[Xen-devel] Re: Linux 3.0-rc1 - what Xen components went in.

[Stephan Seitz <stse+xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:48:20AM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote:
> I tried 3.0-rc2 as a Dom0 kernel, but I have problems with the block 
> backend support.
> Both Dom0 and DomU are Debian/Testing systems. XEN version is 4.1.0.
>
> The 3.0-rc2 compiled and started without problems, even the DomU 
> started.  But when I looked at the DomU console I noticed that the 
> system had problems with the filesystems. ext3 and ext4 partitions 
> produced journal errors and got mounted read only.
I could solve this problem by using the mount option „barrier=0” for all 
ext3 and ext4 filesystems in /etc/fstab.
> The DomU kernel is a 2.6.36.4 vanilla kernel. I noticed that I can’t use 
> a newer kernel. Every kernel > 2.6.36 crashes the DomU immediatley (I 
> don’t even get a console). The log said that DomU was crashing too fast, 
This seems to be fixed in 3.0 as well. At least I could use 3.0-rc3 as 
DomU kernel.
I have now a running Dom0 and DomU with 3.0-rc5, and everything is 
working fine.
Thanks for your help and your work!

Shade and sweet water!

        Stephan

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