From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=E9r=F4me_Petazzoni?= Subject: Re: More Xen troubles (with xend this time) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:45:29 +0100 Message-ID: <41ACA3A9.20305@enix.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Ian Pratt , xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org >>I did restore the domain, then noticed it was crashed ("-----c" in xm >>list). I tried to destroy it, but it didn't work. So I stopped xend, >>restarted it ... And there it goes : >> >> > >Restarting xend was a bit of a brave move. Although its intended >to be restartable, there are definitely bugs in the restart code, >particularly if you have domains in unusual states at the time > > Okay, and once we "lost" xend, there is no way to do anything ? (create, destroy, shutdown, get a console...) >As to why the domain wouldn't be destroyed, that may turn out to >be a useful clue as to the resume problem at its root. If we >could get a crashdump from a known kernel image I'm sure we can >fix this pretty easily. > > I will do my best to reboot the box and try to reproduce the problem. But if the restore operation crashes xend, I will never be able to get a crash dump - unless there's another way to get the information ? If I don't use save/restore/migrate, can I expect Xen to be stable ? Or are there other features that are deemed to cause problems ? ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/