Bug 449945
| Summary: | Guest OS install causes host machine to crash | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Chris Lalancette <clalance> |
| Component: | kernel-xen | Assignee: | Chris Lalancette <clalance> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Martin Jenner <mjenner> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | urgent | ||
| Version: | 5.3 | CC: | anton, bburns, ddomingo, dhoward, dwa, jplans, jwest, rlerch, tao, xen-maint |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | ZStream |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: |
Using Virtualization on a machine with a large number of CPUs may have caused the hypervisor to crash during guest installation. In this update, this issue has been resolved.
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Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2009-01-20 19:35:04 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Embargoed: | |||
| Bug Depends On: | 443779 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 449772, 454962, 455768 | ||
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Comment 1
RHEL Program Management
2008-06-09 21:57:37 UTC
in kernel-2.6.18-101.el5 You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5 This bug has been marked for inclusion in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 Release Notes. To aid in the development of relevant and accurate release notes, please fill out the "Release Notes" field above with the following 4 pieces of information: Cause: What actions or circumstances cause this bug to present. Consequence: What happens when the bug presents. Fix: What was done to fix the bug. Result: What now happens when the actions or circumstances above occur. (NB: this is not the same as 'the bug doesn't present anymore') Release note added. If any revisions are required, please set the "requires_release_notes" flag to "?" and edit the "Release Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. New Contents: When running RHEL-5 Virtualization on a machine with a large number of cores, it is possible for the hypervisor to crash during guest installation. This happens because of a flaw during SMP bootup. This was fixed by removing the offending code, since it wasn't really being used anyway. It is now possible to reliably do guest installs on machines with a large number of cores. Release note updated. If any revisions are required, please set the "requires_release_notes" flag to "?" and edit the "Release Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. Diffed Contents: @@ -1,3 +1 @@ -When running RHEL-5 Virtualization on a machine with a large number of cores, it is possible for the hypervisor to crash during guest installation. This happens because of a flaw during SMP bootup. +Using Virtualization on a machine with a large number of CPUs may have caused the hypervisor to crash during guest installation. In this update, this issue has been resolved.- -This was fixed by removing the offending code, since it wasn't really being used anyway. It is now possible to reliably do guest installs on machines with a large number of cores. An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0225.html |