Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen on Centos 5.5 vs 5.3 and stability issues

2010-11-01 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 02:07:13PM +1300, Steven Ellis wrote: Had a try at the weekend but I didn't have a female adapter handy to bring up the serial console. I did manage to try out some Centos 5.4 kernels, all of which worked in the Dom0 environment. I'm now running *

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen on Centos 5.5 vs 5.3 and stability issues

2010-10-31 Thread Steven Ellis
Had a try at the weekend but I didn't have a female adapter handy to bring up the serial console. I did manage to try out some Centos 5.4 kernels, all of which worked in the Dom0 environment. I'm now running * 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5xen Also I upgraded a Centos 5.3 DomU to 5.5 with no issues, and

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen on Centos 5.5 vs 5.3 and stability issues

2010-10-28 Thread compdoc
Do you use sata drives? Does your system support AHCI, and is that enabled in the bios? ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen on Centos 5.5 vs 5.3 and stability issues

2010-10-28 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 01:56:33PM +1300, Steven Ellis wrote: I've recently upgraded a Centos 5.3 machine to Centos 5.5. The hardware isn't HVM capabile so I'm only running para-virt guests. Using a vanilla i386 kernel boots without, but the newer kernel-xen locks up the Dom0

[CentOS-virt] Xen on Centos 5.5 vs 5.3 and stability issues

2010-10-27 Thread Steven Ellis
I've recently upgraded a Centos 5.3 machine to Centos 5.5. The hardware isn't HVM capabile so I'm only running para-virt guests. Using a vanilla i386 kernel boots without, but the newer kernel-xen locks up the Dom0 after a couple of minute. I'm only booting into single user mode for these

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen on Centos 5.5 vs 5.3 and stability issues

2010-10-27 Thread Eric Searcy
Curious, RAID1 is soft/md, fakeraid or hardware? Also, are you using pygrub and then what is the kernel for the guests, or are you using a kernel from the host/which one? (I'm using almost-latest, ie last week, kernel on host and guest (pygrub) on hardware raid, haven't had any issues to

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen on Centos 5.5 vs 5.3 and stability issues

2010-10-27 Thread Steven Ellis
Raid 1 is mdadm software raid Disk layout on /dev/hd[ab] is md0 = /boot md2 = swap md1 = LVM The root filesystem for dom0 is in LVM along with the root and swap file systems for a number of guests I currently use pygrub to boot most of the guests. As I said the guests