On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 03:09:07PM +0300, Valtteri Kiviniemi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yes, of course. I disabled these options:
>
> Processor type and features:
> [*] Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support
> [*] ACPI NUMA detection
>
> Power management and ACPI options --->
> ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support
> -*- NUMA support
>
Ok. Good to know.
> Any Ideas howto debug the VNC problem any further?
>
Maybe start a new thread about the VNC problem.. it seems to be a separate issue.
-- Pasi
> - Valtteri
>
> 2012/10/3 Pasi Kärkkäinen <[1]pasik@xxxxxx>
>
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 12:21:47PM +0300, Valtteri Kiviniemi wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I disabled NUMA and upgraded to Xen 4.2.0. Windows domU starts now
> fine
> > and I cant anymore reproduce the hotplug problems. VNC output is
> still
> > just black screen and it actually crashes the the whole VNC client
> when
> > after a few seconds. RealVNC just shuts itself down and tightvnc
> crashes.
> >
>
> Valtteri: Can you actually paste the names of the .config options you
> disabled
> and got the dom0 kernel working without crashes?
>
> Maybe Konrad can comment if the current upstream dom0 kernel is supposed
> to work
> with NUMA support enabled / compiled in?
>
> -- Pasi
>
> > - Valtteri
> >
> > 2012/10/2 Valtteri Kiviniemi <[1][2]kiviniemi.valtteri@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Yes, they are all loaded and I'm running Linux PV-virtuals at the
> same
> > time with no problems. Only HVM is not working. I have single
> socket
> > corei7 processor and NUMA enabled on dom0 kernel, so I will try
> tomorrow
> > to compile dom0 kernel without NUMA, since its not needed and it
> could
> > probably cause some kind of memory related problems.
> >
> > I will also try Debian squeezes package Xen and test if it is
> working
> > with my hardware.
> >
> > - Valtteri
> >
> > 2012/10/2 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[2][3]konrad@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Valtteri Kiviniemi
> > <[3][4]
kiviniemi.valtteri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Yes, I understood for what the parameters were for. I'ts been
> a long
> > time
> > > since I last had major problems with Xen (maybe 3.1 or
> something,
> > been using
> > > Xen since version 2) and I had a shady recollection that Xen
> was
> > required to
> > > be build debugging enabled in order to get any usable
> debugging
> > data.
> > >
> > > But anyway, I cant reproduce that kernel crash everytime, it
> just
> > happens
> > > sometimes. Major problem is the black screen on VNC and
> second
> > problem seems
> > > to be that everytime i try to run Linux in HVM mode it
> somehow
> > breaks the
> > > hotplug scripts.
> > >
> >
> > So do you have all backends loaded? Is xen-netback and
> xen-blkback
> > running?
> > Do you also have tun loaded?
> >
> > References
> >
> > Visible links
> > 2. mailto:[6]konrad@xxxxxxxxxx
> > 3. mailto:[7]kiviniemi.valtteri@xxxxxxxxx
>
> References
>
> Visible links
> 1. mailto:pasik@xxxxxx
> 2. mailto:kiviniemi.valtteri@xxxxxxxxx
> 3. mailto:konrad@xxxxxxxxxx
> 4. mailto:kiviniemi.valtteri@xxxxxxxxx
> 5. mailto:kiviniemi.valtteri@xxxxxxxxx
> 6. mailto:konrad@xxxxxxxxxx
> 7. mailto:kiviniemi.valtteri@xxxxxxxxx
