[Xen-devel] problem in booting hvm guest on x86_64 dual-core VT machine

["sanjay kushwaha" <sanjay.kushwaha@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,
I am working with the Xen changeset 11437. I am trying to boot a RHEL
2.6.9-22.EL (non-smp) kernel into a guest VM on this dual-core 64 bit
machine (dom0 is running smp 2.6.16.13 kernel) . But the guest VM
doesn't boot. apparently it gets stuck during the kernel boot process.
I get the grub menu and when I select the specified kernel I get the
following message

 Booting 'RHEL'

root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.EL ro root=/dev/hda1 console=ttyS0,115200 console
=tty0 acpi=off noapic nolapic
  [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x1af739]


I don;t get any output after the above message. The boot process gets
stuck here.
I also observe that the "xm list" command shows that the guest VM is
hogging most of the CPU cycles.

[root@vt2 ksanjay]# xm lis
Name                              ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State  Time(s)
Domain-0                           0      250     2 r-----    47.8
vm                                        1      256     1 r-----    2981.9
[root@vt2 ksanjay]#

Is anybody else experiencing this problem? Does anyone know how to fix it?
The same kernel boots fine with an older version of Xen (changeset 9379).

Thanks,
Sanjay

PS: below is the "xm info" and guest config file

[root@vt2 ksanjay]# xm info
host                   : vt2
release                : 2.6.16.13-xen
version                : #1 SMP Sun Sep 10 15:07:03 EDT 2006
machine                : x86_64
nr_cpus                : 2
nr_nodes               : 1
sockets_per_node       : 1
cores_per_socket       : 2
threads_per_core       : 1
cpu_mhz                : 2999
hw_caps                :
bfebfbff:20100800:00000000:00000180:0000e4f5:00000000:00000001
total_memory           : 1011
free_memory            : 457
xen_major              : 3
xen_minor              : 0
xen_extra              : -unstable
xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_64 hvm-3.0-x86_32 hvm-3.0-x86_32p
hvm-3.0-x86_64
xen_pagesize           : 4096
platform_params        : virt_start=0xffff800000000000
xen_changeset          : Fri Sep  8 18:46:54 2006 -0700 11437:7acaba46e15e
cc_compiler            : gcc version 3.4.5 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2)
cc_compile_by          : root
cc_compile_domain      :
cc_compile_date        : Mon Sep 11 15:08:19 EDT 2006
xend_config_format     : 2
[root@vt2 ksanjay]#

[root@vt2 ksanjay]# cat xmexample.hvm
#  -*- mode: python; -*-
#============================================================================
# Python configuration setup for 'xm create'.
# This script sets the parameters used when a domain is created using
'xm create'.
# You use a separate script for each domain you want to create, or
# you can set the parameters for the domain on the xm command line.
#============================================================================

import os, re
arch = os.uname()[4]
if re.search('64', arch):
   arch_libdir = 'lib64'
else:
   arch_libdir = 'lib'

#----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Kernel image file.
kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"

# The domain build function. HVM domain uses 'hvm'.
builder='hvm'

# Initial memory allocation (in megabytes) for the new domain.
#
# WARNING: Creating a domain with insufficient memory may cause out of
#          memory errors. The domain needs enough memory to boot kernel
#          and modules. Allocating less than 32MBs is not recommended.
memory = 256

# Shadow pagetable memory for the domain, in MB.
# Should be at least 2KB per MB of domain memory, plus a few MB per vcpu.
shadow_memory = 8

# A name for your domain. All domains must have different names.
name = "vm"

# 128-bit UUID for the domain.  The default behavior is to generate a new UUID
# on each call to 'xm create'.
#uuid = "06ed00fe-1162-4fc4-b5d8-11993ee4a8b9"

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# the number of cpus guest platform has, default=1
vcpus=1

# enable/disable HVM guest PAE, default=0 (disabled)
#pae=0

# enable/disable HVM guest ACPI, default=0 (disabled)
acpi=0

# enable/disable HVM guest APIC, default=0 (disabled)
apic=0

vif = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr0' ]

disk = [ 'file:/home/ksanjay/test-2030_16_63.img,ioemu:hda,w' ]
device_model = '/usr/' + arch_libdir + '/xen/bin/qemu-dm'

sdl=0

vnc=0

nographic=0

stdvga=0

serial='pty'

[root@vt2 ksanjay]#


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http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~ksanjay/

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