[Xen-users] minor miracles (a xen 3.0 story)

["Eric S. Johansson" <esj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

since the Christmas season is a time for stories of miracles, I will 
share with you the tale of a forced transition between 2.0.4 and the 
current unstable.
A couple of days ago I had a power outage which went longer than my UPS 
capacity.  On restoration of power, I discovered the system wouldn't 
boot.  It looked like an earlier gentoo update went south and took my 
dom0 with it.  so I immediately turned to ubuntu and started building a 
new dom0.  I had trials and tribulations with lvm on the system disk but 
eventually, identified all the device drivers I needed to have compiled 
in because I really didn't want to wrestle with initrd.  After building 
new configuration files, all of the old domU's started up without 
modification and ran.  A Christmas miracle.
Now all is not perfect, occasionally imap locks up and I can't kill any 
of the processes so I need to restart the domU machine.  I want to 
migrate all of these domU's to ubuntu based systems hence my other 
message about domU generation problems.
But I am very glad it works as well as it does.  I can catch my breath now.

--- eric

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