From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bastian Blank Subject: Re: debian xen 4.1 and 3.8.x kernel (from experimental) Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:45:49 +0200 Message-ID: <20130420114549.GA18893@waldi.eu.org> References: <6035A0D088A63A46850C3988ED045A4B4D73B727@BITCOM1.int.sbss.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6035A0D088A63A46850C3988ED045A4B4D73B727@BITCOM1.int.sbss.com.au> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: James Harper Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 01:18:09AM +0000, James Harper wrote: > I'm trying to get ceph working with decent performance (currently getting kb/second write performance!) and it seems that maybe the Debian wheezy kernel is just a bit too ancient. > The 3.8 kernel from experimental works on bare metal, but when booting as dom0 under the xen hypervisor it crashes. I can boot linux 3.8.5-1~experimental.1 on a xen 4.1.4-3. > I just figured out how to redirect xen output to my IPMI/BMC serial port and I see this: > (XEN) HVM: Hardware Assisted Paging (HAP) detected > (XEN) HVM: HAP page sizes: 4kB, 2MB > (XEN) Brought up 4 CPUs > (XEN) *** LOADING DOMAIN 0 *** > (XEN) elf_init: not an ELF binary > Does this mean that Debian is compiling the kernel incorrectly (in which case I'll file a bug), or is my Xen now too old to support it? This means your Xen is older then the version in Wheezy and lacks support for XZ. Bastian -- You can't evaluate a man by logic alone. -- McCoy, "I, Mudd", stardate 4513.3