Re: a ton of kernel issues

[George Shuklin <george.shuklin@gmail.com>]

Use suse and Centos5 (not 6) kernels. They works right with xen better 
then others. OpenSUSE release pretty offten, so they have at least 
2.6.34, 2.6.37 and 3.1. Or you can use old centos 2.6.18.

All those kernels is '-xen', not vanilla. pv_ops is still have some 
issues with memory limits, but any new kernel (3.0+) will boot normal 
and operates with very minor glitches. Older pv_ops (f.e. debian 2.6.32) 
have some more major issues.

On 13.12.2011 01:44, Tim Evers wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> please forgive me if I'm not 100% right on this list but I'm going mad
> about the current xen development as far as the pv_ops kernel are
> involved. I've been using Xen since 3.0 in various productive setups
> without any serious problems for years now.
>
> And now, since the support for the "patched" distro-kernel like debian 5
> run out I'm trying to setup a working xen+pv_ops kernel with regard to
> cpu and ram hotplug and live migration. Nothing special I thought but
> hell I'm totally lost: After testing two month now dozens of
> combinations I was not able to find a single kernel / xen combination
> which supports the abovementioned features. Some crash after hotplug on
> a migrated domu, some crash right at the migration and some crash right
> at the start if vcpu_avail>  vcpus.
>
> I've tested
>
> xen-4.0
> xen-4.1
>
> debian 6 32 and 64 bit (2.6.32-x kernel)
> ubuntu lucid 32 and 64 bit kernels including karmic, natty and even
> oneric backports
>
> I've put some questions on the users mailinglist, wrote bug reports but
> today after two month work on this I'm as stuck as one can get.
>
> Is it possible that there is not a single working xen+pv_ops setup out
> there which matches my needs? I can't believe it.
>
> I appreciate _any_ hint!
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-users/2011-11/msg00553.html
> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-users/2011-11/msg00523.html
> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-users/2011-11/msg00295.html
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/893177
>
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