[Fedora-xen] Re: XEN-3.0.3 on RHEL-5, fully virtualized guest of RH72 won't start after install finishes.

[Ben Russo <ben muppethouse com>]

Ben Russo wrote:
> Ben Russo wrote:
> > installed FULLY VIRTUALIZED
> > RH-72 from original Red Hat 7.2 CD's
> > this went fine 

> > type "xm create -c /etc/xen/rh72-test",
> > I find out that the new guest gets a kernel panic on bootup
> > after the bootup menu

> I found out that if I add the kernel option "nomxt" to the
> grub.conf kernel command for the DomU it gets much farther
> in the boot process.
>
> Now I get this on the console:
>
>  <snip> console hangs at scanning QEMU HARDDISK  ide drive </snip>
>
>
> Then it hangs right there.

I give up.  Looks like running fully virtualized old versions
of Linux just isn't going to work smoothly.
I'm going to use VMware ESX server instead.