Hi Everyone,
I installed a fully virtualized VM on my system noted below. To keep it simple I made it puppy linux. It runs as expected, including successful reboots. So it appears that reboots are broken on my system for paravirtualized systems. I seem to recall the test install of windows I did about a month ago seemed to work also as it was likewise fully virtualized.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Robert Moser
From: centos-virt-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-virt-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Robert E. Moser Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 5:05 PM To: centos-virt@centos.org Subject: [CentOS-virt] domU reboot leaves VM crashing continually
Greetings,
Im new to xen virtualization on CentOS, but I have been unable to find the answer to this problem Im experiencing.
My setup: AMD quad core (64bit), 8Gb ram. CentOS 5.3 dom0, CentOS 5.3 domUs (paravirtualized).
Dom0 is set up with two NICs, the built-in and a PCI card, and I set up xen bridging on both interfaces.
My domUs seem to boot up fine, run fine, and shutdown fine. However, if I attempt a reboot operation, they go into a state where they continually crash on startup. I have been unable to ascertain why this happens, and I do not know how to fix it when it does happen. So, my question is twofold:
1) How do I get it out of the continual boot/crash cycle? Xm destroy doesnt work, none of the GUI tools work. So far the only answer has been rebooting dom0, which is not a good answer L
2) Has anyone else seen this/solved this? Besides being able to manually fix it from #1 above, it sure would be nice to have it able to reboot as expected.
I havent worked with any fully virtualized guests yet, but I will try that pretty soon and see if it evidences the same behavior.
Uname a è Linux prathis.localdomain 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5xen #1 SMP Mon Aug 24 09:14:33 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Please let me know what additional information would be helpful or what I can do to facilitate debugging this issue.
Thanks!