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Re: [Xen-devel] hvm-start reproducibly crashes xen in unstable

To: Patrick Scharrenberg <pittipatti@xxxxxx>, xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] hvm-start reproducibly crashes xen in unstable
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:53:54 +0100
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On 6/4/07 12:36, "Patrick Scharrenberg" <pittipatti@xxxxxx> wrote:

> I get a page_alloc-Panic crashing xen (see backtrace) in latest unstable
> on an amd64.
> 
> The System has 1gb minus 32mb shared-video-ram.
> 
> The problem is reproducible on my machine doing the following two steps
> simple steps:
> 
>     1. create domain with 64mb memory
>     2. create hvm-domain (256mb)

The HVM creation is failing due to lack of memory (somehow xend's auto
balloon code has got confused I expect). Then you crash in the creation
failure path. That's easily fixed.

 -- Keir



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