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Re: [Xen-users] 2.6.31 xenified kernel - not ready for production

To: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] 2.6.31 xenified kernel - not ready for production
From: Andrew Lyon <andrew.lyon@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 18:20:01 +0000
Cc: Peter Braun <xenware@xxxxxxxxx>, Xen List <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 08:40:43PM +0100, Peter Braun wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just want to know if somebody use 2.6.31.4 xenified kernel (aka
>> OpenSUSE) in production?
>>
>> We have been testing it on new Nehalem Xeon server for few weeks w/o
>> any problem.
>> But as soon we tried it on production machine - after several
>> production domUs started - hard OS failure.
>> We had to switch back to 2.6.18.8 - xen stock kernel.
>>
>
> What kind of failure?
>
> I hope you have a serial console set up so you can capture the (possible)
> BUG/OOPS/stacktrace or just the error messages..
>
> -- Pasi
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Yes I've had problems with 2.6.31 crashing with null pointer
dereference, I am going to install opensuse 11.2 next week and see if
I can replicate the problem using the opensuse kernel so that I can
get some help from Jan to fix it.

Andy

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