On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 01:33:37PM +0100, M A Young wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>> xendom0-105/xen-4.0.0 crashes and burns badly with a pv32fc12 domU (so badly
>> the keyboard lights blink in pain. Reset button required. Lots and lots of
>> hypervisorish stuff all over the screen. Very likely the cause is noted in
>> there somewhere).
>>
>
> Please set up a serial console so you can capture the full boot and error/crash
messages:
>
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenSerialConsole
>
> A couple of questions:
>
> - Do you have "nomodeset" parameter for the dom0 kernel?
> - Did you limit dom0 memory to, say, 1024 MB ?
This last point could be an issue as I think the balloon driver has
problems in the current kernel. I can certainly get a crash on a low
memory machine.
Yeah, it's good to give a fixed amount of memory for dom0 and remove the need
for dom0 ballooning when creating new vms.
-- Pasi