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Hi All,

I'd like to install Xen on a laptop. Wait scratch that, I have installed xen with some issues.

I can't seem to get my touchpad working in any install whenever I load Xen. This is for Dom0 not DomU. Everything else seems to work, even wifi. Well I can't really test anything, but one time I tried with ubuntu and I could load up the terminal, and I tried xl info? I think and it spit out everything that was expected. So I know xen loads.

The mouse is drawn, the little arrow/pointer, but I can't move it. And the screen right before load up, I'd assume some serial spit out says something about some IRQ error and something else about BIOS/PCI something something, though it vanishes so fast that I can't read. I'm guessing its either an Interrupt problem related to an error on the ISR that should initiate, or a driver error on my touchpad side, or both.

Now that this utterly vague description is out of the way let me go into the config:

I tried xen on

Fedora 20, 21 and 22

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and 15.04

with the linux kernel dating as far back as 3.1.xx on Fedora 20.

Fedora 20:

Couldn't try Xen since it wouldn't load on the grub menu at all.

Fedora 21 and 22:

Mouse shows up, but I can't do anything. Keyboard works. Can type things, can't load terminal since I can't move the mouse

Ubuntu 14.04 with Kernel 4.1.xx:

Crashes

Ubuntu 14.04 with Kernel 3.x.xx:

Loads Xen, confirmed on terminal, mouse doesn't work

Ubuntu 15.04:

Yeah doesn't work still.

I actually had UEFI secure boot on, that didn't work so back to legacy support mode.

Software Installation instructions:

Xen - Community Help Wiki



		Xen - Community Help Wiki Introduction Contents Introduction During installation of Ubuntu Installing Xen Network Configuration Creating vms Manually Create a PV Guest VM Manually installing an HVM Guest VM

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Installing Xen on Fedora 20 - major.io



				Installing Xen on Fedora 20 - major.io Iâve written about installing Xen on Fedora 19 and earlier versions on this blog before. Letâs tackle it on Fedora 20. Start with the Xen hypervisor and the basic t...

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Fedora Host Installation - Xen



		Fedora Host Installation - Xen From Xen Jump to: navigation, search Contents 1 Installing Fedora 1.1 Base System Installation 1.2 Updating the System 1.3 Using the virt-preview Repository 1.4 Disabling SELinux

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Hardware Description:

Lenovo W530, UEFI Boot Legacy/Secure Hybrid selection, 16gb of RAM, 500gb SSD (SATA III/ACHI), Keyboard works, Touchpad does not, i7 36xxQ with Intel Vt-d ON.

Hard Drive partitioned as follows: (/root : 50GB, /Boot: 1GB, /Boot/efi: 1GB, Home: 200gb, Swap: 8gb, Var: Off)

[Xen-users] Xen Laptop Install Issues