From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: on starting HVM-domU whole system freezes with "soft lockup - CPU X stuck for XXs! [qemu-dm:...]" [xen 4.0, xen 4.1] Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:28:31 -0400 Message-ID: <20110419132831.GA4060@dumpdata.com> References: <4DA617EC.2020200@gmx.net> <20110414132327.GG5548@dumpdata.com> <4DA8C296.1010502@gmx.net> <20110418210230.GA8003@dumpdata.com> <4DACBCB5.1060603@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DACBCB5.1060603@gmx.net> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: "MadLoisae@gmx.net" Cc: Keir Fraser , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:35:33AM +0200, MadLoisae@gmx.net wrote: > I have to revise my last email. > Not only the initialisation is slow, also further I/O stalls the dom0. > This is an Intel 945GM/E chipset, with an IDE-CF-Card as / (ext3) > filesystem and an IDE-2.5" hardisk (/home, ext4). IDE-CF-card is > slower, only able to read/write about 35MBytes/second, the 2.5" HDD > is at about 55MBytes/sec. > Both, the ISO-image and the virtual harddisk are on the /home > directory and therefore on the harddisk. > Is there maybe an I/O problem? Dom0 is able to do everysth. like > usual on all filesystems, both disks are without errors. Perhaps? Not sure. Can you put your guest image on an LVM (logical volume) or a disk partition instead of a file?