Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 3.1 - Can't run Fedora Core 1 PV

[Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My current guess is that this is a kernel version issue. Have you tried
using your old (pre-3.1) domU kernel with the FC1 image on Xen 3.1?

 -- Keir

On 12/7/07 11:52, "Keir Fraser" <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is this using an up-to-date kernel image? I.e., we think the problem occurs
> when we hit the init task?
> 
>  -- Keir
> 
> On 12/7/07 11:46, "Nick Craig-Wood" <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> I can't run a Fedora Core 1 image PV - it SEGVs on start.  This is a
>> show stopper for me upgrading to xen 3.1 as we have quite a few FC1
>> images.
>> 
>> I've written a bug report here, but I'm not sure anyone ever looks at
>> bugzilla!
>> 
>>   http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=993
>> 
>> Here are the details...
>> 
>> Xen 3.1 runs most of my domUs just fine, windows etc, but it doesn't
>> run a Fedora Core 1 image.  It hangs at 100% cpu usage just after
>> "Freeing kernel memory".
>> 
>> If I mount the FC1 image on dom0 and chroot into it I get
>> 
>>   # chroot . /bin/bash
>>   Segmentation fault
>> 
>> I've put a small ext2 filing system here (built from a virgin FC1
>> image) which demonstrates the problem
>> 
>>   http://www.craig-wood.com/nick/pub/fedora_demo.gz
>> 
>> Mounting it and chrooting from dom0 under Xen 3.1 gives the SEGV.
>> Doing the same from Xen 3.0.3 , Xen 3.0.4 and Debian testing works
>> fine.
>> 
>> I've verified that the same thing happens on the binary download from
>> the xen web site (xen-3.1.0-install-x86_32p.tgz) dated June 1st so it
>> isn't just my dodgy compiling skills!
> 
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