[CentOS-virt] xen-c6 fails to boot

Wed Dec 3 10:45:09 UTC 2014
George Dunlap <dunlapg at umich.edu>

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Bob Ball <bob.ball at citrix.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Johnny Hughes
>> On 12/01/2014 04:48 AM, Bob Ball wrote:
>> >
>> >  [<ffffffff81575480>] panic+0xc4/0x1e1
>> >  [<ffffffff81054836>] find_new_reaper+0x176/0x180
>> >  [<ffffffff81055345>] forget_original_parent+0x45/0x2c0
>> >  [<ffffffff81107214>] ? task_function_call+0x44/0x50
>> >  [<ffffffff810555d7>] exit_notify+0x17/0x140
>> >  [<ffffffff81057053>] do_exit+0x1f3/0x450
>> >  [<ffffffff81057305>] do_group_exit+0x55/0xd0
>> >  [<ffffffff81057397>] sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20
>> >  [<ffffffff815806a9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
>>
>> It works fine for me .. you might consider using CentOS-6.6 and not
>> CentOS-6.4 .. also, we now use a 3.10 kernel and the latest version of
>> xen is 4.2.5 in the /6.6/xen4/ repo.
>
> Updated to CentOS-6.6, but I still get the same issue.
>
> By the above I assume you're using the xen4 repo rather than the xen-c6 repository referred to by http://wiki.centos.org/QaWiki/Xen4?
> Is the xen-c6 repo now considered broken or deprecated with the xen4 repo used in preference?

Yes, the top of that page says:

"This is a development release, only meant for testing purposes. We do
not recommend anyone deploy production systems using the content
mentioned here. "

The wiki page Johnny pointed you to is the officially supported Xen 4
CentOS binary now.

We should probably delete that wiki page -- thanks for finding it. :-)

 -George