>>>>> On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:43:57 +0300 >>>>> "PK" == Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi> wrote: PK> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 06:04:06PM +0200, Bernhard Gschaider PK> wrote: >> >>>>> On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:47:07 +0200 >> >>>>> "BG" == Bernhard Gschaider <bgschaid_lists at ice-sf.at> wrote: >> BG> Thanks to everyone who took the time to answer in this thread. >> BG> I'm just writing this message to give this thread some closure BG> and am not expecting any answers >> I found the cause of my problem. I'll answer to my own posting, >> because none of the follow-ups lead to the solution, the reason >> being that I withheld some vital information for the diagnosis: >> >> The filesystem which the disk-image for the virtual machine >> resides on is XFS! >> >> Googling around I found indications that there are indications >> that XEN and XFS are not the best of friends, but nobody hinted >> at something as drastic as completely freezing the host. >> >> Anyway. When I create the image on an ext3-partition and point >> the configuration to it (no other changes) the installation >> works without problems. >> PK> Are you running 32bit or 64bit Xen host/dom0? PK> XFS is known to have problems on 32bit kernels, while it PK> should work on 64bit kernels. (this is even without Xen). Everything is 64 bit. So that can't be the explanation. PK> -- Pasi >> Bernhard >> >> PS: There were speculations in the replies, that this was my >> first Xen-experience. I want to stress that I have already a >> running Xen-machine, that's why I was surprised that it didn't >> work this time (but I set that one up a year ago, so >> technically I am starting anew with Xen and the speculations >> are right) >> >> >>>>> On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:29:33 -0700 (PDT) >> >>>>> "IM" == Ian Murray <murrayie at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> >> >>> > This (and other replies) lead me to two possible >> culprits: > >>> - either the graphical console over X11 is not >> a good idea >>> (but I > can't imagine that, it shouldn't shoot >> the kernel) > >>> - I always installed as a paravirtualized >> machine, Could it be >>> that > the install-kernel on the >> 5.3-media is not aware of >>> this and somehow > manages to >> shot the host (because I noticed >>> that most recipies on > >> the > net, including >>> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/ > >> InstallingCentOSDomU > >>> never talk about paravirtualized (so >> I assume they use a fully >>> > virtualized guest) >> >>> > >> >>> > I will try these later today (when people left the office >> >>> and no one > will complain about server downtimes) >> >>> > >> >>> > Bernhard >> >>> > >> >>> > BTW: Just one fundamental question: as the upstream OS >> >>> vendor is > switching his virtualization to KVM anyway, is >> it >>> a good idea to > forget Xen and use KVM (in other words: >> is it >>> stable enough for > production)? >> BG> I tried removing both suspects by >> BG> - following the Wiki-Howto to the letter (especially using the BG> Xen-install-kernels) - instead of going over the network I BG> worked directly at the machine (although I totally agree that BG> a VNC-session shouldn't be ble to shoot the machine) >> BG> but the problem is still there. When I start the configured BG> machine that points to an install-kernel with >> BG> xm create newGuest -c >> BG> I see the kernel boot up until it comes to the message >> BG> Write protecting the kernel read-only data >> BG> where it hangs for some seconds, then the screen goes blank BG> and the machine reboots. >> BG> I'm starting to suspect that it is somehow hardware-related BG> (it is a Fujitsu-Siemens Synergy server with a BG> RAID-controller) and I will investigate in that direction >> >> >> -- >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> DI Bernhard F.W. 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