RE: [Xen-users] DELL PowerEdge 2850

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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. 

Try putting 'usb-handoff' on the *linux* command line. If that doesn't
work, try 'nousb'. Please report back to the list.

Thanks,
Ian
 
> 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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