This happens randomly, more often than not the next xm create will succeed. Don''t think kernel config is related as I use almost identical setup on my UP machine, but I use the work around for dev designations on all the vm configs. With that setup I get 100% success on creation of domU''s with changeset: 7353:29db5bded574, this changeset would not boot dom0 on the SMP machine. Tyan 2462 SMP , FC4 dom0 changeset: 7369:92c6021f23e4 tag: tip parent: 7368:7b9547485703 parent: 7367:10c93f58b041 user: emellor@leeni.uk.xensource.com date: Thu Oct 13 10:26:44 2005 +0100 summary: Merge. register_blkdev: cannot get major 8 for sd xen_blk: can''t get major 8 with name sd Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000104 printing eip: c0254428 *pde = ma 00000000 pa 55555000 Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 0 EIP: 0061:[<c0254428>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.12-xenU) EIP is at blk_start_queue+0x8/0x60 eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000000 edx: fbffc000 esi: c12e0004 edi: c12b2d85 ebp: c119bf9c esp: c119bf28 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0069 Process xenwatch (pid: 10, threadinfo=c119a000 task=c006e580) Stack: c0264862 c12e0000 c0266a8e 00000000 c12e0000 c026759c c12e0000 00000000 00000802 00000000 00000200 c12e0000 c02f8387 c119bf78 c03056b9 c02f6db2 c119bf70 00000000 00000200 00080000 00000000 c02674b0 c12b2a60 c119a000 Call Trace: [<c0264862>] xenbus_dev_ok+0x32/0x60 [<c0266a8e>] kick_pending_request_queues+0x1e/0x40 [<c026759c>] watch_for_status+0xec/0x140 [<c02674b0>] watch_for_status+0x0/0x140 [<c0264e77>] xenwatch_thread+0x87/0x140 [<c01363c0>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x60 [<c0264df0>] xenwatch_thread+0x0/0x140 [<c0135ea7>] kthread+0xc7/0xd0 [<c0135de0>] kthread+0x0/0xd0 [<c010782d>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x18 Code: 00 00 00 8b 44 24 04 8b 48 60 ff e1 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 81 44 24 04 a0 00 00 00 e9 e3 26 00 00 8d 76 00 53 83 ec 04 8b 5c 24 0c <f0> 0f ba b3 04 01 00 00 02 f0 0f ba ab 04 01 00 00 06 19 c0 85 <6>IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbyte Going to run tests on same box and changset with Centos 4.1 as well tomorrow. Regards, Ted _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel