found
[2007-06-29 08:08:35 2567] WARNING (XendAPI:672) API call: 
VM.get_auto_power_on not found
[2007-06-29 08:08:35 2567] WARNING (XendAPI:672) API call: 
VM.set_auto_power_on not found
[2007-06-29 08:08:35 2567] WARNING (XendAPI:672) API call: 
VM.set_VCPUs_max not found
[2007-06-29 08:08:35 2567] WARNING (XendAPI:672) API call: 
VM.set_VCPUs_at_startup not found
[2007-06-29 08:08:35 2567] WARNING (XendAPI:672) API call: debug.get_all 
not found
[2007-06-29 08:08:35 2567] WARNING (XendAPI:672) API call: 
console.get_other_config not found
[2007-06-29 08:08:35 2567] WARNING (XendAPI:672) API call: 
console.set_other_config not found
[2007-06-29 08:08:35 2567] WARNING (XendAPI:672) API call: 
VIF.get_network not found
[2007-06-29 08:08:35 2567] WARNING (XendAPI:672) API call: 
VIF.set_device not found
[2007-06-29 08:08:35 2567] WARNING (XendAPI:672) API call: VIF.set_MAC 
not found
[2007-06-29 08:08:35 2567] WARNING (XendAPI:672) API call: VIF.set_MTU 
not found
[2007-06-29 08:08:35 2567] WARNING (XendAPI:672) API call: 
session.get_all_records not found
[2007-06-29 08:08:35 2567] WARNING (XendAPI:672) API call: 
event.get_record not found
[2007-06-29 08:08:35 2567] WARNING (XendAPI:672) API call: event.get_all 
not found
[2007-06-29 08:08:46 2567] INFO (XMLRPCServer:149) Opening Unix domain 
socket XML-RPC server on /var/run/xend/xen-api.sock; authentication has 
been disabled for this server.
[2007-06-29 08:08:46 2567] INFO (XMLRPCServer:149) Opening Unix domain 
socket XML-RPC server on /var/run/xend/xmlrpc.sock.

Regards,

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