All,
I have CentOS 5.2 XEN guests running on a CentOS 5.2 host.
At one time when I issued an 'init 6' in one of the XEN guests it rebooted Now it seems to halt but virt-manager shows it as still running and the only way to get the guest to boot is to destroy the virtual machine and start it again.
Unfortunately I didn't notice precisely when this change in behavior occurred, I believe it was the last 'yum update' that included a new XEN kernel, but I cannot say for sure.
Has anyone else noticed this change in behavior? Any solutions to restore the older behavior, being able to 'init 6' the virtual machine was very useful.
Thank you,
Brett
Brett Serkez wrote on Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:23:16 -0400:
At one time when I issued an 'init 6' in one of the XEN guests it rebooted
I usually use xm reboot from the host. You can also use reboot from within the guest. I remember *one* occurence quite a few months back where after an update I had problems to shut a VM down. But it happened only that one time. Note, there is a centos-virt list.
Kai
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Kai Schaetzl maillists@conactive.com wrote:
Brett Serkez wrote on Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:23:16 -0400:
At one time when I issued an 'init 6' in one of the XEN guests it rebooted
I've narrowed the issue to the xend and xendomains daemons.
On one of my systems I was able to init 6 and init 0 no problem, then suddenly I could not, when this occurred, CPU utilization was 100% on one CPU on the host with the guest said either "Restarting System" or "System Halted". After some investigation I found that if I restarted the xend and xendomains services I could once again init 0 and init 6.
I usually use xm reboot from the host. You can also use reboot from within the guest. I remember *one* occurence quite a few months back where after an update I had problems to shut a VM down. But it happened only that one time. Note, there is a centos-virt list.
Thanks for this tip, I have signed up on the centos-virt list.
Brett
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