Bug 449386 - xen sdl frame buffer broken under pv
Summary: xen sdl frame buffer broken under pv
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xen
Version: 8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Markus Armbruster
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-06-02 15:36 UTC by Michael Young
Modified: 2008-11-26 17:37 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: F8
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-11-26 17:37:42 UTC
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Description Michael Young 2008-06-02 15:36:57 UTC
If I uncomment the vfb = [ 'type=sdl' ] line in my guests configuration file in
/etc/xen and start it it pauses for a long time then gives the error
Error: Device 0 (vkbd) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts not working.
in xend.log there is the line
DEBUG (vfbif:9) Spawn ['/usr/lib/xen/bin/xen-sdlfb']
which I believe indicates the problem since this file is no longer in the xen
package (this is with xen-3.1.2-2.fc8)

[As an aside I tried rebuilding the xen-3.2.0-10 package from fedora 9 on this
machine and stealing a xen.gz file from fedora 9. With this the boot succeeded
but it launched a vnc console rather than an sdl one.]

Comment 1 Michael Young 2008-06-02 16:24:20 UTC
As a follow up to the aside, xen-3.2.1 does do sdl again (based on taking the
xen-3.2.0-10.fc9 source package and the 3.2.1 tar ball, and editing the spec
file to change the base_version and hv_build settings (since I might as well
have a new hypervisor) and commenting out Patches 9, 16 and 17, then building it
on Fedora 8).

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Comment 3 Jon Stanley 2008-11-26 17:37:42 UTC
As this bug is in MODIFIED, Fedora believes that a fix has been committed that resolves the problem listed in this bug report.

If this is not the case, please re-open this report, noting the version of the package that you reproduced the bug against.

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