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

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 08:03:16AM -0600, Ken Cobler wrote:
>    Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> 
>  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
> 
> 
> 
>  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?
> 
> 
> 
>    Unfortunately, no.
> 

Ok. Then you might want to follow the Novell bugzilla entries.. I've
seen multiple bug entries about 2.6.31 Xen kernel crashes there.

-- Pasi


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