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Re: [Xen-users] Kernel BUG at drivers/xen/netfront/netfront.c:783

To: Danilo Godec <danilo.godec@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Kernel BUG at drivers/xen/netfront/netfront.c:783
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:41:53 +0300
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On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 02:19:34PM +0200, Danilo Godec wrote:
> Pasi Kärkkäinen pravi:
> >
> > Sounds like a bug in SLES10 domU kernel..
> >
> > 1) Are you running RHEL 5.3 on the host? 
> >   
> Dom0 is Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga). Xen that
> comes with it is 3.0.3 ...
> 

Actually RHEL5.3 has Xen hypervisor 3.1.2 + a lot of patches from redhat.

You can see that with "xm info".

The userspace Xen tools/utilities in RHEL5 are 3.0.3 (to keep the ABI/API 
stable in RHEL5 releases).

> > 2) Did you install SLES10 SP2 on the guest? 
> >   
> Yes, the DomU guest is SLES10 SP2. This one comes with Xen 3.2.0 (I
> guess the 'kernel part' of Xen has the same version).
> 

OK. You could maybe try SLES10 SP1 then? :)

> I'm also running one OpenSuSE 10.3 DomU - it has Xen 3.1.0. This one
> works well for over a year now.
> 

OK.

> > Both have a lot of bugfixes over the .0 releases.
> >   
> 
> I guess I could update Dom0 (RHEL) as there are some recent updates that
> haven't been applied.
> 

Or then you could try the latest Xen and dom0 kernel packages from RHEL 5.4 
beta, 
there have been many updates/fixes..

-- Pasi

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