Description of problem: After installing F9 Release (kernel 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686) as the host machine and installing the xen, kernel-xen, and virt-manager rpm's as well as all dependency rpm's, dom0 will not initialize during the boot process. The result is a halt of the f9xen kernel boot with no errors printed to console or logs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: This occurs on every install. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install F9 Release from an iso image. 2. yum install xen kernel-xen virt-manager 3. Modify grub.conf to boot from the xen kernel 4. Reboot 5. Dom0 fails to initialize during boot configuration Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: Hardware Configuration: Dell 390 Intel Core2 Duo Processor - 6320 @ 1.86 GHz 3.5 GB Memory 80 GB Drive - default partitioning
Unfortunately, kernel-xen in F-9 does not support Dom0, so this is expected. If you require a Xen Dom0, you'll need to use F-8 until F-10. See here for more details: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvops *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 437930 ***