Felix Schwarz
2007-Jan-07 12:34 UTC
[Fedora-xen] HVM guest does not start anymore (dma_timer_expiry)
Hi, I''m using Xen on a FC6 (x86_64) system (Dell E521, AMD X2 4200 with Pacifica-Support) with a number of different guest systems (paravirtualized as well as fully virtualized ones). One of these is a FC6 (i386), running in HVM mode (because AFAIK x86_64 Xen does not support i386 paravirtualized guests). Everything worked fine so far. Today, I did a yum update in the guest machine, loading the updates of the last 2-3 weeks. This was okay to. Unfortunately, the guest won''t start anymore. I''m getting these boot messages (manually typed in here, typing errors may be present): ... no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults Switching to new root and running init. unmounting old /dev unmounting old /proc unmounting old /sys ... wait for some time ... hda: DMA interrupt recovery hda: lost interrupt hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24 (again and again) My host system is fully patched as as of 01/06/2007 and so is the guest system. As a special exception, I am running kernel version 2.6.18-1.2857.4.2.fc6.0.2.sctxen on the host system in order to get my Broadcom network chipset working. I can boot the guest just fine using qemu from Fedora Extras. Other HVM guests (such as FC5 i386) are booting just fine. Any ideas? fs