From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefano Stabellini Subject: Re: Fatal crash on xen4.2 HVM + qemu-xen dm + NFS Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:00:08 +0000 Message-ID: References: <5B4525F296F6ABEB38B0E614@nimrod.local> <50CEFDA602000078000B0B11@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <3B1D0701EAEA6532CEA91EA0@Ximines.local> <031B4703B204494BD5204941@Ximines.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Stefano Stabellini Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Xen Devel , Jan Beulich , Alex Bligh , Ian Campbell List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, Alex Bligh wrote: > > Stefano, > > > > --On 16 January 2013 17:39:59 +0000 Stefano Stabellini > > wrote: > > > > > Let me elaborate on this: the guest is a PV on HVM guest, so at the very > > > least the bootloader is going to use the emulated IDE interface to grab > > > Xen and the kernel. > > > After that the kernel should use the PV disk interface straight away (I > > > actually downloaded the image and tried it myself: it is using the PV > > > disk interface indeed). > > > > Indeed. Thanks for taking the time to download the image and try it. > > Did you see the bug? (using the snapshot and the backing file) > > I don't, but I don't have NFS setup at the moment :) > BTW what version of NFS are you using? Do you have a chance to try NFSv4? According to the original thread, it doesn't have that problem.