Roy Firestein wrote: > On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 13:54 +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 05:30:21PM -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > Tim Verhoeven wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Nathan Grennan > > > > <centos at cygnusx-1.org> wrote: > > > > > I have a CentOS 5.1 dom0 running on a machine with two cores and 4gb > > > > > of memory. It runs three 4.6 domUs and one 5.1 domU. Just out of the > > > > > blue the other night all the 4.6 domUs crashed, but the dom0 stayed up. > > > > > I ran xm console (domU-name) and got the Oops information below. I > > > > > didn't get anything from the 5.1 domU. I think it had been rebooted a > > > > > few days before and hadn't come up because of a initrd issue. > > > > > > > > > > First 4.6 domU: > > > > > > > > > > kernel BUG at arch/i386/mm/pgtable-xen.c:306! > > > > ...snip... > > > > > > > > Hi, I'm moving this thread to the CentOS-virt mailinglist (please > > > > remove the centos mailinglist to everyone replying to this mail) since > > > > it is more suited for these kind of questions. > > > > > > > > Question, If I read those crashes correctly your 4.6 domU is a 32 bit > > > > one ? What platform is your dom0 32 or 64 bit? Running a 32 bit domU > > > > on a 64 bit dom0 is currently not really stable. This is suppose to > > > > improve with 5.2 > > > > > > I agree with Tim. I have just about the same setup as you at > > > home, dual core, 4GB and I am running x86_64 with 32bit domUs > > > and the only way I was able to get them to run reliably was > > > using the Xen 3.2 from xen.org. > > > > > > I hope 5.2 finally moves completely over to 3.2 with all it's > > > features instead of this Frankenstein version it has where it > > > glues the Xen 3.0.3 user land tools onto a highly patched 3.1 > > > hypervisor forcing the user to try and use their swiss army > > > knife libvirt to manage the mess. Ugh! I just want Xen and > > > to manage it through Xen! > > > > > > > el 5.2 will be based on xen 3.1.2 _hypervisor_ at least that's what > > upstream says in the release notes.. > > > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-list/2008-March/msg00111.html > > > > "+ Xen hypervisor rebase to 3.1.2" > > > > package list / changes: > > > > xen: 3.0.3-41.el5 -> 3.0.3-55.el5 > > > > So yeah.. :) > > Any idea how the upgrade from 5.1 to 5.2 affect current > production boxes running stock Xen? You still have a ways off, but when it does happen, given upstreams plan the new version of Xen will be a drop-in replacement that will not affect your Xen setup. -Ross ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof.