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Ken Cobler

2009-Dec-13 21:32 UTC

[Xen-users] Xen 3.4 + GPLPV + physical drive or partition

Hello.

I have an odd problem, but, easy to replicate.

Xen 3.4 + GPLPV + Windows 2003 guest.  I''ve tried this on both 
0.10.0.138 and 0.10.0.142 drivers.

If the hard drive is an image file (loaded and set in the xen config 
file), Windows 2003 guest boots and runs great with the GPLPV drivers.

If the hard drive is a physical drive or partition, Windows 2003 guest 
boots and runs fine with the QEMU drivers.

If the hard drive is a physical drive or partition, Windows 2003 guest 
boots and runs with the GPLPV drivers for about 3-5 minutes. At the 
time, the entire machine locks up and I have to power cycle machine to 
recover (no mouse, or keyboard response).

I even took the crashed Windows 2003 partition, dd copied to a file, 
setup xen to point to the image file instead of phy device.  The Windows 
2003 guest came up with the GPLPV drivers and ran great.

Is there something else that I am not doing correct to get the Windows 
2003 guest to run stable with the GPLPV drivers on a physical partition?

Ken Cobler

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James Harper

2009-Dec-13 23:53 UTC

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RE: [Xen-users] Xen 3.4 + GPLPV + physical drive or partition

> 
> I have an odd problem, but, easy to replicate.
> 
> Xen 3.4 + GPLPV + Windows 2003 guest.  I''ve tried this on both
> 0.10.0.138 and 0.10.0.142 drivers.
> 
> If the hard drive is an image file (loaded and set in the xen config
> file), Windows 2003 guest boots and runs great with the GPLPV drivers.
> 
> If the hard drive is a physical drive or partition, Windows 2003 guest
> boots and runs fine with the QEMU drivers.
> 
> If the hard drive is a physical drive or partition, Windows 2003 guest
> boots and runs with the GPLPV drivers for about 3-5 minutes. At the
> time, the entire machine locks up and I have to power cycle machine to
> recover (no mouse, or keyboard response).
> 
> I even took the crashed Windows 2003 partition, dd copied to a file,
> setup xen to point to the image file instead of phy device.  The
Windows> 2003 guest came up with the GPLPV drivers and ran great.
> 
> Is there something else that I am not doing correct to get the Windows
> 2003 guest to run stable with the GPLPV drivers on a physical
partition?> 
Can you send me the contents of /var/log/xen/qemu-dm-<domname>.log at
the point where the hang occurs?

I use phy: on lvm partitions almost exclusively and have no problems. I
use mostly 32 bits but I''ve definitely used 64 bits for well over 3-5
minutes without problems.

James

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Pasi Kärkkäinen

2009-Dec-14 08:04 UTC

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Re: [Xen-users] Xen 3.4 + GPLPV + physical drive or partition

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 03:32:49PM -0600, Ken Cobler
wrote:> Hello.
> 
> I have an odd problem, but, easy to replicate.
> 
> Xen 3.4 + GPLPV + Windows 2003 guest.  I''ve tried this on both 
> 0.10.0.138 and 0.10.0.142 drivers.
> 
> If the hard drive is an image file (loaded and set in the xen config 
> file), Windows 2003 guest boots and runs great with the GPLPV drivers.
> 
> If the hard drive is a physical drive or partition, Windows 2003 guest 
> boots and runs fine with the QEMU drivers.
> 
> If the hard drive is a physical drive or partition, Windows 2003 guest 
> boots and runs with the GPLPV drivers for about 3-5 minutes. At the 
> time, the entire machine locks up and I have to power cycle machine to 
> recover (no mouse, or keyboard response).
> 
> I even took the crashed Windows 2003 partition, dd copied to a file, 
> setup xen to point to the image file instead of phy device.  The Windows 
> 2003 guest came up with the GPLPV drivers and ran great.
> 
> Is there something else that I am not doing correct to get the Windows 
> 2003 guest to run stable with the GPLPV drivers on a physical partition?
> 
- What''s your Xen version? What''s your dom0 kernel version? 
- For the image file, did you use file: or tap:aio: ?
- For the physical partition, did you use phy: ?

And also please paste the whole /etc/xen/<guest> cfgfile.

-- Pasi


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Ken Cobler

2009-Dec-14 13:50 UTC

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Re: [Xen-users] Xen 3.4 + GPLPV + physical drive or partition

Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 03:32:49PM -0600, Ken Cobler wrote:

Hello.

I have an odd problem, but, easy to replicate.

Xen 3.4 + GPLPV + Windows 2003 guest.  I''ve tried this on both 
0.10.0.138 and 0.10.0.142 drivers.

If the hard drive is an image file (loaded and set in the xen config 
file), Windows 2003 guest boots and runs great with the GPLPV drivers.

If the hard drive is a physical drive or partition, Windows 2003 guest 
boots and runs fine with the QEMU drivers.

If the hard drive is a physical drive or partition, Windows 2003 guest 
boots and runs with the GPLPV drivers for about 3-5 minutes. At the 
time, the entire machine locks up and I have to power cycle machine to 
recover (no mouse, or keyboard response).

I even took the crashed Windows 2003 partition, dd copied to a file, 
setup xen to point to the image file instead of phy device.  The Windows 
2003 guest came up with the GPLPV drivers and ran great.

Is there something else that I am not doing correct to get the Windows 
2003 guest to run stable with the GPLPV drivers on a physical partition?

- What''s your Xen version? What''s your dom0 kernel version? 
- For the image file, did you use file: or tap:aio: ?
- For the physical partition, did you use phy: ?

And also please paste the whole /etc/xen/ cfgfile.

Xen version from xm dmesg:

(XEN) Xen version 3.4.1_19718_04-2.1 (abuild@) (gcc version 4.4.1
[gcc-4_4-branch revision

 150839] (SUSE Linux) ) Tue Oct 27 16:31:01 UTC 2009

OpenSuse 11.2 dmesg out:

[    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.31.5-0.1-xen (geeko@buildhost) (gcc
version 4.4.1 [gcc-4_

4-branch revision 150839] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP 2009-10-26 15:49:03
+0100

For the image file used file directive:

disk=[
''file:/var/lib/xen/images/windows2003/windows2003.img,hda,w'',
''phy:/dev/sr0,hdc:cdrom,r'', ]

Here is the windows2003 (physical partition) xen config fie:

name="windows2003"

uuid="d86fa089-97ca-e30a-ab13-b6a7f65adcfc"

memory=1024

maxmem=1024

vcpus=1

on_poweroff="destroy"

on_reboot="restart"

on_crash="destroy"

localtime=1

keymap="en-us"

builder="hvm"

extid=0

device_model="/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm"

kernel="/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"

boot="c"

disk=[ ''phy:/dev/sda3,hda,w'',
''phy:/dev/sr0,hdc:cdrom,r'', ]

vif=[ ''bridge=br0,model=rtl8139'', ]

stdvga=0

vnc=1

vncunused=1

apic=1

acpi=1

pae=1

usb=1

usbdevice=''tablet''

serial="pty"

Thanks.  Ken Cobler


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Pasi Kärkkäinen

2009-Dec-14 13:54 UTC

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Re: [Xen-users] Xen 3.4 + GPLPV + physical drive or partition

