virt June 2010

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is the xenconsoled crash solved?
by Fernando Gleiser 11 Jun '10

11 Jun '10

One of our machines are being bitten by that bug, once every 2-4 weeks or so xenconsoled dies and all the VMs stop responding intil xenconsoled is restarted. I googled for it and I saw many people reporting it but no solution for it. Does anyone know if it is solved in 5.5? I can't upgrade the box (it's a production box) unless I can prove the problem will go away. thanks in advance

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Is kvm ready for prime time?
by Lars Hecking 11 Jun '10

11 Jun '10

Hi all, I've started playing with kvm on CentOS 5.5, with not much success so far. In a nutshell, I have the same problem as http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2010-April/001854.html I followed the RHEL5 virtualization guide to set up a bridge interface br0, and then used virt-install (rather than virt-manager - I like automation) to set up the vm. It hangs at some point. The command line is slightly modified from the one I was using with xen. Running it with -d shows that the correct hypervisor is used and the network install source is found. Otherwise, I'm fresh out of ideas. # lsmod|grep kvm kvm_intel 86920 0 kvm 226208 2 ksm,kvm_intel # uname -a Linux x3250 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 #1 SMP Thu May 13 13:08:30 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux # virt-install -r 512 -n test -f /dev/vol0/lvol4 --nographics --os-type=linux --os-variant=rhel5.4 --accelerate -w bridge:br0 -l http://centos/centos/x86_64 -x ks=http://centos/centos/kickstart/ks.test.cfg -m 00:16:3e:30:4d:80 Starting install... Retrieving file .treeinfo... | 417 B 00:00 Retrieving file vmlinuz... | 1.9 MB 00:00 Retrieving file initrd.img... | 7.7 MB 00:00 Creating domain... | 0 B 00:00 Connected to domain test Escape character is ^] --------------------------------------------------------------- This message and any attachments may contain Cypress (or its subsidiaries) confidential information. If it has been received in error, please advise the sender and immediately delete this message. ---------------------------------------------------------------

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allocating pci resources starting at a8000000 (gap: a0000000:5ec00000)
by MtK - 012 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

Hello, I've installed XEN according to this tutorial: <http://www.howtoforge.com/paravirtualization-with-xen-on-centos-5.4-x86_64> http://www.howtoforge.com/paravirtualization-with-xen-on-centos-5.4-x86_64 on the first XEN boot, it freezes for a very long time on: allocating pci resources starting at a8000000 (gap: a0000000:5ec00000) (the centos installation works fine) I then realized that this is caused when I set the BIOS to use Virtualization. (when I disable it, XEN boots up nicely). I have: <http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=27236> http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=27236 so I can't find any reason why this is not working... I’d appreciate any help on this matter. Regards, MtK

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Xen 3.1.2 on CentOS 5.5 doesn't see all 4 CPUs
by Bryan A. Ignatow 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

