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RE: [Xen-devel] dom0 reboots (reproducably) when installing rpms in domU

To: "Marcus Hardt" <marcus.hardt@xxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] dom0 reboots (reproducably) when installing rpms in domU
From: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:04:13 +0100
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> I'm using 2.6.10-xen0 on debian with 2.4.29-xenU and 
> scientific linux. When 
> installing a large RPM on the sci-linux, the dom0 reboots 
> reproducably. No 
> log info found in /var/log/[syslog|dmesg|messages].

Run the dom0 in text mode, and see if you get an oops message.
 
> My guest filesystem in inside a file which is nfsmounted.

Using a loopback file over NFS is a bad idea -- you're likely to find
the oom killer getting ivoked if you hit the disk hard with writes. This
is a standard Linux issue and is trivially reproduceable on native.

GNBD or iSCSI are much better options.

> Is it stupid to use 2.4 on 2.6?

Its not widely tested, but should work.

Ian

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