[Fedora-xen] Guest shutdown problems

[Christian Axelsson]

I have noticed that restarting xend fixes the states. Does that give 
anyone any ideas?

Christian Axelsson wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have a problem shutting down xen guests. Using xm shutdown guests 
> get shut down but gets stuck in state '---s-d' or sometimes '------'.
> When trying to clone a domain when in this state (my original purpose 
> of the whole operation) I'll get the error:
>
>   [root at hydra virtinst--devel]# ./virt-clone -o minimal -n new_img -f
>     /var/lib/xen/images/new_img.img
>   ERROR:  virDomainGetXMLDesc() failed failed Xen syscall
>   xenDaemonDomainDumpXMLByID failed to find this domain -490299505
>
> The same errors occurs when for example trying to attach to the 
> console using virsh.
>
> I have tried to use 'xm destroy' to kill the guest the hard way but it 
> has no effect - the state remains unchanged. I have also tried this on 
> a few different guest installations with the same result. A thing 
> worth noting is that the output from 'xm list --long' differs, I've 
> attached the out put pre boot, after boot and after shutdown. Note how 
> all the devices in the guests are missing after shutdown.
>
> Both the hosts and the guests are fedora 8 installations.
>
> Regards,
> Christian Axelsson
> smiler at lanil.mine.nu
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