Hello all, I've been digging around on this for a few days and I have not come up with a solution. I have a Compaq ProLiant DL580 (G1, the old tan Compaq) with 4 x 700MHz P-III CPUs and 11GB of memory. I've loaded CentOS 5.5 with Virtualization (Xen) + KVM and patched up to current (full KS packages file list at the end). When it boots, Xen only detects a single CPU as shown in the xm dmesg output (full output and the end): (XEN) Detected 701.650 MHz processor. (XEN) I/O virtualisation disabled (XEN) CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Cascades) stepping 04 (XEN) Platform timer overflows in 2 jiffies. (XEN) Platform timer is 1.193MHz PIT (XEN) Brought up 1 CPUs [...] (XEN) Dom0 has maximum 1 VCPUs The system shows all 4 CPUs when booted outside of Xen. Any ideas on Xen options or anything I can try to see if I can get all 4 CPUs? Thanks, Bryan ___________________________________________________________________ __ __ _____ _ ____ _ ___ _ _ _____ _ _ ____ \ \/ /___ _ __ |___ / / | |___ \ / |/ _ \| || | |___ / / | ___| | ___| \ // _ \ _ \ |_ \ | | __) |__| | (_) | || |_ |_ \ | | / _ \ |___ \ / \ __/ | | | ___) || |_ / __/|__| |\__, |__ _| ___) || || __/ |___) | /_/\_\___|_| |_| |____(_)_(_)_____| |_| /_/ |_|(_)____(_)_(_)___|_|____/ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/netos/xen University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Xen version 3.1.2-194.3.1.el5 (mockbuild(a)centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)) Thu May 13 13:02:01 EDT 2010 Latest ChangeSet: unavailable (XEN) Command line: dom0_mem=1024M crashkernel=128M@16M (XEN) Video information: (XEN) VGA is text mode 80x25, font 8x16 (XEN) VBE/DDC methods: V2; EDID transfer time: 2 seconds (XEN) Disc information: (XEN) Found 2 MBR signatures (XEN) Found 2 EDD information structures (XEN) Xen-e820 RAM map: (XEN) 0000000000000000 - 000000000009d800 (usable) (XEN) 000000000009d800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) (XEN) 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) (XEN) 0000000000100000 - 00000000dfffc000 (usable) (XEN) 00000000dfffc000 - 00000000e0000000 (ACPI data) (XEN) 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved) (XEN) 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved) (XEN) 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) (XEN) 0000000100000000 - 00000002c0000000 (usable) (XEN) Kdump: 128MB (131072kB) at 0x1000000 (XEN) System RAM: 10751MB (11009636kB) (XEN) Xen heap: 9MB (9740kB) (XEN) Domain heap initialised: DMA width 32 bits (XEN) PAE enabled, limit: 16 GB (XEN) Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic" (XEN) Using scheduler: SMP Credit Scheduler (credit) (XEN) Detected 701.650 MHz processor. (XEN) I/O virtualisation disabled (XEN) CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Cascades) stepping 04 (XEN) Platform timer overflows in 2 jiffies. (XEN) Platform timer is 1.193MHz PIT (XEN) Brought up 1 CPUs (XEN) xenoprof: Initialization failed. No APIC (XEN) *** LOADING DOMAIN 0 *** (XEN) elf_parse_binary: phdr: paddr=0xc0400000 memsz=0x28771c (XEN) elf_parse_binary: phdr: paddr=0xc0688000 memsz=0x164000 (XEN) elf_parse_binary: memory: 0xc0400000 -> 0xc07ec000 (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: GUEST_OS = "linux" (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: GUEST_VERSION = "2.6" (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: XEN_VERSION = "xen-3.0" (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: VIRT_BASE = 0xc0000000 (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: PADDR_OFFSET = 0xc0000000 (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: ENTRY = 0xc0400000 (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: HYPERCALL_PAGE = 0xc0401000 (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: FEATURES = "writable_page_tables|writable_descriptor_tables|auto_translated_physmap|pae_pgdir_above_4gb|supervisor_mode_kernel" (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: PAE_MODE = "yes" (XEN) elf_xen_parse_note: LOADER = "generic" (XEN) elf_xen_addr_calc_check: addresses: (XEN) virt_base = 0xc0000000 (XEN) elf_paddr_offset = 0xc0000000 (XEN) virt_offset = 0x0 (XEN) virt_kstart = 0xc0400000 (XEN) virt_kend = 0xc07ec000 (XEN) virt_entry = 0xc0400000 (XEN) Xen kernel: 32-bit, PAE, lsb (XEN) Dom0 kernel: 32-bit, PAE, lsb, paddr 0xc0400000 -> 0xc07ec000 (XEN) PHYSICAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT: (XEN) Dom0 alloc.: 000000003c000000->000000003e000000 (253952 pages to be allocated) (XEN) VIRTUAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT: (XEN) Loaded kernel: c0400000->c07ec000 (XEN) Init. ramdisk: c07ec000->c0efec00 (XEN) Phys-Mach map: c0eff000->c0fff000 (XEN) Start info: c0fff000->c0fff46c (XEN) Page tables: c1000000->c100f000 (XEN) Boot stack: c100f000->c1010000 (XEN) TOTAL: c0000000->c1400000 (XEN) ENTRY ADDRESS: c0400000 (XEN) Dom0 has maximum 1 VCPUs (XEN) elf_load_binary: phdr 0 at 0xc0400000 -> 0xc068771c (XEN) elf_load_binary: phdr 1 at 0xc0688000 -> 0xc0733cc4 (XEN) Initrd len 0x712c00, start at 0xc07ec000 (XEN) Scrubbing Free RAM: ...............................................................................................done. (XEN) Xen trace buffers: disabled (XEN) Std. Loglevel: Errors and warnings (XEN) Guest Loglevel: Nothing (Rate-limited: Errors and warnings) (XEN) Xen is relinquishing VGA console. (XEN) *** Serial input -> DOM0 (type \047CTRL-a\047 three times to switch input to Xen). (XEN) Freed 108kB init memory. ___________________________________________________________________ %packages @admin-tools @base @core @dns-server @development-libs @development-tools @dialup @editors @engineering-and-scientific @ftp-server @gnome-desktop @gnome-software-development @games @graphical-internet @graphics @java @java-development @kvm @legacy-network-server @mail-server @mysql @network-server @office @printing @ruby @server-cfg @sound-and-video @system-tools @text-internet @xen @web-server @smb-server @x-software-development @base-x system-config-kickstart system-config-netboot system-config-netboot-cmd keyutils dmraid-events-logwatch kexec-tools gpart iscsi-initiator-utils trousers bridge-utils authd fipscheck hardlink x86info device-mapper-multipath hfsutils perl-XML-SAX perl-XML-Twig perl-XML-Dumper perl-TimeDate perl-libxml-perl perl-Convert-ASN1 perl-XML-NamespaceSupport perl-DateManip perl-Crypt-SSLeay perl-Mozilla-LDAP perl-LDAP perl-XML-Grove python-imaging perl-Archive-Zip pexpect imake gcc-objc expect java-1.6.0-openjdk nasm statserial xferstats libsane-hpaio libvirt-cim Virtualization-en-US libcmpiutil telnet-server rsh-server tftp-server mailman postfix squirrelmail cyrus-imapd mod_auth_mysql mysql-devel mysql-bench php-mysql openldap-servers vnc-server freeradius system-config-bind system-config-boot rdesktop lsscsi uucp festival tsclient x3270 lslk nmap-frontend wireshark-gnome audit mrtg net-snmp-utils sysstat gnome-nettool iptraf vlock dstat Virtualization-en-US php-odbc mod_nss mod_auth_mysql mod_authz_ldap php-mysql xorg-x11-xbitmaps openmotif-devel mesa-libGLU-devel libXp-devel xorg-x11-resutils xorg-x11-xsm xorg-x11-server-Xnest xorg-x11-xfs-utils xorg-x11-server-Xvfb -spamassassin ___________________________________________________________________ -- Bryan A. Ignatow bryan(a)ignatow.org

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