On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 11:03 +0800, You, Yongkang wrote: > 1. *** IA32E hasn't RPMS about Xen hypervisor and Xen0/XenU > kernels. __FAIL__ Getting x86_64 building involved a couple of chicken sacrifices I think. Stephen was making good progress yesterday, though, so x86_64 will hopefully show up for test3. > 2. *** In order to boot up IA32 Xen0, I have to add pci=noacpi as > the boot parameters of Xen0 kernel, or system will hang when > initial PCI. I don't know if it is only related to > my Machine. __FAIL__ Please file a bug including some actual details about your hardware instead of just vague statements like this. > 4. *** /usr/lib/xen/boot/vmxloader isn't in the RPM package, > so VMX Guest couldn't be created. I suspected build system hasn't > bcc, it is from DEV86 package. __FAIL__ Although it would be great if someone would actually port this stuff to not use ancient, barely maintained toolchains and/or the approach of actually distributing the firmware in the repository (as done by Bochs, which is the upstream for this stuff), I went ahead and got dev86 to build on x86_64 so that vmxloader is in later xen packages. > 9. The new kernel names of Xen/Xen0/XenU seemed a little confused. > E.g. the Xen0 name is like vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.29_FC5hypervisor. I > thought hypervisor is for Xen.gz. Xen0 is the Service OS. The kernel-xen-hypervisor package includes both the Xen hypervisor and the dom0 kernel as these two are tightly intertwined. Jeremy
