Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 249089
Addition of >1 fully virtualized fails, and worse
Last modified: 2009-06-19 19:39:32 EDT
Description of problem: After creating and running one fully virtualized domU, I create and install another on a different partition of the same disk while dom1 is running using virt-manager. Both are installed with RHEL defaults (lvm etc). The new domU installs but will not first boot either in VMM or xm. The new dom2 VM Console never gets to elilo, nor does xm console. I shut off dom1 and am unable to restart it, getting the same behaviour as dom2 now. A reboot of dom0 does not help. The domU systems are both trashed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhel5.1 prebeta How reproducible: very Steps to Reproduce: 1. see above 2. 3. Actual results: two unusable domU installations Expected results: two domU installations running at the same time. Additional info: This is on a maxed out HP rx2660 dual Itanium monecito procs, 48G ram
Further attempts at installing domUs of either type fails. In Virt-Manager I see the new domU running with 0.00% cpu, but I can't get to a console either in virt-manager or xm. All these installs were to a disk partion. Without in depth knowledge of xen, this requires a new dom0 install to get beyond this point.
Hi there. Can you attach xend.log, xend-debug.log, and /root/.virt-manager/virt-manager.log so we can have a look? Thanks, --Hugh
This machine was reinstalled with the partner-beta and I haven't seen this exact behavior since. So unfortunately, I can't send any logs for this instance. I have seen the inability to boot a newly installed domU, but not loosing both domUs at the same time (during install of domU #2). I will try to duplicate the original case on the newer partner beta and see what happens.
OK, please let us know and post logs if you can reproduce it. If not please close this bug.
Tried just now, and I had no problems installing and spinning up another hvm guest with one already running. I'm also running on an hp rx2660, albeit with only 16GB of RAM, and I'm using file-backed storage instead of lvm. I suppose I really ought to carve up my disks further (or get some more) so I can do lvm-based installs too though...
I can't reproduce this on an rx2660 with 16GB either; chuck, how about closing this one unless you can reproduce it?
I'm closing this as I haven't been able to reproduce this on later installs. I'll reopen it if I can find a recipe for doing so.