virt April 2010

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Re: [CentOS-virt] SOLVED! Xen HVM domU won't start since updates to 2.6.18-164.15.1 kernels
by Christopher G. Stach II 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

----- "Aaron Clark" <ophidian(a)ophidian.homeip.net> wrote: > On 03/30/2010 07:33 AM, Sergio Charpinel Jr. wrote: > > Aaron, > > > > Seems to be something related to your block device. > > > > Try this config file: > > Sergio, > > I just tried this config and it booted fine: > name = "Belldandy" > maxmem = 256 > memory = 256 > vcpus = 1 > builder = "hvm" > kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader" > boot = "c" > pae = 1 > on_poweroff = "destroy" > on_reboot = "restart" > on_crash = "restart" > device_model = "/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm" > disk = [ "phy:/dev/SystemsVG/Belldandy,hda,w" ] > vif = [ "mac=00:16:3e:29:65:46,bridge=xenbr0,script=vif-bridge" ] > vnc = 1 > > Attached is the generated virsh xml from the above. > > I'm going to tinker with this for a bit to try and figure out what > difference from the previous config is actually the cause of the > issue. > I just had the other, formerly working VM, bail with the same symptoms > once I got this one work. The workaround is nice but I definitely > want to isolate this bug now. Try mucking with the acpi and apic flags. IIRC, they both default to 0 in this version of Xen so by eliding them, you turned them off. On the right machine, either will screw up HVM. -- Christopher G. Stach II http://ldsys.net/~cgs/

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