Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:09:56 +0200 | From | Olaf Hering <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: add quirk for Xen 3.4 and shutdown watches. |
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On Wed, Oct 10, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> The commit 254d1a3f02ebc10ccc6e4903394d8d3f484f715e, titled > "xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: shutdown watches from old kernel" assumes that the > XenBus backend can deal with reading of values from: > "control/platform-feature-xs_reset_watches": > > ... a patch for xenstored is required so that it > accepts the XS_RESET_WATCHES request from a client (see changeset > 23839:42a45baf037d in xen-unstable.hg). Without the patch for xenstored > the registration of watches will fail and some features of a PVonHVM > guest are not available. The guest is still able to boot, but repeated > kexec boots will fail." > > Sadly this is not true when using a Xen 3.4 hypervisor and booting a PVHVM > guest. We end up hanging at:
This is sad. So far I have not seen reports like that with a sles11sp1 or sles11sp2 guest. Thats either because noone uses Xen 3.4+sles11 (or recent openSuSE) HVM guests, or because it happens to work with that combination.
If the patch solves the issue:
Acked-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Olaf
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