[CentOS] guest vms crash host systems

[Brian Mathis]

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Negative <negativebinomial at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:41 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>
>> Brian Mathis wrote:
>> > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Negative <negativebinomial at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> I built guest vm's one for Windows 7 and one for Windows XP using the
>> >> virtual machine manager on a  just updated to centos 5.7, and they are
>> >> both crashing the host machine. They run only  for a few minutes, but
>> >> suddenly freeze, crashing the host. Â There is no networking. No X. No
>> >> way to drop out of X. The only way out is a hard reboot. I don't see
>> >> anything in the logs -- messages or libvirt logs -- immediately before
>> >> the crash.
>> <snip>
>> > Is this new hardware?  Have you run any hardware burn testing (CPU,
>> > RAM, etc...) and/or memtest86+ on the RAM?  This sounds like a
>> > hardware issue to me.
>
> It's about three years old. I had one hardware issue a year ago in which a
> video card fried, but it's been great. I will run memtest this afternoon.
>
>> I agree with Brian - it may be coincidental that you built the VMs, and
>> then it started crashing.
>>
> I should run memtest. I don't know of a tool to check the processors. I use
> the machine for analyzing data, and often use most of the 32 gigs of memory
> in it, but I doubt I've ever seriously stressed the processors.
>
> I created the two guests with the gui, but since they crash, I started one
> without starting X on the host, using virsh. The guest and host both stay
> up. When starting using  virsh with the --console switch I get what looks
> like a telnet connection. But I know almost nothing about Windows and don't
> know what to look at. Networking between the guest and host might be borked
> -- and that would've been my fault. Then, every time X is running the guest
> and host crash.
>>
>> One other question: is selinux enabled?
>>
>
> Yes. No warnings, though.
>>
>>        mark


It should not matter what the guest is, so Windows or Linux it
shouldn't be crashing.  If not hardware, it points to a bug in the
hypervisor software.


-☙ Brian Mathis ❧-