Thank you both for your response. 

That's probably the bug. I was hoping to find more answers here as after I found that bug report. 

@M.A Young
I saw that fix but wasn't sure how to apply it. I'm not really sure how to use the special builds people mention. 


Do either of you know a stable platform to run Xen on? I tried Xen Cloud Platform but found the templates limiting. I wouldn't mind going back to Xen Clout Platform if I could figure out how to run config files for installation instead of templates. I mainly want to use the hypervisor for standing up test servers and desktop environments. 

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 05:07:23PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote:
> I installed Fedora 16 and then ran:
>
> sudo yum install xen
>
> Xen installed without errors and I rebooted. In the Grub2 list I selected
> Xen 4.1.2 and then selected the option:
>
> Fedora Linux, with Xen 4.1.2 and Linux 3.3.0-4.fc16.x86_64
>
> The boot process starts (i notice that loading ramdisk is very short) and
> then shortly thereafter the boot fails and the system reboots without any
> error.

It wouldn't be this one:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804347
?
>
> I tried checking the boot log but I'm not sure I'm looking at the right
> log.
>
> The only problem I see in the boot is
>
> Started SYSV: sandbox, xguest and other apps that want to use pam_names$
> Failed to start Xenstored - daemon managing xenstore file system

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