On Jun 19, 2014 12:15 AM, Bill McGonigle <b...@bfccomputing.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 02:12:17PM -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> >> > Hi, everybody,
> >> > 
> >> > Went to give PVH a try, seeing as we have 4.4 and 3.14 now in f20, but:
> >> > 
> >> > # grep XEN.*PV /boot/config-3.14.4-200.fc20.x86_64
> >> > CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM=y
> >> > # CONFIG_XEN_PVH is not set
> >> > CONFIG_XEN_HAVE_PVMMU=y
>
> Posting my notes here, in case anybody else is trying it and wants to 
> compare.  I haven't yet had luck getting a pvh domU to launch.  I think I'm 
> doing what the documentation calls for, but clearly something is missing.
>
> Current bits are up here:
>   https://www.bfccomputing.com/downloads/fedora/xen/f20/
>
> I've got Xen 4.4 booting and a kernel built with PVH support, but when 
> starting a domU with 'pvh=1' I get:
>
>   xc_dom_parse_image: unsupported feature requested

Could you also include 'xl dmesg' please?

>
> and the domain fails to build.  I did verify that BUILD/kernel-foo/.config is 
> getting the entry, and it sure looks like the symbols are in the kernel:
>
>   [root@librescu xen]# grep -i pvh /boot/config-3.14.4-200.xenpvh.fc20.x86_64 
> /boot/System.map-3.14.4-200.xenpvh.fc20.x86_64 
>   /boot/config-3.14.4-200.xenpvh.fc20.x86_64:# Linux/x86_64 
> 3.14.4-200.xenpvh.fc20.x86_64 Kernel Configuration
>   /boot/config-3.14.4-200.xenpvh.fc20.x86_64:CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM=y
>   /boot/config-3.14.4-200.xenpvh.fc20.x86_64:CONFIG_XEN_PVH=y
>   /boot/System.map-3.14.4-200.xenpvh.fc20.x86_64:ffffffff81004340 t 
> xen_pvh_set_cr_flags
>   /boot/System.map-3.14.4-200.xenpvh.fc20.x86_64:ffffffff816e04d0 T 
> xen_pvh_secondary_vcpu_init
>   /boot/System.map-3.14.4-200.xenpvh.fc20.x86_64:ffffffff81d2a0a9 t 
> xen_pvh_gnttab_setup
>   /boot/System.map-3.14.4-200.xenpvh.fc20.x86_64:ffffffff81e5fd48 t 
> __initcall_xen_pvh_gnttab_setup1
>   [root@librescu xen]# uname -r
>   3.14.4-200.xenpvh.fc20.x86_64
>
> So, I'm not sure what's up.  I added "loglvl=all guest_loglvl=all" to grub 
> and can get another reboot in this weekend to see if there's any more info 
> logged.
>
> It also looks like I should update my 4.4 tarball to the stable-4.4 branch 
> for non-broken guest shutdowns (but one step at a time).
>
> -Bill
>
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