Re: Nullifying Recently Introduced Xen Headers Check

2024-02-02 Thread John L. Poole
On 2/2/2024 11:25 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2024-02-01 at 18:39 +0000, John L. Poole wrote: >> While the Xen Project "make" works, the Gentoo emerge >> of app-emulation/xen-tools does not unless the three lines are >> removed to simulate prior 4.17.3 an

Re: Nullifying Recently Introduced Xen Headers Check

2024-02-01 Thread John L. Poole
On Thursday, February 1st, 2024 at 9:18 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: > (Thanks Andy for the explicit cc) > > On Thu, 2024-02-01 at 00:05 +0000, John L. Poole wrote: > > > cause Gentoo's build to error out. See line 24790: > > > > 5 | #error In Xen native file

Nullifying Recently Introduced Xen Headers Check

2024-01-31 Thread John L. Poole
Greetings, Gentoo Linux maintains two packages for Xen:   1) app-emulation/xen-tools ("xen-tools")   2) app-emulation/xen ("xen") xen-tools is a prerequisite to xen.  So a failure to install xen-tools will preclude any attempt to install xen. I acknowledge that building xen-tools before

Is initramfs' /dev supposed to show exposed targets at Guest Boot Time?

2021-01-28 Thread John L. Poole
Greetings, I try to run Xen on low energy platforms.  I've previously been here about an Intal Atom which died just after the 3 year warranty expired.  So I'm trying AMD's laptop Ryzen.  I think I've been using Xen for 8 years. I have Debian (Linux snuc 4.19.0-13-amd64 #1 SMP Debian

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.12.0-rc Hangs Around masked ExtINT on CPU#

2019-09-25 Thread John L. Poole
On 5/28/2019 8:02 AM, John L. Poole wrote: On 5/28/2019 12:41 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 03:35:21PM -0700, John L. Poole wrote: On 5/27/2019 9:18 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 05:27:34PM +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote: IMO it would be better

[Xen-devel] Intel Atom CPU model (C2750) Woes & Debian

2019-05-29 Thread John L. Poole
Referencing the expanding the thread I started several months ago entitled "Xen 4.12.0-rc Hangs Around masked ExtINT on CPU#", I installed a fresh hard drive on my Supermicro Atom server class unit and did the following: per:

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.12.0-rc Hangs Around masked ExtINT on CPU#

2019-05-28 Thread John L. Poole
On 5/28/2019 12:41 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 03:35:21PM -0700, John L. Poole wrote: On 5/27/2019 9:18 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 05:27:34PM +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote: IMO it would be better if you can build directly from the upstream git

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.12.0-rc Hangs Around masked ExtINT on CPU#

2019-05-28 Thread John L. Poole
On 5/28/2019 12:41 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 03:35:21PM -0700, John L. Poole wrote: On 5/27/2019 9:18 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 05:27:34PM +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote: IMO it would be better if you can build directly from the upstream git

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.12.0-rc Hangs Around masked ExtINT on CPU#

2019-05-27 Thread John L. Poole
On 5/27/2019 9:18 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 05:27:34PM +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote: IMO it would be better if you can build directly from the upstream git repository [0], that way you could use git-bisect(1) in order to figure out which commit broke your system. For

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.12.0-rc Hangs Around masked ExtINT on CPU#

2019-04-29 Thread John L. Poole
On 4/29/2019 5:02 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 09:23:11AM -0700, John L. Poole wrote: On 3/27/2019 7:21 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: On 27.03.19 at 14:25, wrote: On 3/27/2019 1:14 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: On 26.03.19 at 18:21, wrote: zeta /usr/local/src/xen # cat xen

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.12.0-rc Hangs Around masked ExtINT on CPU#

2019-04-16 Thread John L. Poole
On 3/27/2019 7:21 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: On 27.03.19 at 14:25, wrote: On 3/27/2019 1:14 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: On 26.03.19 at 18:21, wrote: zeta /usr/local/src/xen # cat xen/.config |grep CONFIG_HVM # CONFIG_HVM is not set zeta /usr/local/src/xen # # tried 2 boot attempts log at:

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.12.0-rc Hangs Around masked ExtINT on CPU#

