[CentOS] FYI: centos 5.4 and xen not working

Sat Oct 24 17:45:58 UTC 2009
Alan Sparks <asparks at doublesparks.net>

Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On 10/24/2009 07:43 AM, Farkas Levente wrote:
>   
>> i just let you know that xen not working properly in centos 5.4 there
>> are upstream fix for this, but for those who use xen it's better to wait
>> until centos release updates for 5.4 otherwise xen's domU won't start.
>>    
>>     
>
> I think I saw the issue you're referring to.  Does it affect 5.4 domU in 
> older dom0's?  I updated a VM and its host yesterday.  The domU didn't 
> start until I'd finished the upgrade on dom0.
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Are you thinking of RHSA-2009:1472-1?  Comparison point, upgraded
several domU's on a box to 5.4 and halted/created them with no boot
issue.  Upgraded the dom0 later to 5.4 and also had no restart
problems.  So I have a couple of dom0's running a mix of 5.3 and 5.4
domU's (x86_64 and i386) with no problems.  The bug report does say,
"domU sometimes fails to reboot," so looks to be a circumstantial issue,
not a definite one.
-Alan