[CentOS-virt] Strange problem with guest having more than 3 virtual interfaces.

Sun Oct 2 16:13:44 UTC 2011
Veli-Pekka Kestilä <centos at vpk.nu>

Hi,

I have 6 DomU's with 4-virtual interfaces and 1 DomU with only one. When 
starting the DomU's in order where the domain with only one interface is 
started last it refuses to start with following error. If I start it 
first there is no problem starting them all.

---Error---
[2011-10-02 18:37:33 xend.XendDomainInfo 6728] DEBUG 
(XendDomainInfo:1335) XendDomainInfo.handleShutdownWatch
[2011-10-02 18:37:33 xend 6728] DEBUG (DevController:179) Waiting for 
devices vif.
[2011-10-02 18:37:33 xend 6728] DEBUG (DevController:184) Waiting for 0.
[2011-10-02 18:37:33 xend 6728] DEBUG (DevController:571) 
hotplugStatusCallback /local/domain/0/backend/vif/8/0/hotplug-status.
[2011-10-02 18:39:13 xend 6728] DEBUG (DevController:94) Lock released
[2011-10-02 18:39:13 xend 6728] DEBUG (DevController:96) Lock not 
acquired, cannot release
[2011-10-02 18:39:13 xend 6728] ERROR (SrvBase:88) Request 
wait_for_devices failed.
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/web/SrvBase.py", line 
85, in perform
     return op_method(op, req)
   File 
"/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/server/SrvDomain.py", line 
72, in op_wait_for_devices
     return self.dom.waitForDevices()
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", 
line 2583, in waitForDevices
     self.waitForDevices_(c)
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", 
line 1563, in waitForDevices_
     return self.getDeviceController(deviceClass).waitForDevices()
   File 
"/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/server/DevController.py", 
line 181, in waitForDevices
     return map(self.waitForDevice, self.deviceIDs())
   File 
"/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/server/DevController.py", 
line 192, in waitForDevice
     raise VmError("Device %s (%s) could not be connected. "
VmError: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts not working.
[2011-10-02 18:39:13 xend.XendDomainInfo 6728] DEBUG 
(XendDomainInfo:2387) XendDomainInfo.destroy: domid=8
[2011-10-02 18:39:13 xend 6728] DEBUG (DevController:94) Lock released
[2011-10-02 18:39:13 xend 6728] DEBUG (DevController:94) Lock released
[2011-10-02 18:39:13 xend.XendDomainInfo 6728] INFO 
(XendDomainInfo:2528) Dev 51712 still active, looping...
[2011-10-02 18:39:14 xend.XendDomainInfo 6728] INFO 
(XendDomainInfo:2528) Dev 51712 still active, looping...
[2011-10-02 18:39:14 xend.XendDomainInfo 6728] INFO 
(XendDomainInfo:2528) Dev 51712 still active, looping...
---Error---

Greetings,
Veli-Pekka Kestilä