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 07:50:23AM -0600, Ken Cobler
wrote:>    Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> 
>  On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 03:32:49PM -0600, Ken Cobler wrote:
> 
> 
>  Hello.
> 
>  I have an odd problem, but, easy to replicate.
> 
>  Xen 3.4 + GPLPV + Windows 2003 guest.  I''ve tried this on both
>  0.10.0.138 and 0.10.0.142 drivers.
> 
>  If the hard drive is an image file (loaded and set in the xen config
>  file), Windows 2003 guest boots and runs great with the GPLPV drivers.
> 
>  If the hard drive is a physical drive or partition, Windows 2003 guest
>  boots and runs fine with the QEMU drivers.
> 
>  If the hard drive is a physical drive or partition, Windows 2003 guest
>  boots and runs with the GPLPV drivers for about 3-5 minutes. At the
>  time, the entire machine locks up and I have to power cycle machine to
>  recover (no mouse, or keyboard response).
> 
>  I even took the crashed Windows 2003 partition, dd copied to a file,
>  setup xen to point to the image file instead of phy device.  The Windows
>  2003 guest came up with the GPLPV drivers and ran great.
> 
>  Is there something else that I am not doing correct to get the Windows
>  2003 guest to run stable with the GPLPV drivers on a physical partition?
> 
> 
> 
>  - What''s your Xen version? What''s your dom0 kernel
version?
>  - For the image file, did you use file: or tap:aio: ?
>  - For the physical partition, did you use phy: ?
> 
>  And also please paste the whole /etc/xen/<guest> cfgfile.
> 
> 
> 
>    Xen version from xm dmesg:
> 
>    (XEN) Xen version 3.4.1_19718_04-2.1 (abuild@) (gcc version 4.4.1
>    [gcc-4_4-branch revision
>     150839] (SUSE Linux) ) Tue Oct 27 16:31:01 UTC 2009
> 
>    OpenSuse 11.2 dmesg out:
> 
>    [    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.31.5-0.1-xen (geeko@buildhost) (gcc
>    version 4.4.1 [gcc-4_
>    4-branch revision 150839] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP 2009-10-26 15:49:03
+0100
> 
>    For the image file used file directive:
>    disk=[
''[1]file:/var/lib/xen/images/windows2003/windows2003.img,hda,w'',
>    ''phy:/dev/sr0,hdc:cdrom,r'', ]
> 
>    Here is the windows2003 (physical partition) xen config fie:
> 
>    name="windows2003"
>    uuid="d86fa089-97ca-e30a-ab13-b6a7f65adcfc"
>    memory=1024
>    maxmem=1024
>    vcpus=1
>    on_poweroff="destroy"
>    on_reboot="restart"
>    on_crash="destroy"
>    localtime=1
>    keymap="en-us"
> 
>    builder="hvm"
>    extid=0
>    device_model="/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm"
>    kernel="/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
>    boot="c"
>    disk=[ ''phy:/dev/sda3,hda,w'',
''phy:/dev/sr0,hdc:cdrom,r'', ]
>    vif=[ ''bridge=br0,model=rtl8139'', ]
> 
>    stdvga=0
>    vnc=1
>    vncunused=1
>    apic=1
>    acpi=1
>    pae=1
> 
>    usb=1
>    usbdevice=''tablet''
> 
>    serial="pty"
> 
>    Thanks.  Ken Cobler
> 
OpenSUSE 2.6.31 Xen kernel is known to have problems/bugs causing dom0
kernel crashes.

Could you try earlier (2.6.29 or 2.6.27) dom0 kernel? 

-- Pasi


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Pasi Kärkkäinen

2009-Dec-14 14:02 UTC

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Re: [Xen-users] Xen 3.4 + GPLPV + physical drive or partition

