Re: [Xen-users] DomU crashes sometimes

[Steven Timm <timm@xxxxxxxx>]

32-bit paravirt clients on 64-bit domU don't work well with centos,
either do 64 on 64, or use HVM, or 32 on 32.  At least that was
my experience when I tried it.

Steve Timm


On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Donald Plummer wrote:

> I've got Xen 3.1.0-53.1.14.el5 installed on CentOS 5.1 x86_64 (kernel
> 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5xen). Hardware is Opteron 1212 on a SuperMicro
> MNL-H8SSL-i2 motherboard (ServerWorks HT1000 chipset).
>
>
>
> When I try to startup a new CentOS DomU (using the vmlinuz and initrd as
> specified in this guide
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/InstallingCentOSDomU) the initial
> install crashes at least 50% of the time. The error lines in my xend.log
> are:
>
> [2008-03-25 08:05:55 xend.XendDomainInfo 7375] WARNING
> (XendDomainInfo:923) Domain has crashed: name=resolver3 id=9.
>
> [2008-03-25 08:05:55 xend.XendDomainInfo 7375] DEBUG
> (XendDomainInfo:1557) XendDomainInfo.destroy: domid=9
>
> [2008-03-25 08:05:55 xend.XendDomainInfo 7375] DEBUG
> (XendDomainInfo:1566) XendDomainInfo.destroyDomain(9)
>
>
>
> The console doesn't report any errors, it just drops me back to the
> Dom0, last thing displayed is whatever package it happened to be trying
> to install at the time.
>
>
>
> How can I track down this problem to a configuration or hardware
> problem? My thoughts right now are either I'm not using the right initrd
> and vmlinuz (I was using the 32-bit initrd and vmlinuz for the DomU
> install from http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/images/xen/), or
> some part of my hardware is tripping out.
>
>
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Donald
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