On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 07:50:23AM -0600, Ken Cobler wrote:
> Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 03:32:49PM -0600, Ken Cobler wrote:
>
>
> Hello.
>
> I have an odd problem, but, easy to replicate.
>
> Xen 3.4 + GPLPV + Windows 2003 guest. I've tried this on both
> 0.10.0.138 and 0.10.0.142 drivers.
>
> If the hard drive is an image file (loaded and set in the xen config
> file), Windows 2003 guest boots and runs great with the GPLPV drivers.
>
> If the hard drive is a physical drive or partition, Windows 2003 guest
> boots and runs fine with the QEMU drivers.
>
> If the hard drive is a physical drive or partition, Windows 2003 guest
> boots and runs with the GPLPV drivers for about 3-5 minutes. At the
> time, the entire machine locks up and I have to power cycle machine to
> recover (no mouse, or keyboard response).
>
> I even took the crashed Windows 2003 partition, dd copied to a file,
> setup xen to point to the image file instead of phy device. The Windows
> 2003 guest came up with the GPLPV drivers and ran great.
>
> Is there something else that I am not doing correct to get the Windows
> 2003 guest to run stable with the GPLPV drivers on a physical partition?
>
>
>
> - What's your Xen version? What's your dom0 kernel version?
> - For the image file, did you use file: or tap:aio: ?
> - For the physical partition, did you use phy: ?
>
> And also please paste the whole /etc/xen/<guest> cfgfile.
>
>
>
> Xen version from xm dmesg:
>
> (XEN) Xen version 3.4.1_19718_04-2.1 (abuild@) (gcc version 4.4.1
> [gcc-4_4-branch revision
> 150839] (SUSE Linux) ) Tue Oct 27 16:31:01 UTC 2009
>
> OpenSuse 11.2 dmesg out:
>
> [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.31.5-0.1-xen (geeko@buildhost) (gcc
> version 4.4.1 [gcc-4_
> 4-branch revision 150839] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP 2009-10-26 15:49:03 +0100
>
> For the image file used file directive:
> disk=[ '[1]file:/var/lib/xen/images/windows2003/windows2003.img,hda,w',
> 'phy:/dev/sr0,hdc:cdrom,r', ]
>
> Here is the windows2003 (physical partition) xen config fie:
>
> name="windows2003"
> uuid="d86fa089-97ca-e30a-ab13-b6a7f65adcfc"
> memory=1024
> maxmem=1024
> vcpus=1
> on_poweroff="destroy"
> on_reboot="restart"
> on_crash="destroy"
> localtime=1
> keymap="en-us"
>
> builder="hvm"
> extid=0
> device_model="/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm"
> kernel="/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
> boot="c"
> disk=[ 'phy:/dev/sda3,hda,w', 'phy:/dev/sr0,hdc:cdrom,r', ]
> vif=[ 'bridge=br0,model=rtl8139', ]
>
> stdvga=0
> vnc=1
> vncunused=1
> apic=1
> acpi=1
> pae=1
>
> usb=1
> usbdevice='tablet'
>
> serial="pty"
>
> Thanks. Ken Cobler
>
OpenSUSE 2.6.31 Xen kernel is known to have problems/bugs causing dom0
kernel crashes.
Could you try earlier (2.6.29 or 2.6.27) dom0 kernel?
-- Pasi
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