[Fedora-xen] problems with f9 guest on f8 dom0

[Dale Bewley]

----- "Matt Cowan" <cowan at bnl.gov> wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, Fred Brier wrote:
> > Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] problems with f9 guest on f8 dom0
> >
> > I am using 32 bit and have the same issue you were.  Did you ever
> solve the
> > problem?  If so, how?  Or should I just run Fedora 8 domU(s).  Thank
> you.
> 
> Haven't solved it yet, and have been totally unable to usefully run f9
> domU on an f8 dom0.
> 
> We can get an f9 domU to install and run, but once it's shutdown,
> dom0
> needs a reboot for virt-install or virt-manager to function again,
> which is basically useless except for testing.  'xm' seems to
> continue
> funtioning fine.  Just tried again last week after installing the
> latest
> round of xen related updates... still no luck.
> 
> Gonna try 64bit next, and if that doesn't work, centos dom0 :(
> Is *anyone* out there running 32bit f8 dom0 and f9 domU without
> problems?!
> -matt

I'm continuing to run 64b F8 dom0 and F9 domU without any need to reboot the dom0 after bouncing a domU, but I do have to restart xend. My problem also affects F8 domUs. I've noticed, it seems, if I use xm commands to shutdown and startup then virt-manager retains track of the domU. 

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453276

The last 2 libvirt updates have not been built for F8, so I'm not sure if there is any progress on the issue.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-September/msg00401.html

I'm not interested in switching to CentOS or RHEL until I'm "forced" by circumstances or rationality. I'd prefer to support Fedora. Theoretically F8 still gets updates until around Dec, 25 2008 right now.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Schedule#Fedora_10_Release_Schedule

There is a lot of impressive work going on with libvirt and virt in general from RedHat/Fedora, so I'm trying to be patient. I have a tenable workaround for now. Fingers crossed for F10.
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Dale Bewley - Unix Administrator - Shields Library - UC Davis
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