Bug 673496

Summary: DOMU-HVM FULLVIRT Guest issue
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Stefan Assmann <sassmann>
Component: kernelAssignee: Stefan Assmann <sassmann>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version: 6.1CC: jzheng, mjenner, pbunyan
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Fixed In Version: kernel-2.6.32-112.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Stefan Assmann 2011-01-28 13:32:04 UTC
Description of problem:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=614455 caused a problem where HVM fullvirt RHEL6.1 guest wouldn't boot anymore in kernel -103.

Comment 2 Stefan Assmann 2011-01-28 13:37:32 UTC
Created attachment 475799 [details]
xen.patch

Patch to revert the allocation method back to original one.

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2011-01-28 13:50:38 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion
in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has 
requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed 
products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release.

Comment 5 RHEL Program Management 2011-01-28 14:10:46 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion
in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has 
requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed 
products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release.

Comment 6 PaulB 2011-01-28 23:20:52 UTC
Stefan,
Results from testing kernel 2.6.32-105.el6.xenfix_01 were successful.

See the following jobs:
[a] GuestCheck: AMD Kernel: 2.6.32-105.el6.xenfix_01 
    https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/jobs/49624


[b] GuestCheck: INTEL Kernel: 2.6.32-105.el6.xenfix_01 
    https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/jobs/49627

Best,
-pbunyan

Comment 7 Aristeu Rozanski 2011-02-03 19:06:40 UTC
Patch(es) available on kernel-2.6.32-112.el6

Comment 12 Jinxin Zheng 2011-04-07 08:18:44 UTC
Since the -128 kernel hvm can successfully boot, this should be VERIFIED now.

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-23 20:39:03 UTC
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-2011-0542.html