Test Day:2009-09-17 Virtualization XenDomU: Difference between revisions

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DATE	TIME	WHERE
Thursday Sep 17, 2009	All day	#fedora-test-day (webchat)

What to test?[edit]

This part of today's Fedora Test Day will focus on testing the area concerned with Xen DomU functionality, which is based on the pv_ops work in upstream Linux.

If you come to this page after the test day is completed, your testing is still valuable, and you can use the information on this page to test Fedora as a Xen DomU and provide feedback.

Who's available[edit]

Andrew Jones (Drew) is your host for today.

The following people have also agreed to be available for testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion:

add your name here

What's needed to test[edit]

A distribution with Xen Dom0 support. This can either be Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, CentOS 5, Suse, Fedora, etc. We also highly recommend that your distribution is fully updated to the latest released packages. See instructions on the main test day page.
At least one guest image installed before the test day (suggested reading - Virtualization_Quick_Start).

Known issues and workarounds[edit]

Note, the following list of issues were compiled while testing on RHEL 5.4. Other host platforms and/or Xen packages may have varying results. Please test :-)

RHEL specific: pygrub does not support ext4, however rawhide defaults to ext4. Therefore this must be manually changed to ext3 (at least for /boot) during the installation, or an appropriate kickstart can be used.
'xm console <domain>' will not work until 'console=hvc0' has been added to the kernel command line in grub.conf, see bz523623.
RHEL specific on machines with GB pages: add 'nogbpages' to the guest kernel command-line for guests with >2GB memory, see bz502826

Test cases[edit]

Execute the list of test cases for each of the following configurations:

32-bit Dom0

32-bit PV DomU
32-bit HVM DomU

64-bit Dom0

32-bit PV DomU
64-bit PV DomU
64-bit HVM DomU

Test cases:

See Reporting Virtualization bugs for a guide to reporting bugs.

Issues that were identified[edit]

Tester	Description	Bug references	Status
jdenemar	Mouse doesn't work in Fedora running as a Xen PV guest	#523914	NEW
jdenemar	32b kernel doesn't boot in Xen PV guest on 64b host	#523941	NEW
jdenemar	xm save hangs with kernel-2.6.31-14.fc12 running as a Xen PV guest	#523971	NEW
mrezanin	Save on restored machine failed	#523939	NEW
drjones	add console=hvc0 to grub.conf	#523623	NEW
drjones	boot hang when installing 64-bit HVM	#524052	NEW
drjones	block device cannot be detached	#524039	NEW

@@ Line 10: / Line 10: @@
 === What to test? ===
-This part of [[Test_Day:2009-09-17_Virtualization|today's Fedora Test Day]] will focus on testing the area concerned with Xen DomU functionality, which is based on the pv_ops work in upstream Linux.
+This part of [[Test_Day:2009-09-17_Virtualization|today's Fedora Test Day]] will focus on testing the area concerned with Xen DomU functionality, which is based on the [[Features/XenPvops|pv_ops]] work in upstream Linux.
 If you come to this page after the test day is completed, your testing is still valuable, and you can use the information on this page to test Fedora as a Xen DomU and provide feedback.
@@ Line 16: / Line 16: @@
 === Who's available ===
-[[User:drjones|Andrew (Drew) Jones]] is your host for today.
+[[User:drjones|Andrew Jones (Drew)]] is your host for today.
 The following people have also agreed to be available for testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion:
@@ Line 27: / Line 27: @@
 * At least one guest image installed before the test day (suggested reading - [[Virtualization_Quick_Start]]).
-=== Test Cases ===
+=== Known issues and workarounds ===
+Note, the following list of issues were compiled while testing on RHEL 5.4. Other host platforms and/or Xen packages may have varying results.  Please test :-)
+* RHEL specific: pygrub does not support ext4, however rawhide defaults to ext4. Therefore this must be manually changed to ext3 (at least for /boot) during the installation, or an appropriate kickstart can be used.
+* 'xm console <domain>' will not work until 'console=hvc0' has been added to the kernel command line in grub.conf, see [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523623 bz523623].
+* RHEL specific on machines with GB pages: add 'nogbpages' to the guest kernel command-line for guests with >2GB memory, see [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502826 bz502826]
+=== Test cases ===
 Execute the list of test cases for each of the following configurations:
-With a 32-bit Dom0
+-bit Dom0
-# 32-bit PV DomU
+* 32-bit PV DomU
-# 32-bit HVM DomU without PV-on-HVM drivers
+* 32-bit HVM DomU
-# 32-bit HVM DomU with PV-on-HVM drivers
-With a 64-bit Dom0
+-bit Dom0
-# 32-bit PV DomU
+* 32-bit PV DomU
-# 64-bit PV DomU
+* 64-bit PV DomU
-# 64-bit HVM DomU without PV-on-HVM drivers
+* 64-bit HVM DomU
-# 64-bit HVM DomU with PV-on-HVM drivers
 Test cases:
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 # [[QA:Testcase_Virtualization_XenDomU_CPU_hotplug|CPU hotplug]]
 # [[QA:Testcase_Virtualization_XenDomU_Network|Network devices]]
+# [[QA:Testcase_Virtualization_XenDomU_Network_Performance|Network Performance]]
 # [[QA:Testcase_Virtualization_XenDomU_Block_attach|Block attach/detach]]
+# [[QA:Testcase_Virtualization_XenDomU_File_IO_Performance|File IO Performance]]
 # [[QA:Testcase_Virtualization_XenDomU_PVFB|Paravirt framebuffer]]
 # [[QA:Testcase_Virtualization_XenDomU_Crash_dump|Guest crash dump]]
@@ Line 59: / Line 67: @@
 # [[QA:Testcase_Virtualization_XenDomU_Cmdline_params|Kernel command line parameters]]
 # [[QA:Testcase_Virtualization_XenDomU_No_NX|Host machine lacking NX support]]
+# [[QA:Testcase_Virtualization_XenDomU_LDT|Attempt to use the modify_ldt syscall]]
-See [[Reporting_virtualization_bugs|Reporting Virtualization bugs]] for a guide to reporting bugs.
+See [[How to debug Virtualization problems|Reporting Virtualization bugs]] for a guide to reporting bugs.
 === Issues that were identified ===
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 | Tester || Description || Bug references || Status
 |-
-| || || [http://bugzilla.redhat.com/XXXXXX #XXXXX] || '''ASSIGNED'''
+| [[User:Jdenemar|jdenemar]] || Mouse doesn't work in Fedora running as a Xen PV guest || [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/523914 #523914] || '''NEW'''
+|-
+| [[User:Jdenemar|jdenemar]] || 32b kernel doesn't boot in Xen PV guest on 64b host || [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/523941 #523941] || '''NEW'''
+|-
+| [[User:Jdenemar|jdenemar]] || xm save hangs with kernel-2.6.31-14.fc12 running as a Xen PV guest || [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/523971 #523971] || '''NEW'''
+|-
+| mrezanin || Save on restored machine failed || [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/523939 #523939] || '''NEW'''
+|-
+| [[User:Drjones|drjones]] || add console=hvc0 to grub.conf || [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/523623 #523623] || '''NEW'''
+|-
+| [[User:Drjones|drjones]] || boot hang when installing 64-bit HVM || [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/524052 #524052] || '''NEW'''
+|-
+| [[User:Drjones|drjones]] || block device cannot be detached || [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/524039 #524039] || '''NEW'''
 |}
-[[Category:Test Days]]
+[[Category:Fedora_12_Test_Days]]
 [[Category:Virtualization]]

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