Monday, December 31, 2007
xVM crashes on IBM X60
After a few round of reinstalling of opensolaris b77, I realized that the problem is not due to my installation. The only partially failed package was SUNWfilebench, the rest all looks in /var/sadm/install_data/install_log.
When I choose SXCE, everything runs fine. But when I choose xVM, everything also ok provided I don't login to GUI (GNOME/CDE). Every attempt will cause the whole system crash.
Since I am not trained on crash dump analysis, google may provide me some hints. After some tries of different keywords combination, "xen intel graphic cards" lead me to a bug (177465) on bugzilla.novell.com .
So it's the graphic driver not working properly with XEN. Before the next build of OpenSolaris, my workaround is to use "vesa" instead of "intel" driver.
Just go to command line login with root, run "/usr/X11R6/bin/xorgcfg", save the /etc/X11/xorg.conf
then change "intel" to "vesa" in the "Device" section.
When I choose SXCE, everything runs fine. But when I choose xVM, everything also ok provided I don't login to GUI (GNOME/CDE). Every attempt will cause the whole system crash.
Since I am not trained on crash dump analysis, google may provide me some hints. After some tries of different keywords combination, "xen intel graphic cards" lead me to a bug (177465) on bugzilla.novell.com .
So it's the graphic driver not working properly with XEN. Before the next build of OpenSolaris, my workaround is to use "vesa" instead of "intel" driver.
Just go to command line login with root, run "/usr/X11R6/bin/xorgcfg", save the /etc/X11/xorg.conf
then change "intel" to "vesa" in the "Device" section.
// posted by GlaDoo @ 4:00 PM 
