[CentOS-virt] allocating pci resources starting at a8000000 (gap: a0000000:5ec00000)

Sun Jun 6 11:58:15 UTC 2010
Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi>

On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 05:27:42PM +0300, MtK - 012 wrote:
>    Hello,
> 
>    I've installed XEN according to this tutorial:
>    [1]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: [2]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.
> 

Do you have the latest BIOS/firmware versions installed? 

Also you could try installing without selecting the "Virtualization" option during centos installation.. does it boot then (on baremetal without Xen) ?

-- Pasi

> 
> 
>    Regards,
> 
>    MtK
> 
> 
> 
> References
> 
>    Visible links
>    1. http://www.howtoforge.com/paravirtualization-with-xen-on-centos-5.4-x86_64
>    2. http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=27236

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