I''ve been testing several distros on xVM in snv_121. Several so far I''ve found crash almost instantly on kernel boot of the Linux domU, some that I''ve seen this with include: * Moblin 2 * Linux Mint 7 * Fedora 11 All of these are HVM; Fedora 11, for instance, works fine in PV mode. In all cases I setup the domU via virt-install, the VNC comes up with the boot menu, and as soon as it goes to start the Linux kernel the entire system crashes, it does not produce a panic, it just cycles the machine. I can only assume this is something to do with recent Linux kernels or some feature within. Does anyone know what bug this is? benr. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 01:10:54PM -0700, Ben Rockwood wrote:> All of these are HVM; Fedora 11, for instance, works fine in PV mode. In all cases I setup the domU via virt-install, the VNC comes up with the boot menu, and as soon as it goes to start the Linux kernel the entire system crashes, it does not produce a panic, it just cycles the machine.Set up a serial console and see what you get from Xen: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/xen/docs/serial-console/ regards john
So here''s the follow up.... xVM is fine. The problem was bad memory in my workstation. During normal operation the machine was fine, but think when xVM was booting domU''s and allocating large quantities of memory for the HVM domains it finally hit bad memory and killed the box. Oh well, seemed like a good time to upgrade to 8GB anyway. ;) benr. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org