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From: Chris Brannon <cmb@prgmr.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: xen 4.10.0: stubdomain for HVM guest fails to start unless qdisk backend is used?
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2018 07:24:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87po4db7b0.fsf@prgmr.com> (raw)

I recently made a build of xen 4.10.0 and installed it.
I have a pre-existing HVM guest that uses the following configuration:
1 hard drive using the phy disk backend.  The guest also uses a device
model stubdomain.  After upgrading, it refuses to start, due to a
stubdomain timeout:

Parsing config from somedomain
libxl: error: libxl_dm.c:2203:stubdom_xswait_cb: Domain 32:Stubdom 33 for 32 startup: startup timed out
libxl: error: libxl_create.c:1538:domcreate_devmodel_started: Domain 32:device model did not start: -9
libxl: error: libxl_domain.c:1000:libxl__destroy_domid: Domain 32:Non-existant domain
libxl: error: libxl_domain.c:959:domain_destroy_callback: Domain 32:Unable to destroy guest
libxl: error: libxl_domain.c:886:domain_destroy_cb: Domain 32:Destruction of domain failed

There is nothing in the logs.

I noticed that a similar guest was booting with no issue.  The
difference was that the booting guest also had a CD-ROM attached.  That
CD-ROM used the qdisk backend, because it is backed by an ISO9660 image file.
I changed the disk parameter in the first non-booting guest so that it
used the qdisk backend rather than phy, and it booted with no trouble.

Has anyone else had an issue like this after upgrading to 4.10?  I did
some searching, and I didn't find anything.  I'm a bit surprised by
that.  Since this is so easy for me to reproduce, and no one else has
mentioned it, I wonder if my build could be subtly broken somehow.

-- Chris

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             reply	other threads:[~2018-03-09 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-09 15:24 Chris Brannon [this message]
2018-03-12 14:28 ` xen 4.10.0: stubdomain for HVM guest fails to start unless qdisk backend is used? George Dunlap
2018-03-12 18:33   ` Chris Brannon

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