Description of problem: Intel and Fujitsu are reporting that the RHEL5 GA kernel can't create fully virtualized ia64 domains. It seems to be due to the xen-shadow-enable.patch in the xen package; removing that patch lets them boot their guests again. I'll attach a xend.log from the IT.
Created attachment 148912 [details] Output from xend when trying to create ia64 fully virtualized guest
This effectively kills the xen/ia64 tech preview. We need to fix it before 5.0-GA
We CANNOT wait for this to be fixed in U1. This MUST be fixed prior to 5.0 GA.
Simply removing the 'xen-shadow-enable.patch' from the Xen package will break i686 & x86_64 HVM guests - causing the 'Cannot allocate memory' bug to return. So someone needs to propose an alternate fix which either makes that patch a no-op on ia64, or provide an add-on patch to explicitly address the ia64 problem without impacting other archs.
(In reply to comment #4) > Simply removing the 'xen-shadow-enable.patch' from the Xen package will break > i686 & x86_64 HVM guests - causing the 'Cannot allocate memory' bug to return. > So someone needs to propose an alternate fix which either makes that patch a > no-op on ia64, or provide an add-on patch to explicitly address the ia64 problem > without impacting other archs. > The quick(est) fix is to #ifdef __ia64__ the code. Ugly, but at least we'll meet the day0 deadline.
Created attachment 148961 [details] Minimal fix for ia64 HVM "Invalid Argument"
This bugzilla has Keywords: Regression. Since no regressions are allowed between releases, it is also being marked as a blocker for this release. Please resolve ASAP.
in xen-3.0.3-26.el5
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