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Re: [Xen-users] Full Virtualised DomU Hang on Boot


Hi,

we had same problem with domU HVM RHEL 3 U4 32bit, dom0 RHEL 5 U4 x86_64 - out of box virtualization installation, Dell server Nehalem X5550.

I haven't enouhg time to solve it completely,
but for me, it was sufficient, that NON SMP kernel booted without problem and is running without problems since September 2009.

Regards

Karel



peter.chiu@xxxxxxxxxx napsal(a):

Hello All,

I am trying to make a currently running Red Hat Enterprise AS3 32-bit system as a guest OS to an OpenSuse 11.2(86-64) Dom0.

When the guest os is started up, from the vncviewer :5900 display, it gets as far as

Booting ‘Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.4.21-57-Elsmp)’

root (hd0,1)

Fileysystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-57.ELsmp ro root=/dev/sda2

[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x14d31e]

initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.21-57.ELsmp.img

and then it goes no further.

It does not crash or reports errors, just not going any further.

I have looked around in the xen-users archive, but don’t think there is a similar problem reported.

I would appreciate for advice from anyone on this.

Below are the details.

Dom0: DELL 710 Server, OpenSuse 11.2 (86-64) with kernel 2.6.31.8-0.1-xen, xen 3.4.1_19718_04-2.1.x86_64.

2 x E5540 Intel Xeon Quadcore, 48GB RAM. – hostname apricot

DomU: RH EL AS3 (32-bit) kernel 2.4.21-57.ELsmp

2 x Intel Xeon 2.4GHz, 2GB RAM, OS disk 146GB, root on /dev/sda2 10GB partition.

hostname ignis

Guest Image prepared by dd if=/dev/sda | ssh apricot “dd of=/disks/apricot1/xen/ignis”

# file /disks/apricot1/xen/ignis

/disks/apricot1/xen/ignis: x86 boot sector; GRand Unified Bootloader, stage1 version 0x3, boot drive 0x80, 1st sector stage2 0x201425a, GRUB version n.m;

partition 1: ID=0x83, active, starthead 1, startsector 63, 24579387 sectors; partition 2: ID=0x83, starthead 254, startsector 24579450, 20482875 sectors;

partition 3: ID=0x82, starthead 254, startsector 45062325, 4096575 sectors; partition 4: ID=0xf, starthead 254, startsector 49158900, 236958750 sectors, code offset 0x48

Configuration file: /etc/xen/vm/ignis

name="ignis"

uuid="94259271-5e1f-2058-66c7-f91df8fb4f28"

memory=2048

maxmem=4096

vcpus=1

on_poweroff="destroy"

on_reboot="restart"

on_crash="destroy"

localtime=0

builder="hvm"

extid=0

device_model="/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm"

kernel="/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"

boot="c"

disk=[ 'file:/disks/apricot1/xen/ignis,hda,w', ]

vif=[ 'bridge=br0,model=rtl8139', ]

stdvga=0

vnc=1

vncunused=1

apic=1

acpi=1

pae=1

serial="pty"

Many thanks in advance.

Peter Chiu


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