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[Xen-users] VMX guests crash on HP DL320 G4 servers.

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Subject: [Xen-users] VMX guests crash on HP DL320 G4 servers.
From: Mark Ruijter <xendev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 21:53:28 +0200
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We have been testing recent versions of Xen on Fedora Core FC5 with various kernels.

During the first test we had the standard FC5 kernel / xen packages installed:
xen-3.0.1-4.x86_64.rpm / kernel-xen0-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.x86_64.rpm
This setup crashes with modified guests doing live migration and also crash with unmodified guests.

The version that we're currently using is:
 xen-3.0.2-4.x86_64.rpm with kernel-xen0-2.6.16-1.2202_FC6.x86_64.rpm
I have also tried building xen from the unstable tree with the same result.

The hardware used is a HP DL320 G4 and modified guests are running fine on it.
Below is de qemu logging of an attempt to start Windows XP.

Start BIOS ...
Starting emulated 16-bit real-mode: ip=F000:FFF0
 rombios.c,v 1.138 2005/05/07 15:55:26 vruppert Exp $
Remapping master: ICW2 0x8 -> 0x20
Remapping slave: ICW2 0x70 -> 0x28
VGABios $Id: vgabios.c,v 1.61 2005/05/24 16:50:50 vruppert Exp $
HVMAssist BIOS, 1 cpu, $Revision: 1.138 $ $Date: 2005/05/07 15:55:26 $

ata0-0: PCHS=16383/16/63 translation=lba LCHS=1024/255/63
ata0 master: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-2 Hard-Disk (10783 MBytes)
ata0  slave: Unknown device
ata1 master: QEMU CD-ROM ATAPI-4 CD-Rom/DVD-Rom
ata1  slave: Unknown device

Booting from CD-Rom...
unsupported PCI BIOS function 0x0E
int13_harddisk: function 15, unmapped device for ELDL=81


It makes no difference if the guest OS is redhat or Windows XP.
Windows XP will boot until it has loaded mud.sys, redhat crashes on running anaconda.
When booting XP from the installation media it will run until it displays "Starting Windows".
After that it will freeze.

Listed below is the configuration file that I use:
kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
builder='hvm'
memory = 512
name = "winxp"
vcpus=1
pae=0
acpi=0
apic=0
vif = [ 'type=ioemu,bridge=xenbr0,mac=00:15:3e:63:73:f2' ]
disk = [ 'phy:/dev/sdb,ioemu:hda,w' ]
device_model = '/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
cdrom='/images/en_winxp_pro_with_sp2.iso'
boot='d'
sdl=0
vnc=1
vncviewer=0
stdvga=0
ne2000=0


Is there a patch or fix around somewhere that I can try?

Thanks in advance,

Mark Ruijter.


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