Description of problem: This is a familiar problem. The installations, though they might take a while, do happen, but the guests take forever to boot and are unusuable. The trace log file will be attached to this bug report. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): # uname -a Linux amd-shanghai-01.rhts.bos.redhat.com 2.6.18-117.el5xen #1 SMP Mon Sep 29 22:42:46 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux # rpm -qa | grep xen kernel-xen-2.6.18-117.el5 kmod-gnbd-xen-0.1.5-2.el5 xen-3.0.3-73.el5 xen-devel-3.0.3-73.el5 kmod-gfs-xen-0.1.26-1.el5 kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-117.el5 xen-libs-3.0.3-73.el5 xen-devel-3.0.3-73.el5 xen-libs-3.0.3-73.el5 kmod-cmirror-xen-0.1.18-1.el5 kmod-gfs2-xen-1.116-1.12.el5 How reproducible: Everytime. Steps to Reproduce: 1. install rhel 5.3 dom0 on an amd box. 2. virt-install --name rhel3.8_x86_64_hvm_guest --cdrom /var/lib/xen/images/rhel3.8_x86_64_hvm.iso --file /var/lib/xen/images/rhel3.8_x86_64_hvm_guest.img --nonsparse --hvm --ram 1024 --file-size 10 3. Actual results: The guest installs , it might take a long time. However it's unusably slow and keeps on printing these msgs: Saving random seed: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24 hda: DMA interrupt recovery hda: lost interrupt hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24 hda: DMA interrupt recovery hda: lost interrupt Expected results: Should boot up and work just fine. Additional info: I was able to reliably reproduce this on amd-shanghai-01.rhts.bos.redhat.com. You can use that machine on rhts. It did, however work just fine on an Intel box.
This is not new with 5.3, unfortunately. This has been the case for quite a while, and there hasn't been sufficient interest (yet) in debugging/fixing it. I'm going to close this one out as a dup of the older bug. Chris Lalancette *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 224482 ***