achan@jonathan360.com
2007-Sep-06 15:20 UTC
[Fedora-xen] Xen paravirtualized guest freezes upon boot
Running xen 3 host and guest OS is FC6. the guest boots but freezes after starting sshd. Also it fails getting IP information for eth0. xend.log doesn''t really show anything wrong [2007-09-06 11:10:54 xend 9068] DEBUG (DevController:486) hotplugStatusCallback 1. [2007-09-06 11:10:54 xend 9068] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices irq. [2007-09-06 11:10:54 xend 9068] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices vkbd. [2007-09-06 11:10:54 xend 9068] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices vfb. [2007-09-06 11:10:54 xend 9068] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices pci. [2007-09-06 11:10:54 xend 9068] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices ioports. [2007-09-06 11:10:54 xend 9068] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices tap. [2007-09-06 11:10:54 xend 9068] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices vtpm. [2007-09-06 11:10:54 xend 9068] INFO (XendDomain:370) Domain fedora.fc6 (37) unpaused. [2007-09-06 11:14:23 xend.XendDomainInfo 9068] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:940) XendDomainInfo.handleShutdownWatch [2007-09-06 11:14:23 xend.XendDomainInfo 9068] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:940) XendDomainInfo.handleShutdownWatch [2007-09-06 11:14:34 xend.XendDomainInfo 9068] INFO (XendDomainInfo:899) Domain has shutdown: name=fedora.fc6 id=37 reason=poweroff. [2007-09-06 11:14:34 xend.XendDomainInfo 9068] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1463) XendDomainInfo.destroy: domid=37 [2007-09-06 11:14:34 xend.XendDomainInfo 9068] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1471) XendDomainInfo.destroyDomain(37) You can see where it locks up at 11:10:54 and doesn''t respond until it shut it down. when I mount the img I can see this error "Sep 6 11:12:19 fc6_pristine modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.3001.fc6xen/modules.dep: No such file or directory". my xend guest cfg is : kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xenU" memory = 256 name = "fedora.fc6" vif = [ '''' ] dhcp = "dhcp" disk = [''file:/usr/virtualServers/fedora.fc6.img,sda1,w'', ''file:/usr/virtualServers/fedora.swap,sda2,w''] root = "/dev/sda1 ro" ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-2.6.20-1.3001.fc6.xen.img" extra = "3" Thanks in advanced for any help!
Richard W.M. Jones
2007-Sep-07 12:24 UTC
Re: [Fedora-xen] Xen paravirtualized guest freezes upon boot
achan@jonathan360.com wrote:> Running xen 3 > > host and guest OS is FC6. > > the guest boots but freezes after starting sshd. Also it fails getting > IP information for eth0.If this is a problem with sshd starting, it''s very interesting. Can you boot the guest in single user mode and see if you can trigger the bug by starting sshd manually. Also take a look at ''xm dmesg''. Another route is to upgrade to a more recent hypervisor (ie. Fedora 7 as the host). Rich. -- Emerging Technologies, Red Hat - http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/ Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 03798903