On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:45:37PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > Hello, > > I just did some installs with F17 RC4 (the GA version) as a Xen VM. > > Xen host/dom0: RHEL 5.8 x86_64 with the included Xen rpms. > > Tested F17 RC4 VMs: > > - 32bit F17 PV domU: graphical GUI install works OK using the Xen vfb/pvfb > but Xorg fails to start during normal boot after installation. > > - 64bit F17 PV domU: graphical GUI install works OK using the Xen vfb/pvfb > but Xorg fails to start during normal boot after installation. > > - 32bit F17 PVHVM guest: X fails to start so VNC install must be used, install works OK thru VNC. > Xorg fails to start during normal boot after installation. > > - 64bit F17 PVHVM guest: X fails to start so VNC install must be used, install works OK thru VNC. > Xorg fails to start during normal boot after installation. > > (PVHVM == HVM fully virtualized guest with optimized Xen PV drivers. > Optimized Xen PVHVM drivers are nowadays included and used as a default with > recent upstream Linux kernel versions (2.6.36+), so disk/net IO doesn't have to be emulated by Xen Qemu-dm.) > > I wonder if the problem with X failing to start is related to: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DRI2DriversOnly > > Xen HVM guests have Qemu-dm emulated Cirrus VGA adapter (or stdvga) visible to the VM.. > which doesn't have DRM/KMS drivers, and I think it's the same for xen-fbfront. > I think I saw Cirrus (Qemu) DRM/KMS driver being worked on dri-devel mailinglist.. You are hitting https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810040 I think. > > Any ideas/comments? > > -- Pasi > > -- > xen mailing list > xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen -- xen mailing list xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen
