On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 10:09:55AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 11:20:26AM +0200, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 08:27:14AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > > Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > > > > > > I rebuilt 3.3.1-9 on fc10, and it seems to work. > > > > > > > > But virt-install (and virt-manager) seem to have problems.. > > > > > > > > # virt-install <options> > > > > > > > > ERROR Unsupported virtualization type 'xen' > > > > > > > > Was xen support removed from virt-install, or does it just fail to detect > > > > xen is available when using pv_ops dom0? > > > > > > Either that, or the xen is a bit out-of-date because Fedora had no dom0 > > > kernel (thus no testing) since Fedora 8 ... > > > > > > I'd suggest to file bugs. Most likely the culprit is libvirt. > > > > > > > Actually we hunted this down with Cole Robinson and Jeremy.. > > > > The reason is pv_ops dom0 kernel is still missing /sys/hypervisor infos.. > > virt-install (or libvirt) needs that info to fetch the capabilities. > > We could probably switch over to making a hypercall to fetch that info > if /sys/hypervisor/properties/capabilities isn't going to reappear in > the near future ... > Just a followup to this thread too.. The patch (from old Redhat dom0 tree) implementing /sys/hypervisor feature is here: http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=linux-2.6-dom0-pvops.git;a=commit;h=7aa79a5603bb604e8bf4fe7c31cc9c8b3d3b7ea2 Hopefully Jeremy will merge it to current pv_ops dom0 tree. Discussion about this on xen-devel: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-03/msg00472.html And another (more recent) thread on fedora-xen/fedora-virt about this subject: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-March/msg00017.html -- Pasi -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
