From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefano Stabellini Subject: RE: xen 4.2 unstable; HVM; 2.6.39.3; HD/Network card error Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:42:35 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Walter Robert Ditzler Cc: "xen-users@lists.xensource.com" , "konrad.wilk@oracle.com" , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , Stefano Stabellini List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Walter Robert Ditzler wrote: > hi list members, > > i had several problems with my new xen installations, 4.2 unstable with > 2.6.39-3 and hvm guests. I can finally say that almost all problems have > been gone :-) to be honest I believe the kernels 2.6.39.1/2 and 3 were the > problem. > > this weekend I used the mainline 3.0.0 kernel with an actual version of xen > 4.2 unstable, and here we go: > > - booting of squeeze guests, ok (before hang on grub) > - booting of win 7 x64 guests, ok > - booting of win 2008r2 x64 guests, ok > > the only little problem which has left is on squeeze guests. > > the squeeze guest comes up until grub. but then it takes around 2 minutes > until the squeeze guest installation continues to start up. that would be > really nice get to be solved in the near future. Can you please add debug and loglevel=9 to the guest kernel command line options and then post the output of the guest booting? It might help to setup the guest to use the emulated serial. Also it would be helpful if you could post the output of xenstore-ls run on the host.