Pkg xen devel - Nov 2017 - Bug#882806: xen-hypervisor-4.8-amd64: After upgrade to stretch all Windows VM crash on boot or hang on boot

Package: src:xen
Version: 4.8.1-1+deb9u3
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

This problem is CPU  E5420 and Xem hypervisor related. The same Windows VM
boot on another Xen 4.6 on another machine. And also boot on Xen 4.8 on
another machine. On this machine with Debian Jessie works without problem.
After dist-upgrade all Win VMs stop working. I test fresh install but
nothing helps.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.2
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=cs_CZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

xen-hypervisor-4.8-amd64 depends on no packages.

Versions of packages xen-hypervisor-4.8-amd64 recommends:
ii  xen-utils-4.8  4.8.1-1+deb9u3

xen-hypervisor-4.8-amd64 suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

severity 882806 normal
tags 882806 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi Dan,

Thanks for your report.

There's a small team of Debian package maintainers, and a huge amount of
different things you can do with Xen. While Xen allows running Windows
guests, the Debian maintainers do not have much experience with that,
and moreover, do not have the means to help reproducing the errors you see.

I hope you have found out more about your issue in the meantime. If so,
please let us know.

The upstream Xen documentation and wiki has information about debugging
guest startup and collecting information.

You could also try your luck on the upstream xen-users mailing list [0].
However, this would also require more detailed information instead of
only "It doesn't work"-style information in order to enable others
to
help you.

Good luck,
Hans van Kranenburg

[0] https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-users

Processing commands for control at bugs.debian.org:
> severity 882806 normal
Bug #882806 [src:xen] xen-hypervisor-4.8-amd64: After upgrade to stretch all
Windows VM crash on boot or hang on boot
Severity set to 'normal' from 'critical'
> tags 882806 + moreinfo
Bug #882806 [src:xen] xen-hypervisor-4.8-amd64: After upgrade to stretch all
Windows VM crash on boot or hang on boot
Added tag(s) moreinfo.
> thanks
Stopping processing here.

Please contact me if you need assistance.
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Hi Hans,
Thank you for your advice. I understand what you mean. I hope that somebody have
the same problem.
But I didn't found anybody. Please close this bug.

     Regards
                     Dan

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