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Re: [Xen-users] xen + centos + areca raid issues


  • To: Anand Gupta <xen.mails@xxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:59:46 +0000
  • Cc: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Anand Gupta wrote:
On 10/28/07, *Daniel P. Berrange* <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

    They're not required, because they're not required. That combo of
    lines
    happens to setup the guest in text mode with a serial console, but
    that's
    just one of many ways of configuring a guest. Certain badly
    behaved guest
    OS require a specific combo of options, but most don't care at all.


How can you say the guest is badly setup ? I used virt-manager to install a fresh centos5 pv domain using file based image, gave it the installation CD to use. It installed perfectly fine and was working also fine. Unless virt-manager itself creates a badly behaved guest ?

And then once i remove centos5 xen packages, virt-manager, compile xen 3.1.1, the image stopped booting. Once i add those lines, it starts to work again.

wondering...
Switching from a compiled configuration for *one* version of Xen, namely 3.0.x for CentOS 5, to another verson of Xen, namely 3.1.1, is sort of asking for backwards compatibility trouble.

I'm afraid such problems are likely to recur with hand-implemented Xen migrations to more recent releases, at least until RedHat has decided to update to it. And that's unlikely for RHEL 5: the stability of such OS version sis a big selling point for RedHat.

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