Re: [Xen-users] domU's colliding

[James Pifer <jep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 15:12 -0400, James Pifer wrote:
> I've had this problem in the past and do not have a solution at the
> moment. I'm currently running SLES10SP1, not sure if sles10SP2 is a
> solution. Anyway...
> 
> I had a couple sles10sp2 tst domU's running. The person using them
> needed them to be sles10sp1. Since I'm running low on available RAM, I
> needed to remove the sp2 test machines to create the sp1's. 
> 
> So I delete the sp1's, then restart virt-manager to make sure the memory
> is available (another bug in my version I believe).
> 
> I copy my image file and use virt-manager to create the new domU. 
> 
> When I start the domU it crashes one of my other domU's. 
> 
> Then if I try to restart the crashed one, in this case it blue screens.
> I've also had it where I start one, and I get the console of another.
> Not sure where that conflict is at, but it doesn't appear to be the
> IDs. 
> 
> The first "xm list" is when I first created sles10sp1-tst1. Notice the
> ID's:
> xen03:/etc/xen/images # xm list
> Name                                ID   Mem VCPUs      State   Time(s)
> Domain-0                             0   240     4     r----- 2372694.3
> hpd01                              155  3586     4     -b----  14238.8
> ids                                164  2048     1     -b----  42833.6
> lp01                               162  1024     1     ------  10513.6
> rly05                              152  3072     4     r-----  97473.1
> sms01                               37  1024     1     -b----  88593.2
> vre02                              174   512     1     r-----     42.5
> vre04                              172   512     1     r-----    102.3
> vre06                              173   512     1     ------    121.2
> sles10sp1-tst1                     175   512     1     -b----      3.6
> 
> The next "xm list" is after sles10sp1-tst1 is started. Notice that vre06 is 
> now off and ID has gone away.
> xen03:/etc/xen/images # xm list
> Name                                ID   Mem VCPUs      State   Time(s)
> Domain-0                             0   240     4     r----- 2372754.0
> hpd01                              155  3586     4     -b----  14239.6
> ids                                164  2048     1     -b----  42839.6
> lp01                               162  1024     1     ------  10513.6
> rly05                              152  3072     4     -b----  97489.9
> sms01                               37  1024     1     -b----  88593.7
> vre02                              174   512     1     -b----     49.8
> vre04                              172   512     1     -b----    109.6
> vre06                                    512     0               143.0
> sles10sp1-tst1                     175   512     1     -b----     18.9
> 
> This last "xm list" is when I tried restarting vre06 and where it blue 
> screens. 
> xen03:/etc/xen/images # xm list
> Name                                ID   Mem VCPUs      State   Time(s)
> Domain-0                             0   240     4     r----- 2373093.9
> hpd01                              155  3586     4     -b----  14247.1
> ids                                164  2048     1     -b----  42877.6
> lp01                               162  1024     1     ------  10513.6
> rly05                              152  3072     4     -b----  97616.3
> sms01                               37  1024     1     -b----  88599.3
> vre02                              174   512     1     ------     90.1
> vre04                              172   512     1     ------    152.8
> vre06                              178   512     1     ------      2.1
> sles10sp1-tst1                           512     1                50.8
> 
> 
> ïAnyone ever seen this before? When I get my next xen server I'm going
> to install SP2, but until then these situations really hose things. 
> 


Anyone experienced anything like this before?

Thanks,
James


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