Hello All.
I've just started looking into Xen and have a test environment in place. I'm seeing an annoying problem that I thought worthy of a post.
Config:
I have 2 x HP DL585 servers each with 4 Dual core Opterons (non-vmx) and 16GB RAM configured as Xen servers. These run CentOS 5.1 with the latest updates applied. These system both attach to an iSCSI target which is an HP DL385 running ietd and serving SAN based storage.
I have a test VM running CentOS 5.1 also updated.
Problem:
If I run the VM on a single server everything is OK. If I do a migrate of the VM to the other server I start getting random "BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#?" messages on the VM console. The messages seem to happen with IO but not every time. A reboot of the VM on the new server will stop these messages.
I've also left the VM running overnight a couple of times and when I do I find that any external sessions (ssh) are hung in the morning but the console session is not. New ssh sessions can be started and seem to work.
After much googling it looks like the kernel messages can occur if dom0 is very busy but mine is not.
Any suggestions?
Regards
Brett Worth