[fedora-virt] unable to boot rhel5 guest with 3.19.7-200.fc21.x86_64

[Cole Robinson]

On 05/23/2015 07:40 PM, Reartes Guillermo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Since a couple of days i noticed that i cannot boot a rhel5 guest on
> my F21 machine.
> Today i was able to test it properly by rebooting a couble of times.
> There seems to
> be some issue with kernel 3.19.7-200.fc21.x86_64
> 
> Did anybody experienced something similar?
> 
> HOST: FEDORA: 21
>       CPU: AMD FX(tm)-6100
> 
> * With KERNEL: 3.19.7-200.fc21.x86_64
>   GUEST
>    * RHEL5: 5.11
>    * KERNEL: 2.6.18-404-el5 (also tried: 2.6.18-400.1.1.el5, 2.6.18-398.el5 )
> 
>    * RESULT: Guest HANGS, with 100% vcpu usage after grub (no nash...
> kernel alive, etc)
> 
>    * If i try booting from the RHEL5 5.11 release iso image (cdrom),
> it works...
> 
> 
> * With KERNEL: 3.19.5-200.fc21.x86_64
>   GUEST
>    * RHEL5: 5.11
>    * KERNEL: 2.6.18-404-el5 (also tried: 2.6.18-400.1.1.el5, 2.6.18-398.el5 )
> 
>    * RESULT: Guest boots normally. No known issues. (also booting the
> iso also works)
> 
> 

My AMD machines are all running F22 so I haven't tested. But on the busted
kernel can you see if there's any errors after starting the VM in dmesg, or
any errors printed in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/$vmname.log (or qemu stderr if not
using libvirt)

- Cole