Guest shutdown problems
by Christian Axelsson
Hello
I have a problem shutting down xen guests. Using xm shutdown guests get
shut down but gets stuck in state '---s-d' or sometimes '------'.
When trying to clone a domain when in this state (my original purpose of
the whole operation) I'll get the error:
[root@hydra virtinst--devel]# ./virt-clone -o minimal -n new_img -f
/var/lib/xen/images/new_img.img
ERROR: virDomainGetXMLDesc() failed failed Xen syscall
xenDaemonDomainDumpXMLByID failed to find this domain -490299505
The same errors occurs when for example trying to attach to the console
using virsh.
I have tried to use 'xm destroy' to kill the guest the hard way but it
has no effect - the state remains unchanged. I have also tried this on a
few different guest installations with the same result. A thing worth
noting is that the output from 'xm list --long' differs, I've attached
the out put pre boot, after boot and after shutdown. Note how all the
devices in the guests are missing after shutdown.
Both the hosts and the guests are fedora 8 installations.
Regards,
Christian Axelsson
smiler(a)lanil.mine.nu
[?1034h(domain
(domid 0)
(on_crash restart)
(uuid 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000)
(bootloader_args )
(vcpus 2)
(name Domain-0)
(on_poweroff destroy)
(on_reboot restart)
(bootloader )
(maxmem 16777215)
(memory 1491)
(shadow_memory 0)
(cpu_weight 256)
(cpu_cap 0)
(features )
(on_xend_start ignore)
(on_xend_stop ignore)
(cpu_time 1644.84369405)
(online_vcpus 2)
(image (linux (kernel )))
(status 2)
(state r-----)
)
(domain
(domid 2)
(on_crash restart)
(uuid a7638797-e237-3891-5e64-390f828238ca)
(bootloader_args )
(vcpus 1)
(name minimal)
(on_poweroff destroy)
(on_reboot restart)
(bootloader /usr/bin/pygrub)
(maxmem 512)
(memory 512)
(shadow_memory 0)
(cpu_weight 256)
(cpu_cap 0)
(features )
(on_xend_start ignore)
(on_xend_stop ignore)
(start_time 1206360333.14)
(cpu_time 9.753408915)
(online_vcpus 1)
(image
(linux
(kernel )
(notes
(FEATURES
'writable_page_tables|writable_descriptor_tables|auto_translated_physmap|pae_pgdir_above_4gb|supervisor_mode_kernel'
)
(VIRT_BASE 18446744071562067968)
(GUEST_VERSION 2.6)
(PADDR_OFFSET 18446744071562067968)
(GUEST_OS linux)
(HYPERCALL_PAGE 18446744071564189696)
(LOADER generic)
(SUSPEND_CANCEL 1)
(ENTRY 18446744071564165120)
(XEN_VERSION xen-3.0)
)
)
)
(status 2)
(state -b----)
(store_mfn 196619)
(console_mfn 196618)
(device
(vif
(bridge xenbr0)
(mac 00:16:3e:3f:93:b8)
(script vif-bridge)
(uuid 94afd732-920b-2e0b-b3d5-e79174754a80)
(backend 0)
)
)
(device
(vbd
(uname file:/var/lib/xen/images/minimal.img)
(uuid 8f4f4da3-5f8a-3fee-28e8-41dc49e876cd)
(mode w)
(dev xvda:disk)
(backend 0)
(bootable 1)
)
)
(device
(console
(protocol vt100)
(location 2)
(uuid 0046f2d3-058b-d524-9273-f1dac2ca950b)
)
)
)
[?1034h(domain
(domid 0)
(on_crash restart)
(uuid 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000)
(bootloader_args )
(vcpus 2)
(name Domain-0)
(on_poweroff destroy)
(on_reboot restart)
(bootloader )
(maxmem 16777215)
(memory 1491)
(shadow_memory 0)
(cpu_weight 256)
(cpu_cap 0)
(features )
(on_xend_start ignore)
(on_xend_stop ignore)
(cpu_time 1648.92600832)
(online_vcpus 2)
(image (linux (kernel )))
(status 2)
(state r-----)
)
(domain
(domid 2)
(on_crash restart)
(uuid a7638797-e237-3891-5e64-390f828238ca)
(bootloader_args )
(vcpus 1)
(name minimal)
(on_poweroff destroy)
(on_reboot restart)
(bootloader /usr/bin/pygrub)
(maxmem 512)
(memory 512)
(shadow_memory 0)
(cpu_weight 256)
(cpu_cap 0)
(features )
(on_xend_start ignore)
(on_xend_stop ignore)
(start_time 1206360333.14)
(cpu_time 13.048743365)
(online_vcpus 1)
(image
(linux
(kernel )
(notes
(FEATURES
