[Fedora-xen] newbie's request for info
Greetings list.
I have what might be a strange request but will ask it anyway -- but
first some background info.
I am new to Xen, having just started using it on Fedora 8 within the
last month or 2 on my server (homebuilt AMD x2 6400+ on Asus M2N-E Sli
board and 8GB DDR2-800 memory on software RAID5 1TB). Having great
sucess on the server running 3 Windows VM's (XP Pro, 2000 server with
SQL 2000, and SBS2003 server), I wanted to setup my laptop similarly for
client demo purposes. The laptop I am using is a new Dell Latitude D531
running a Turion 64x2 TL-60 with 4GB memory and 100GB drive.
My problem is this -- booting into the xen kernel works fine (well,
sound doesnt work and won't work with less than 2.6.23 kernel, but thats
no big deal). I can create a HVM using virt-manager, allocating memory,
vcpu's, etc. etc. However, upon booting the VM the entire laptop locks
up (drive activity immediately stops, keyboard and mouse are completely
unresponsive). This forces a hard shutdown. Upon starting back up the
DomU VM is not listed and when I attempt to create a new fully
virtualized VM (HVM?), I am told that virtualization support is present
in the CPU but not enabled in the BIOS (but it IS .. verified many
times). I suspect that there is a bug in the BIOS that is showing
virtualization enabled when in fact it is not.
My questions are:
1) Has anyone on this list seen the same symptoms and if so, did you
find a workaround?
2) How do I go about logging and checking what is happening when it
locks up so I can take that to Dell and file a bug report?
Thanks in advance for all pointers.
Bob J