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 08:03:16AM -0600, Ken Cobler
wrote:>    Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> 
>  On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 07:50:23AM -0600, Ken Cobler wrote:
> 
> 
>     Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> 
>   On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 03:32:49PM -0600, Ken Cobler wrote:
> 
> 
>   Hello.
> 
>   I have an odd problem, but, easy to replicate.
> 
>   Xen 3.4 + GPLPV + Windows 2003 guest.  I''ve tried this on both
>   0.10.0.138 and 0.10.0.142 drivers.
> 
>   If the hard drive is an image file (loaded and set in the xen config
>   file), Windows 2003 guest boots and runs great with the GPLPV drivers.
> 
>   If the hard drive is a physical drive or partition, Windows 2003 guest
>   boots and runs fine with the QEMU drivers.
> 
>   If the hard drive is a physical drive or partition, Windows 2003 guest
>   boots and runs with the GPLPV drivers for about 3-5 minutes. At the
>   time, the entire machine locks up and I have to power cycle machine to
>   recover (no mouse, or keyboard response).
> 
>   I even took the crashed Windows 2003 partition, dd copied to a file,
>   setup xen to point to the image file instead of phy device.  The Windows
>   2003 guest came up with the GPLPV drivers and ran great.
> 
>   Is there something else that I am not doing correct to get the Windows
>   2003 guest to run stable with the GPLPV drivers on a physical partition?
> 
> 
> 
>   - What''s your Xen version? What''s your dom0 kernel
version?
>   - For the image file, did you use file: or tap:aio: ?
>   - For the physical partition, did you use phy: ?
> 
>   And also please paste the whole /etc/xen/<guest> cfgfile.
> 
> 
> 
>     Xen version from xm dmesg:
> 
>     (XEN) Xen version 3.4.1_19718_04-2.1 (abuild@) (gcc version 4.4.1
>     [gcc-4_4-branch revision
>      150839] (SUSE Linux) ) Tue Oct 27 16:31:01 UTC 2009
> 
>     OpenSuse 11.2 dmesg out:
> 
>     [    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.31.5-0.1-xen (geeko@buildhost) (gcc
>     version 4.4.1 [gcc-4_
>     4-branch revision 150839] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP 2009-10-26 15:49:03
+0100
> 
> 
> 
>  OpenSUSE 2.6.31 Xen kernel is known to have problems/bugs causing dom0
>  kernel crashes.
> 
>  Could you try earlier (2.6.29 or 2.6.27) dom0 kernel?
> 
> 
> 
>    Unfortunately, no.
> 
Ok. Then you might want to follow the Novell bugzilla entries.. I''ve
seen multiple bug entries about 2.6.31 Xen kernel crashes there.

-- Pasi


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Ken Cobler

2009-Dec-14 14:03 UTC

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Re: [Xen-users] Xen 3.4 + GPLPV + physical drive or partition

Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 07:50:23AM -0600, Ken Cobler wrote:

   Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:

 On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 03:32:49PM -0600, Ken Cobler wrote:

 Hello.

 I have an odd problem, but, easy to replicate.

 Xen 3.4 + GPLPV + Windows 2003 guest.  I''ve tried this on both
 0.10.0.138 and 0.10.0.142 drivers.

 If the hard drive is an image file (loaded and set in the xen config
 file), Windows 2003 guest boots and runs great with the GPLPV drivers.

 If the hard drive is a physical drive or partition, Windows 2003 guest
 boots and runs fine with the QEMU drivers.

 If the hard drive is a physical drive or partition, Windows 2003 guest
 boots and runs with the GPLPV drivers for about 3-5 minutes. At the
 time, the entire machine locks up and I have to power cycle machine to
 recover (no mouse, or keyboard response).

 I even took the crashed Windows 2003 partition, dd copied to a file,
 setup xen to point to the image file instead of phy device.  The Windows
 2003 guest came up with the GPLPV drivers and ran great.

 Is there something else that I am not doing correct to get the Windows
 2003 guest to run stable with the GPLPV drivers on a physical partition?

 - What''s your Xen version? What''s your dom0 kernel version?
 - For the image file, did you use file: or tap:aio: ?
 - For the physical partition, did you use phy: ?

 And also please paste the whole /etc/xen/ cfgfile.

   Xen version from xm dmesg:

   (XEN) Xen version 3.4.1_19718_04-2.1 (abuild@) (gcc version 4.4.1
   [gcc-4_4-branch revision
    150839] (SUSE Linux) ) Tue Oct 27 16:31:01 UTC 2009

   OpenSuse 11.2 dmesg out:

   [    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.31.5-0.1-xen (geeko@buildhost) (gcc
   version 4.4.1 [gcc-4_
   4-branch revision 150839] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP 2009-10-26 15:49:03 +0100

OpenSUSE 2.6.31 Xen kernel is known to have problems/bugs causing dom0
kernel crashes.

Could you try earlier (2.6.29 or 2.6.27) dom0 kernel? 

Unfortunately, no.

Ken


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