On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 07:14:08PM +0000, Tom Horsley wrote: > All my attempts to install a Fedora 7 HVM under the x86_64 Fedora 6 > host I have have gone into 100% cpu use hangs during the install. > > Today I tried something new - I installed Fedora Core 6 as an HVM, > then built a repo from the F7 dvd image and updated all the packages. > > That actually ran, but it only works if I boot the old Fedora Core 6 > kernel. Any attempt to boot any F7 kernel I've tried gets far enough > to print: > > PCI: PIIX3: Enabling Passive Release on 0000:00:01.0 > > then it is hung in the same ol 100% cpu usage state. > > Anyone know what is happening right there (or right after there)? The GA baremetal kernel was screwed up with last minute dynamic tick patches which make it impossible to boot under Xen HVM. > Any good kernel boot parameters to try? Use the paravirt kernel instead. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen