[CentOS-virt] Problems with scsi-target-utils when hosted on dom0 centos 7 xen box

Mon Apr 18 16:19:55 UTC 2016
Nathan Coulson <nathan at bravenet.com>

On 2016-04-14 07:44 AM, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 1:18 AM, Nathan Coulson <nathan at bravenet.com> wrote:
>> On 2016-04-12 09:43 AM, Nathan Coulson wrote:
>>> By natively, I take it using
>>> kernel /vmlinuz (vs kernel /xen)
>>>
>>> Not yet, but working on setting up such an environment.
>>>
>>> (At this time, I was using virt-install to reproduce the problem, and the
>>> original server we are testing on did not support kvm but the 2nd server
>>> does).
>>>
>>> On 2016-04-12 03:26 AM, George Dunlap wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:14 PM, Nathan Coulson <nathan at bravenet.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Hello
>>>>>
>>>>> We were attempting to use scsi-target-utils, hosted on a xen dom0 vm
>>>>> using
>>>>> localhost, and running into some problems.  I was not able to reproduce
>>>>> this
>>>>> on a centos 7.2 server using the default kernel.
>>>> Have you tried booting the Virt SIG kernel natively and seeing if you
>>>> can reproduce the problem at all?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>    -George
>>
>>
>> (Apologies for the earlier top post)
>>
>> Running the kernel natively, on 3.10 or 3.18 (kernel from virt sig)
>> * CentOS Linux (3.18.25-19.el7.x86_64) 7 (Core))
>> * CentOS Linux (3.10.0-327.13.1.el7.x86_64) 7 (Core)
>>
>> It works as expected with no issues.
>>
>>
>>
>> But when booting as dom0 using the xen hypervisor
>> * CentOS Linux, with Xen hypervisor
>>
>> tested with dom0_mem=2048M,max:2048M (as well as 1024M)
>>
>> the problems occur as I have describe.
> Thanks Nathan.  It looks then like this may be an issue with upstream
> Xen, then.  Would you be willing to re-post this bug report (with the
> information that it works running the same kernel on native) to
> xen-users?  I can make sure it's seen by the appropriate kernel-side
> developers if necessary.
>
> Thanks,
>   -George

Thank you George, I have sent a revised copy to them as well
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-users/2016-04/msg00058.html

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Nathan Coulson
System Administrator for Bravenet
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nathan at bravenet.com