Description of problem: While trying to evaluate RHEL Desktop (Client + WS + Virtualization) on a system with a nvidia graphic card, the nvidia driver (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9629- pkg2.run) needs to be installed (requirement is kernel-xen-devel). While installing the nvidia driver, at the end of the building kernel module, the kernel-xen panics. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2747.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-1.2747.el5.x86_64.rpm How reproducible: Every attempt to install the nvidia driver Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot into kernel-xen 2. start ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9629-pkg2.run 3. starts building kernel module Actual results: Process udevd (pid); 4922, theadinfo ffff88005b7be000, task fff8000 Stack: ffffffff80222b53 ffff880000ccfec0 08800000000000 0000000000 ffffffff80210a53 ffffffff805a6800 000000000001040 0000000000 ffff880000ccfec0 ffffffff805a683c Call Trace: <IRQ> [<ffffffff80222b53>] smp_call_function_interrupt+0x4f/0x75 [<ffffffff80210a53>] handle_IRQ_event+0x2d/0x60 [<ffffffff802a82d3>] __do_IRQ+0xa4/0x105 [<ffffffff80287b7f>] _local_bh_enable+0x61/0xc5 [<ffffffff8038da52>] do_IRQ+0xe7/0xf5 [<ffffffff8038da52>] evtchn_do_upcall+0x86/0xe0 [<ffffffff8025cc8a>] do_hypervisor_callback+0x1e/0x2c <EOI> [<ffffffff8025da7c>] copy_page+0x50/0xe4 [<ffffffff80210ed9>] do_wp_page+0x35c/0x584 [<ffffffff8020961d>] __handle_mm_fault+0xe63/0xf12 [<ffffffff80260729>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x9/0x14 [<ffffffff80263008>] do_page_fault+0xe48/0x11dc [<ffffffff8025cb8f>] error_exit+0x0/0x6e Code: 0f 22 c0 0f 0 0f 20 e6 49 89 f0 41 81 e8 80 00 00 00 74 08 RIP [<ffffffff888b5e21>] :nvidia:__nv_setup_pat_entries+0x11/0x7 RSP <ffff880000cfbeb0> <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal execption Expected results: Smooth installation of nvidia driver. Additional info:
Is this an open source nvidia driver, or the proprietary driver?
It's the proprietary client NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9629-pkg2.run.
As I do not have the source code to their driver, I will not be able to fix it. Sorry.