[Fedora-xen] Kernel Update for Xen Dom0
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
konrad.wilk at oracle.com
Wed May 30 01:24:34 UTC 2012
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 03:29:48PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 01:38:09PM +0200, Steven Smith wrote:
> >
> > When i update the kernel with yum, the kernel is built, the (many) grub
> > entries are added (all appended correctly). Everything looks good. I can
> > boot the non-xen kernel fine.. starts up, correct version of kernel. But
> > starting the new xen dom0 kernel does not work. It just hangs, even with
> > manual command-line entries. I can boot the old xen dom0 kernel without
> > any problems, and it runs as before. What is held in the xen-4.1.x.gz
> > file? I had expected this gz to be rebuilt or at least touched.. but it
> > is not. What are the usual steps required to upgrade the dom0 kernel
> > manually? Must it be done from the xendom0 or the stand alone kernel?
> > Are any special steps needed? (yum update is apparently insufficient).
> > Is there a special order to be adhered to?
> >
> > uname (current):
> > Linux myserver.mydomain.local 3.2.1-3.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jan 23
> > 15:36:17 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >
> > the newly compiled non-booting kernel is: 3.3.1-3.fc16.x86_64
> >
>
> Oh, yes, the latest kernel has some bug when running as dom0.
> I wonder if it's this one: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804347
I think it is. I just booted vmlinuz-3.3.6-3.fc16.x86_64 and it had no such
trouble.
>
> Konrad probably knows/remembers..
>
> Meanwhile you should set up a serial console so you can capture the crash logs:
> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XenSerialConsole
>
> So please post the full Xen hypervisor + dom0 Linux kernel verbose debug log here.
>
> -- Pasi
>
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