Bug 437930 (XenPvopsDom0)

Summary: kernel lacks support for xen Dom0
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jens Petersen <petersen>
Component: kernelAssignee: Xen Maintainance List <xen-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 12CC: bjrosen, daw-redhatbugzilla, debian, drdoom, gyurco, itamar, johnny, john, kernel-maint, ma, maria_parson, markmc, mstadtle, ondrejj
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Description Jens Petersen 2008-03-18 08:23:34 UTC
Description of problem:
I installed the xen kernel on my rawhide box and it does not seem to boot.
Looks like it oops during booting.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-xen-2.6.25-0.2.rc4.fc9

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install rawhide with virtualization
2. boot into kernel-xen
  
Actual results:
oopses during boot

Expected results:
to boot

Comment 1 Jens Petersen 2008-03-18 08:24:11 UTC
This is i686 BTW.

Comment 2 Daniel Berrangé 2008-03-18 12:36:59 UTC
We are not expecting to support  Xen Dom0 in Fedora 9 GA release, so this is an
expected failure:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-March/msg00492.html


Comment 3 Mark McLoughlin 2008-03-18 12:39:12 UTC
This is Dom0, right? Not a Xen DomU guest?

Fedora 9 won't contain a kernel capable of booting as Dom0. See these links for
more details:

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvops
  http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2008-March/msg00013.html

It is recommended to use F-8 as a Dom0 until F-10

If this an issue with a Xen DomU guest, please re-open.

Comment 4 Mark McLoughlin 2008-04-28 16:25:28 UTC
*** Bug 443985 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Mark McLoughlin 2008-04-28 16:25:46 UTC
*** Bug 444266 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Mark McLoughlin 2008-05-04 18:48:31 UTC
*** Bug 444965 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Mark McLoughlin 2008-05-04 18:57:17 UTC
*** Bug 441138 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Mark McLoughlin 2008-05-12 06:31:31 UTC
*** Bug 446009 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Daniel Berrangé 2008-05-14 01:25:24 UTC
*** Bug 446308 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Daniel Berrangé 2008-05-14 23:24:31 UTC
*** Bug 446515 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Mark McLoughlin 2008-05-19 09:03:31 UTC
*** Bug 447274 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12 Daniel Berrangé 2008-06-13 09:01:01 UTC
*** Bug 451156 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13 Eduardo Habkost 2008-06-18 13:52:10 UTC
*** Bug 451969 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14 Mark McLoughlin 2008-08-12 14:47:24 UTC
*** Bug 458808 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15 Jan ONDREJ 2008-08-13 08:19:24 UTC
May be leaving this bug open will avoid adding more and more duplicates.
When somebody is searching for similar bug in bugzilla, in most situations does not search over closed bugs.

Why it's problematic to rebuild kernel-xen-2.6 package on F9?

Comment 16 Mark McLoughlin 2008-08-13 08:45:47 UTC
*** Bug 458808 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17 Mark McLoughlin 2008-08-13 08:51:29 UTC
(In reply to comment #15)
> May be leaving this bug open will avoid adding more and more duplicates.
> When somebody is searching for similar bug in bugzilla, in most situations does
> not search over closed bugs.

Fair point; it is still a bug, even if it won't be fixed for F10

> Why it's problematic to rebuild kernel-xen-2.6 package on F9?

Discussed many times on fedora-xen, e.g.

  https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2008-July/msg00048.html

Maintaining the old backport of the 2.6.18 tree is wasted effort; the future is with the pv_ops support in Linus's tree.

Comment 18 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 02:09:34 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

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Comment 19 Mark McLoughlin 2009-08-18 11:00:03 UTC
clearly this is still an issue in rawhide

Comment 20 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 08:03:05 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

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