XEN Kernel wont boot with GeForce 9600 GT
 

HI

I installed Opesuse 11.2 and I manged to install the Nvidia driver and it works fine. Then I enabled the Compiz and it works fine. During the Opensuse 11.2 installation I installed the XEN becuase I wanted to run multipile XEN guest, I have Nividi GeForce 9600 GT and I have 8 G of RAM and 1.5 TB.


When I decided to boot from XEN mode, it do not boot and it went to the terminal, I logged in I tried to install the Nivid driver in XEN mood and I wan in the init 3, it says:

The NVIDIA driver does not currently work on Xen kernels. If you are using a stock distribution kernel, please install a variant of this kernel without Xen support; if this is a
custom kernel, please install a standard Linux kernel. Then try installing the NVIDIA kernel module again.

I tried with the following Nvidia Driver;

NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.22-pkg2.run
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg2.run
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-195.22-pkg2.run

after installing the above driver in normal kernel (non XEN kernel), it works fine but as soon as I boot to the XEN mode it just goes the terminal.

Kernel info:
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rpm -qa | grep -i kernel
kernel-source-2.6.31.5-0.1.1.noarch
linux-kernel-headers-2.6.31-3.4.noarch
kernel-xen-2.6.31.5-0.1.1.x86_64
kernel-xen-base-2.6.31.5-0.1.1.x86_64
kernel-default-devel-2.6.31.5-0.1.1.x86_64
kernel-syms-2.6.31.5-0.1.1.x86_64
kernel-default-2.6.31.5-0.1.1.x86_64
kernel-desktop-2.6.31.5-0.1.1.x86_64
patterns-openSUSE-devel_kernel-11.2-20.22.1.x86_64
kernel-desktop-devel-2.6.31.5-0.1.1.x86_64
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.31.5-0.1.1.x86_64
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.31.5-0.1.1.x86_64

Linux suse11 2.6.31.5-0.1-default #1 SMP 2009-10-26 15:49:03 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

The X11 fiel :
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suse11:~/Download # cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder62) Wed Nov 11 06:45:14 PST 2009


Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

suse11:~/Download # lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia 8115664 44
suse11:~/Download # lspci | grep -i vga

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 GT] (rev a1)

It must be some wrong with my installation or is there any patch for that. any help will be really good, thanks for your help

Regards,
Sarhang

Re: XEN Kernel wont boot with GeForce 9600 GT
 

try the linux forum below

Re: XEN Kernel wont boot with GeForce 9600 GT
 

As i know currently nvidia drivers doesn't work
with xen
:(