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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] RE: Has anyone seen this before? vcpus > 1 panics D

To: Kayvan Sylvan <kayvan@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] RE: Has anyone seen this before? vcpus > 1 panics DomU kernel
From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:10:38 -0700
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   Very odd, I run 4-way HVM guests all the time.  The domain boots if
vcpus=1 is set in the config file?  You might try removing the quiet
option from the guest elilo to see if you get any informative boot
messages.

        Alex

On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 13:51 -0800, Kayvan Sylvan wrote:
> I am running xen-3.3-unstable and the latest guest firmware binary. 
> 
>  
> 
> Dom0 is running CentOS-4.6
> 
>  
> 
> From: Kayvan Sylvan 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 11:33 AM
> To: xen-ia64-devel
> Subject: Has anyone seen this before? vcpus > 1 panics DomU kernel
> 
> 
>  
> 
> I installed Fedora-8 for IA64 as a guest HVM in order to continue with
> some more benchmarking.
> 
>  
> 
> Everything was fine.
> 
>  
> 
> However, if I set the vcpus > 1, then I get the following when the
> machine is booting:
> 
>  
> 
> PCI: PIIX3: Enabling Passive Release on 0000:00:01.0
> 
> Red Hat nash version 6.0.19 starting
> 
> mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
> 
> setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
> 
> setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
> 
> setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
> 
> switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
> 
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> 
>  
> 
> The config file is as follows:
> 
>  
> 
> import os, re
> 
> arch_libdir = 'lib'
> 
> kernel = "/root/efi-vfirmware.hg/binaries/xenia64-gfw.bin"
> 
> builder='hvm'
> 
> memory = 2048
> 
> shadow_memory = 32
> 
> name = "F8"
> 
> vcpus=2
> 
> vif = [ 'type=ioemu, mac=00:76:2e:30:0d:11, bridge=xenbr0' ]
> 
> disk = [ 'phy:/dev/VolGroup00/F8,hda,w',
> 'file:/root/Xen/isos/Fedora-8-ia64-DVD.iso,hdc:cdrom,r' ]
> 
> device_model = '/usr/' + arch_libdir + '/xen/bin/qemu-dm.debug'
> 
> sdl=0
> 
> vnc=1
> 
> vnclisten="0.0.0.0"
> 
> vncdisplay=89
> 
> vncpasswd='xxxxxx'
> 
> nographic=0
> 
> serial='pty'
> 
> monitor=1
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks for any clues you can give me.
> 
>  
> 
> ---Kayvan
> 
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Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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