Xen users - May 2006 - Xen 3.0.2 on Dell 2850

Is anyone running Xen on this hardware? Is it stable?


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Adam Kosmin
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I''m pretty sure there are some. I did a quick search of Dell 2850 at
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/

It comes up with about 8 pages of hits (but I''m not sure how good those
last 7 pages of hits are - I only looked at the first page). 

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> Subject: [Xen-users] Xen 3.0.2 on Dell 2850
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> Is anyone running Xen on this hardware? Is it stable?
> 
> 
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> Adam Kosmin
> GNU/Linux SA
> Visual Trading Systems, LLC
> 
> Empire State Building
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On Wednesday 03 May 2006 17:17, Adam Kosmin wrote:
> Is anyone running Xen on this hardware? Is it stable?
Yes it seems :-)

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On Wed, 3 May 2006, Adam Kosmin wrote:
> Is anyone running Xen on this hardware? Is it stable?
I have two 1850s running Xen. They''re exactly the same as 2850 except
for the 1U chassis. Both Xen2-testing and Xen-unstable seem to be
running just fine.

Dell systems have a known issue with the on-board USB controller,
which is a piece of crap. Disabling USB from BIOS or just leaving out
USB support from your xen0 kernel will improve stability a lot.

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Yes, this did the trick and I really appreciate the lists support in 
helping me with the issue. Did I miss this "known issue" somewhere in 
the faqs, docs, wiki? If so, please excuse me. If not, perhaps it would 
be wise for us to cover hardware-specific issues like this on the wiki.

Thoughts?

Best,
Adam

Jussi Hamalainen wrote:
> On Wed, 3 May 2006, Adam Kosmin wrote:
> 
> 
>>Is anyone running Xen on this hardware? Is it stable?
> 
> 
> I have two 1850s running Xen. They''re exactly the same as 2850
except
> for the 1U chassis. Both Xen2-testing and Xen-unstable seem to be
> running just fine.
> 
> Dell systems have a known issue with the on-board USB controller,
> which is a piece of crap. Disabling USB from BIOS or just leaving out
> USB support from your xen0 kernel will improve stability a lot.
> 
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# CONFIG_TCG_TPM is not set

Adam Kosmin
GNU/Linux SA
Visual Trading Systems, LLC

Empire State Building
350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 6420
New York, NY 10118, USA

Email    akosmin@vtsystems.com
Phone  1 (212) 871-1747 ext. 340

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I too an using a Dell Power Edge 2850 with Dual XEON EM64T CPU''s.  I
had Xen
2.0.7 running very well and stable on one of my servers, but it took 4
months of testing before we discovered the USB controller was causing the
server to hang randomly.

I have currently graduated to Xen 3.0.2 based on Red Hat ES 4.  When I
compile a Xen enabled kernel and try to boot I get the message "Dom0 image
not a Xen-compatible Elf image.  I found the previous posts where Xen users
got the same error and have confirmed that in menuconfig, I have XEN_CONFIG
set to yes.

I installed the same RedHat installation and Xen installation files on a
Power Edge SC430 with a Pentium4 EM64T CPU and can boot with no errors.

Can any of you Wise Xen Guru''s shed some light as to where else I can
look
to determine why I recieve this error?

Thank you.

Max Baro 
Technical Support Supervisor 
FACTS Services, Inc. 
(305) 284 - 7440 
meb@factsservices.com 


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Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 11:40:18 -0400
From: Adam Kosmin <akosmin@vtsystems.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen 3.0.2 on Dell 2850
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Yes, this did the trick and I really appreciate the lists support in 
helping me with the issue. Did I miss this "known issue" somewhere in 
the faqs, docs, wiki? If so, please excuse me. If not, perhaps it would 
be wise for us to cover hardware-specific issues like this on the wiki.

Thoughts?

Best,
Adam

Jussi Hamalainen wrote:
> On Wed, 3 May 2006, Adam Kosmin wrote:
> 
> 
>>Is anyone running Xen on this hardware? Is it stable?
> 
> 
> I have two 1850s running Xen. They''re exactly the same as 2850
except
> for the 1U chassis. Both Xen2-testing and Xen-unstable seem to be
> running just fine.
> 
> Dell systems have a known issue with the on-board USB controller,
> which is a piece of crap. Disabling USB from BIOS or just leaving out
> USB support from your xen0 kernel will improve stability a lot.
> 
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# CONFIG_TCG_TPM is not set

Adam Kosmin
GNU/Linux SA
Visual Trading Systems, LLC

Empire State Building
350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 6420
New York, NY 10118, USA

Email    akosmin@vtsystems.com
Phone  1 (212) 871-1747 ext. 340


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