X-Original-To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org Delivered-To: alpine-devel@mail.alpinelinux.org Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.122]) by mail.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D493FDC0157 for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 09:38:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=AtpsLZBP c=1 sm=0 a=oduF7dw7g65VNi/WRqLWLg==:17 a=AYtvlsPc0voA:10 a=TGMQHFMEAFsA:10 a=05ChyHeVI94A:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=ayC55rCoAAAA:8 a=7CXywABqAAAA:8 a=-WRoXgl-AAAA:8 a=mr0u-FsSAAAA:8 a=Ho3qAKGHAAAA:8 a=kmYkUENqAAAA:8 a=20KFwNOVAAAA:8 a=mLnsDVdbAAAA:8 a=cbHMppcSrbvbdVgS9vwA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=Wo9gMc8QldYA:10 a=oYB84naBAbYA:10 a=wMfcgBvpa2UA:10 a=GVrtu5Daf7MA:10 a=oduF7dw7g65VNi/WRqLWLg==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 98.155.205.72 Received: from [98.155.205.72] ([98.155.205.72:49473] helo=[192.168.1.101]) by hrndva-oedge01.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.3.46 r()) with ESMTP id 39/7C-09809-429CEEF4; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 09:38:45 +0000 From: Dean Takemori Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] Notes on Alpine 2.4.2 in Amazon EC2 Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:38:44 -1000 Message-Id: To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org X-Mailinglist: alpine-devel Precedence: list List-Id: Alpine Development List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) > From: Natanael Copa > Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 21:45:37 +0200 > > On Wed, 30 May 2012 23:25:53 +0530 > "V.Krishn" wrote: > > > On Tuesday, May 29, 2012 08:39:56 PM Natanael Copa wrote: > > > On Sun, 27 May 2012 09:00:47 -0700 > > > > > > Nathan Angelacos wrote: > > > > * Booting the 64bit kernel reports: > > > > can only boot x86 32 PAE kernels, not xen-3.0-x86_64 > > > > Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format > > > > > > I built a kernel dedicated for virtual guests. One of the goals is > > > to make it as small as possible. I have no idea if it even boots at > > > this point but feedback is welcome. > > > > > > I'd like it to include drivers for qemu/kvm, xen, vmware, virtualbox > > > and hyper-v guests. > > > > > > It is in edge/testing and is named linux-virt-grsec. > > > > > > > Can we see a bootable iso in edge/releases or a wiki help page on how > > to create one. It would be great to have a lighter iso suited for > > virtual guests. I could test using kvm and install/test pmreader on > > it. (http://insteps.net/pr/a/pmwiki/Apps/PmReader-help-v1-1) > > I built one for testing > http://dev.alpinelinux.org/~ncopa/alpine/alpine-virt/ Hi, I've tried the alpine-virt-120531-x86.iso as a PV guest under Xen (32 and 64 bit Centos 5 and 64 bit Fedora 17), and it appears to run up against this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=829016#c4 Namely "unable to handle kernel paging request" in atomic64_read_cx8 Looks like a patch is going in for upstream: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-06/msg00486.html But for current Alpine, if it's not too much trouble, could you guys generate a kernel/iso with CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=n Thanks, -dean takemori --- Unsubscribe: alpine-devel+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org Help: alpine-devel+help@lists.alpinelinux.org ---