[Fedora-xen] Re: XEN-3.0.3 on RHEL-5, fully virtualized guest of RH72 won't start after install finishes.

Ben Russo ben at muppethouse.com
Fri Jun 15 14:44:51 UTC 2007


Ben Russo wrote:
> Ben Russo wrote:
>> installed FULLY VIRTUALIZED
>> RH-72 from original Red Hat 7.2 CD's
>> this went fine 

>> type "xm create -c /etc/xen/rh72-test",
>> I find out that the new guest gets a kernel panic on bootup
>> after the bootup menu

> I found out that if I add the kernel option "nomxt" to the
> grub.conf kernel command for the DomU it gets much farther
> in the boot process.
>
> Now I get this on the console:
> 
>  <snip> console hangs at scanning QEMU HARDDISK  ide drive </snip>
> 
> 
> Then it hangs right there.

I give up.  Looks like running fully virtualized old versions
of Linux just isn't going to work smoothly.
I'm going to use VMware ESX server instead.




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