Re: Xen 3.1 - Can't run Fedora Core 1 PV

[Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>]

Is this using an up-to-date kernel image? I.e., we think the problem occurs
when we hit the init task?

 -- Keir

On 12/7/07 11:46, "Nick Craig-Wood" <nick@craig-wood.com> wrote:

> I can't run a Fedora Core 1 image PV - it SEGVs on start.  This is a
> show stopper for me upgrading to xen 3.1 as we have quite a few FC1
> images.
> 
> I've written a bug report here, but I'm not sure anyone ever looks at
> bugzilla!
> 
>   http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=993
> 
> Here are the details...
> 
> Xen 3.1 runs most of my domUs just fine, windows etc, but it doesn't
> run a Fedora Core 1 image.  It hangs at 100% cpu usage just after
> "Freeing kernel memory".
> 
> If I mount the FC1 image on dom0 and chroot into it I get
> 
>   # chroot . /bin/bash
>   Segmentation fault
> 
> I've put a small ext2 filing system here (built from a virgin FC1
> image) which demonstrates the problem
> 
>   http://www.craig-wood.com/nick/pub/fedora_demo.gz
> 
> Mounting it and chrooting from dom0 under Xen 3.1 gives the SEGV.
> Doing the same from Xen 3.0.3 , Xen 3.0.4 and Debian testing works
> fine.
> 
> I've verified that the same thing happens on the binary download from
> the xen web site (xen-3.1.0-install-x86_32p.tgz) dated June 1st so it
> isn't just my dodgy compiling skills!