[Xen-users] "maxmem" without "memory" in hvm-domU-config causes dom0 to reboot

["Ronney Meier Rorotec GmbH" <rm.meier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm using xen with several domUs.
I accidentally removed the "memory" parameter from one of my hvm domU
configs and only the maxmem parameter stayed left. Then I had to notice
that as soon as the domU gets created dom0 reboots directly (about 1-2
seconds after "xm create <domUname>"), without showing a kernel panic or
any other kind of message on the screen. It doesn't depend which os domU
needs to boot, I also tried it out with an empty image file. As soon as
I added the "memory" parameter again, everything worked fine again.
Otherwise my dom0 is working stable with about 3-8 domUs, so I don't
mind too much about this behaviour...
Anyway I don't know if this is a known (or unknown?) bug (I couldn't
find any information about it) or if there's something wrong with my
system, so I'm just asking here if anybody ever had similar problems..
I'm using Debian Squeeze with 
kernel version 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64,
xen version 4.0.1-2
Don't think that it should matter, but the domU images are stored on a
mdadm raid1 with drbd and lvm2 on top.

domU config:

#  -*- mode: python; -*-
kernel = "/usr/lib/xen-default/boot/hvmloader"
builder ='hvm'
# when commenting out the below memory parameter the system will restart
when creating domU
#memory = 6144
maxmem = 6144
shadow_memory = 8
name = "windows_sb"
vif = ['type=ioemu, bridge=br3']
acpi=1
apic=1

disk =
['file:/xendata/windows-sb-2011-64bit.img,xvda,w','file:/xendata/iso/win
dows-sb-std-2011-64bit.iso,xvdc:cdrom,r']
device_model = '/usr/lib/xen-default/bin/qemu-dm'
boot="dc"

localtime=1

sdl=0
vnc=1
vnclisten="0.0.0.0"
vncconsole=1
vncpasswd=':-P'
stdvga=0
serial='pty'
usbdevice='tablet'

on_poweroff = 'destroy'
on_reboot   = 'restart'
on_crash    = 'restart'

-----------------------

xm info:

host                   : xenmaster
release                : 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64
version                : #1 SMP Thu May 19 01:16:47 UTC 2011
machine                : x86_64
nr_cpus                : 4
nr_nodes               : 1
cores_per_socket       : 4
threads_per_core       : 1
cpu_mhz                : 1200
hw_caps                :
bfebfbff:2c100800:00000000:00001f40:029ee3ff:00000000:00000001:00000000
virt_caps              : hvm hvm_directio
total_memory           : 16320
free_memory            : 7861
node_to_cpu            : node0:0-3
node_to_memory         : node0:7861
node_to_dma32_mem      : node0:2173
max_node_id            : 0
xen_major              : 4
xen_minor              : 0
xen_extra              : .1
xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_64 xen-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_32
hvm-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_64
xen_scheduler          : credit
xen_pagesize           : 4096
platform_params        : virt_start=0xffff800000000000
xen_changeset          : unavailable
xen_commandline        : placeholder dom0_mem=512M dom0_max_vcpus=1
dom0_vcpus_pin
cc_compiler            : gcc version 4.4.5 (Debian 4.4.5-10)
cc_compile_by          : waldi
cc_compile_domain      : debian.org
cc_compile_date        : Wed Jan 12 14:04:06 UTC 2011
xend_config_format     : 4

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