Re: [Xen-devel] Guest Win7 VGA passthru display video cause host Fedora hang issue on XEN4.1

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:16:14AM +0800, Cao, Buddy wrote:
>    Hi guys, I set up XEN4.1 on fedora 14 64bit, and install guest Win7  which
>    vga passthru display  videos by  Windows Media  Player. I  left the  video
>    running entire weekend, after I'm back  on Monday, the screen freezed  and
>    fedora was not accessible via ssh or vnc. I tried again, found this  issue
>    is intermittent,  there are 50% odds to reproduce the issue after  running
>    3+ days.
> 
> 
> 
>    Attached is the logs I have when the issue occurs.
> 
> 

Hello,

I don't see anything related to the crashes in the logs.

I think you need to set up a serial console to be able to
capture the crash logs on another computer.

http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenSerialConsole
http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps

-- Pasi

> 
>    Hardware: Intel Sandy bridge platform,  Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2655LE CPU  @
>    2.20GHz, 320G HDD, two 2G Kingstone DDR3 memories
> 
> 
> 
>    xend-config.sxp
> 
>    (xend-unix-server yes)
> 
>    (xend-http-server yes)
> 
>    (xend-relocation-server yes)
> 
>    (xend-port 8000)
> 
>    (xend-relocation-hosts-allow '^localhost$ ^localhost\\.localdomain$')
> 
>    (network-script network-bridge)
> 
>    (vif-script vif-bridge)
> 
>    (dom0-min-mem 512)
> 
>    (enable-dom0-ballooning yes)
> 
>    (total_available_memory 0)
> 
>    (dom0-cpus 0)
> 
>    (vnc-listen '0.0.0.0')
> 
>    (vncpasswd '')
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>    guest win7 .cfg
> 
>    import os, re
> 
>    arch = os.uname()[4]
> 
>    name = "GuestOS_Backup"
> 
>    maxmem = 2048
> 
>    memory = 2048
> 
>    vcpus = 4
> 
>    builder = "hvm"
> 
>    kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
> 
>    boot = "c"
> 
>    pae = 0
> 
>    acpi = 1
> 
>    apic = 1
> 
>    timer_mode =1
> 
>    shadow_memory = 32
> 
>    on_poweroff = "destroy"
> 
>    on_reboot = "restart"
> 
>    on_crash = "restart"
> 
>    device_model = "/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm"
> 
>    vnc = 1
> 
>    disk = [ "file:/opt/EVM/domain/a.img,hda,w" ]
> 
>    vif = [ "type=ioemu" ]
> 
>    audio = 1
> 
> 
> 
>    gfx_passthru=1
> 
>    pci = ['00:02.0','00:1f.0','00:1a.0','00:1d.0','00:1b.0']
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>    Thanks,
> 
>    Wei   Cao   |   ZZH2   2W081   |   8   821   5739   |   021   61165739   |
>    [1]http://flexservices.intel.com/
> 
> 
> 
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