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

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

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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