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[Xen-users] DELL PowerEdge 2850

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Subject: [Xen-users] DELL PowerEdge 2850
From: "Pierre \"Le Pierrot\"" <cestpierre@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 18:29:37 +0000
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Hello,

I am having problems at getting Xen to boot. I've been trying really hard since last friday and I can't seem to get it to run. I've gone through all sorts of problems, I only got it to work once and even when I was able boot dom1, it didn't work fine! several crashes in between (like freeze, no kernel panics or any other sort of printk()ed messages before crash) as such I beg your attention and patience :-)

I was given a DELL PowerEdge 2850 to setup with 4 virtual machines, all of them running linux. I've downloaded xen 3.0.0 stable source, unstable source, scripts to automate and the rpm versions, the only time I was able to make it go a little longer.

Specs:

::PowerEdge 2850
3 SCSI disks at 10K/146gb configured in raid 5.
2 cpu Intel P4 xeon 3.0 (plus with hyperthreading)
8GB ram::

I've RHEL Advanced Server 4.0 installed.
Disk partition specs:

  /dev/sda1 [      196.08 MB]  <- /boot
  /dev/root [       14.65 GB] <- /
  /dev/sda3 [      996.22 MB]  <- swap
  /dev/sda4 [        1.00 KB] <
  /dev/sda5 [      203.92 MB] <- /tmp
  /dev/sda6 [      257.23 GB] LVM physical volume

Logical Volumes (where all vms will sit)
  ACTIVE            '/dev/vg/vm1' [9.77 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/vg/vm2' [9.77 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/vg/vm3' [9.77 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/vg/vm4' [9.77 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/vg/vm5' [9.77 GB] inherit

Currently, I am trying to work this out with the rpms from xen-3.0-x86_32-rhel4.1.bin.tar.

The symptoms are, everything goes well until the first rc scripts are executed, I can see it starting 'udev' and something else that starts after udev, but then there's a panic and BAM automatic reboot! Wish I could "freeze" it to know what happen. Is there something I can do to understand what's going on here?

I felt tempted to install kdbg patches to have it popping up whenever a crash occurred but I remember that xen simulates a new architecture and so the patch may not go into the right files as I wanted. Any piece of advice will be godsent!

Thank you very much!
Pierre
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