Re: [Xen-users] xm list not showing guest machines as "running"

[David Kowis <dkowis@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Ernst Bachmann wrote:
> On Thursday 23 February 2006 14:57, David Kowis wrote:
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>> as the screenshot [0] shows, my virtual machines aren't showing up as
>> running. This causes me a few problems. One being if I do xm shutdown
>> SMGL-1 it simply powers it down, it doesn't send the "shutdown signal"
>> or whatever makes it go away :) I've done a from source install using
>> the instructions mentioned [1]. Other than that it's working great. Am i
>> supposed to start some sort of daemon on the guest VM so that xm
>> list|top know that the machine is running? I'm really not sure why it's
>> not showing up as "running." Occasionally, I'll see a "b" in there, so I
>> know it's communicating somehow.
>>
>> I'm using xen 3.0.1.
> 
> Its normal they don't show as running. the running flag is only set if the 
> domain has ownership of a CPU just in that moment. If you run xen on a single 
> CPU system, no domU can ever show as running, as the cpu is obviously 
> currently in dom0, producing the xm top output.
Oh okay, well thats good then :)

> 
> "blocked" means: that domain is waiting for some IO to complete, that is, it 
> just passed a network packet / hdd request to the backend drivers and is 
> waiting for the answer.
Okay, that's what I figured...

> 
> to test the shutdown:
> 
> attach to the console with "xm console ...", then issue the xm shutdown from 
> another shell to see if it really does skip the shutdown process.

Oh it most definately skips. I'm seeing the login prompt and then I see
a "Power down." then I've got my dom0 console back.

from another console: xm shutdown SMGL-1

<Screen paste>
rc: Entered runlevel 3...
Entered runlevel default...

Welcome to /dev/tty1 of smgl-xen1 on Thu Feb 23  2006
Running Source Mage GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.12.6-xenU on i686
smgl-xen1 login: Power down.
root@xen:/etc/xen#
</Screen paste>

It shouldn't have done the Power Down. bit, it should've gone through
the rest of the shutdown stuff, as if I'd told it to halt.



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David Kowis

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