'writable_page_tables|writable_descriptor_tables|auto_translated_physmap|pae_pgdir_above_4gb|supervisor_mode_kernel'
)
(VIRT_BASE 18446744071562067968)
(GUEST_VERSION 2.6)
(PADDR_OFFSET 18446744071562067968)
(GUEST_OS linux)
(HYPERCALL_PAGE 18446744071564189696)
(LOADER generic)
(SUSPEND_CANCEL 1)
(ENTRY 18446744071564165120)
(XEN_VERSION xen-3.0)
)
)
)
(status 0)
(state ---s-d)
(store_mfn 196619)
(console_mfn 196618)
)
[?1034h(domain
(domid 0)
(on_crash restart)
(uuid 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000)
(bootloader_args )
(vcpus 2)
(name Domain-0)
(on_poweroff destroy)
(on_reboot restart)
(bootloader )
(maxmem 16777215)
(memory 1491)
(shadow_memory 0)
(cpu_weight 256)
(cpu_cap 0)
(features )
(on_xend_start ignore)
(on_xend_stop ignore)
(cpu_time 1635.21430615)
(online_vcpus 2)
(image (linux (kernel )))
(status 2)
(state r-----)
)
(domain
(on_crash restart)
(uuid a7638797-e237-3891-5e64-390f828238ca)
(bootloader_args )
(vcpus 1)
(name minimal)
(on_poweroff destroy)
(on_reboot restart)
(bootloader /usr/bin/pygrub)
(maxmem 512)
(memory 512)
(shadow_memory 0)
(cpu_weight 256)
(cpu_cap 0)
(features )
(on_xend_start ignore)
(on_xend_stop ignore)
(start_time 1206309092.82)
(cpu_time 0.0)
(image
(linux
(kernel )
(notes
(FEATURES
'writable_page_tables|writable_descriptor_tables|auto_translated_physmap|pae_pgdir_above_4gb|supervisor_mode_kernel'
)
(VIRT_BASE 18446744071562067968)
(GUEST_VERSION 2.6)
(PADDR_OFFSET 18446744071562067968)
(GUEST_OS linux)
(HYPERCALL_PAGE 18446744071564189696)
(LOADER generic)
(SUSPEND_CANCEL 1)
(ENTRY 18446744071564165120)
(XEN_VERSION xen-3.0)
)
)
)
(status 0)
(device
(vif
(bridge xenbr0)
(mac 00:16:3e:3f:93:b8)
(backend 0)
(uuid 94afd732-920b-2e0b-b3d5-e79174754a80)
(script vif-bridge)
)
)
(device
(vbd
(uuid 8f4f4da3-5f8a-3fee-28e8-41dc49e876cd)
(bootable 1)
(driver paravirtualised)
(dev xvda:disk)
(uname file:/var/lib/xen/images/minimal.img)
(mode w)
(backend 0)
)
)
(device
(console
(protocol vt100)
(location 2)
(uuid 0046f2d3-058b-d524-9273-f1dac2ca950b)
)
)
)
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more details at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429403#c7
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Source and RPMs: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-what/files/
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--
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[Xen-devel] ANNOUNCE: Xen 3.3.0 released!
by Pasi Kärkkäinen
----- Forwarded message from Keir Fraser <keir.fraser(a)eu.citrix.com> -----
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser(a)eu.citrix.com>
To: "xen-devel(a)lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel(a)lists.xensource.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:53:35 +0100
Subject: [Xen-devel] ANNOUNCE: Xen 3.3.0 released!
Folks,
We're pleased to announce the official release of Xen 3.3.0!
This is a major new release with a host of new features including:
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- HVM framebuffer optimisations: scan for framebuffer updates more
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- Device passthrough enhancements
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- New qemu merge with upstream development
- Many other changes in both x86 and IA64 ports
You can get the source using mercurial from:
http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.3-testing.hg
A pre-prepared source tarball is available from:
http://www.xen.org/download/
(please ignore the 'Xen 3.2' graphic used in the download listing :-).
Cheers,
Keir (on behalf of the whole Xen dev team)
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File "/usr/sbin/yum-updatesd", line 39, in <module>
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