nvidia driver does not work under xen-hypervisor -status?

[Goswin von Brederlow]

Lukasz Szybalski <szybalski at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
> What is the conclusion of this bug?
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570365
>
> Debian squeeze, xen and nvidia driver are not supported and will not
> work in this release?

I'm pretty sure it doesn't work in squeeze and is not going to change
there. Or did the point release contain updates for nvidia?

But it should be working in wheezy or when you use a newer kernel and
nvidia on squeeze (backports?).

> What is causing the problem? Is it nvidia driver? Is there a version
> of nvida driver where this issue is fixed?

For me it was that the nvidia module would conflict with
CONFIG_XEN*. They simply failed to build even when following some
workarounds I found with google.

> Is there a workaround or patch?

Try it with the latest kernel+driver and google if you have problems. I
hope the issue is fixed upstream by now but I simply haven't had time to
setup a test system to try again yet.

So what needs to happen now is that someone tries this again and reports
back.

> What needs to happen for this to work in squeeze?

Don't expect it to work in squeeze but it should be fixable with
backports (if it isn't fixed already). Again, someone needs to test and
report back.

> Bug was marked as upstream/won't fix. What does that mean for users?
>
> Thanks,
> Lucas

MfG
        Goswin