2019-03-27 Thread John L. Poole
On 3/27/2019 1:14 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: On 26.03.19 at 18:21, wrote: zeta /usr/local/src/xen # cat xen/.config |grep CONFIG_HVM # CONFIG_HVM is not set zeta /usr/local/src/xen # # tried 2 boot attempts log at: https://pastebin.com/nL4BWJ6Y Hang points at lines: Thanks for trying anyway;

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.12.0-rc Hangs Around masked ExtINT on CPU#

2019-03-26 Thread John L. Poole
On 3/26/2019 1:04 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: On 25.03.19 at 18:00, wrote: I removed the "maxcpus=1" and attempted seven (7) boots. There were minor variations, they do not seem to get past the first additional processor. Below is a summary. And with "maxcpus=1" in place, is it as stable hanging

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.12.0-rc Hangs Around masked ExtINT on CPU#

2019-03-25 Thread John L. Poole
On 3/25/2019 8:53 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: On 22.03.19 at 10:53, wrote: 2) Xen Source - here is the log of an attempt adding "cpuinfor maxcpus=1" as an option in myman_xen.cfg: https://pastebin.com/ifHZqCuX (6months) Well, the "maxcpus=1" doesn't really hide the issue (anymore) because we now

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.12.0-rc Hangs Around masked ExtINT on CPU#

2019-03-24 Thread John L. Poole
On 3/23/2019 11:50 PM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 05:46:26PM -0700, John L. Poole wrote: On 3/22/2019 7:40 AM, Andrew Cooper wrote: On 22/03/2019 09:53, John L. Poole wrote: 3)Xen Source - here is the log of an attempt adding "cpuinfor maxcpus=1 watchdog" as

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.12.0-rc Hangs Around masked ExtINT on CPU#

2019-03-22 Thread John L. Poole
On 3/22/2019 7:40 AM, Andrew Cooper wrote: On 22/03/2019 09:53, John L. Poole wrote: 3)Xen Source - here is the log of an attempt adding "cpuinfor maxcpus=1 watchdog" as an option in myman_xen.cfg: https://pastebin.com/b682FWmC (6 months) The last 12 lines: (XEN) [2019-03-22 09:37:4

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.12.0-rc Hangs Around masked ExtINT on CPU#

2019-03-22 Thread John L. Poole
On 3/22/2019 12:59 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 10:06:38AM -0700, John L. Poole wrote: Boot Hangs at: HVM: HAP page sizes: 4kB, 2MB or Adding cpu [INSERT 1-7] to runqueue 0 Log (preserved for 6 months at https://pastebin.com/BDPP7Pzk) fs0:\efi\gentoo> man_xen.ef

[Xen-devel] Xen 4.12.0-rc Hangs Around masked ExtINT on CPU#

2019-03-21 Thread John L. Poole
Boot Hangs at: HVM: HAP page sizes: 4kB, 2MB or Adding cpu [INSERT 1-7] to runqueue 0 Log (preserved for 6 months at https://pastebin.com/BDPP7Pzk) fs0:\efi\gentoo> man_xen.efiip startup.nsh, any other key to continue. Xen 4.12.0-rc (c/s Mon Feb 25 13:06:22 2019 + git:f393b82fe5-dirty)

Re: [Xen-devel] [BUG] Sporadic boot of Xen Kernel 4.12.0, hangs at random EXTInt

2019-03-15 Thread John L. Poole
On 3/15/2019 2:30 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote: On 15/03/2019 20:49, Andrew Cooper wrote: On 15/03/2019 18:35, John L. Poole wrote: I have a Supermicro Intel Atom based server with UEFI.  I purchased the server in November 2016 intending to run Xen server.  I was able to overcome some problem

Re: [Xen-devel] [BUG] Sporadic boot of Xen Kernel 4.12.0, hangs at random EXTInt

2019-03-15 Thread John L. Poole
On 3/15/2019 1:49 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote: On 15/03/2019 18:35, John L. Poole wrote: I have a Supermicro Intel Atom based server with UEFI.  I purchased the server in November 2016 intending to run Xen server.  I was able to overcome some problem in 2016 with help from the Xen Project and I

[Xen-devel] [BUG] Sporadic boot of Xen Kernel 4.12.0, hangs at random EXTInt

2019-03-15 Thread John L. Poole
I have a Supermicro Intel Atom based server with UEFI.  I purchased the server in November 2016 intending to run Xen server.  I was able to overcome some problem in 2016 with help from the Xen Project and I was able to load a xen kernel built in Gentoo for Gentoo VMs manually using the EFI