Bug 439501

Summary:	Xen Guest Can Crash Host
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jonathan Steffan <jonathansteffan>
Component:	kvm	Assignee:	Glauber Costa <gcosta>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	8	CC:	berrange, clalance
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Description Jonathan Steffan 2008-03-28 20:17:55 UTC

Description of problem:
Warning: Yes, you don't do this in production. I'm just playing around.

I have my Fedora 8 x86_64 desktop running 2.6.24.3-50.fc8.

I have provisioned an EL5 x86_64 KVM guest that is running the EL5 Xen kernel
(the latest.) Everything works as expected.

When I go to provision an i386 Xen guest (yes, on the KVM virtual machine) the
Fedora 8 host crashes. If the Xen guest is x86_64, everything works as expected.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kvm-60-3.fc8

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Provision a KVM (full virt) x86_64 EL5 guest running a Xen hypervisor
2. Try to power on a para virt x86 guest.
  
Actual results:
Boom.

Expected results:
Cheers!

Additional info:
Yes, running Xen inside a KVM guest is poor. This is just for testing/learning.
However, Warren has asked I report the metal host locking.

Comment 1 Daniel Berrangé 2008-03-28 20:23:01 UTC

What kernel version on the host ?

The KVM kernel modules in F8 are pretty old at this point in time. If you're
able to, it'd be worth trying the latest  F9 rawhide kernel RPM & seeing if it
also crashes.

Comment 2 Jonathan Steffan 2008-03-28 20:53:43 UTC

2.6.24.3-50.fc8 is running on the host (the actual hardware.) If I find a moment
where I don't need my machine running, I'll try the latest rawhide kernel.

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 10:17:54 UTC

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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 06:16:26 UTC

Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is 
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