On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Steven Timm <t...@fnal.gov> wrote:

> For that matter--what hypervisor host are you using for the SL6 xen
> domU's--is it an SL6 guest on an SL5 hypervisor?  I thought SL6 didn't
> support being a xen host anymore.
> It seemed all of my 5 Xen DomUs running SL6 failed to boot upon rebooting.
> It looks like all of these systems failed at roughly where switchroot is
> called.
>
>>
>>> Interestingly, I could recover from this by shutting down the DomU,
>>> mounting then chrooting the DomUs filesystem and issuing:
>>>        # rpm -ivh --force kernel-2.6.32-131.2.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
>>>
>>> Not sure how widespread this issue is, but I had a 100% failure rate on
>>> Xen DomUs. The one bare metal system I updated did so with no errors.
>>>
>>
DomUs are guests.  TUV and SL6 do pv-ops, so the same kernel will run
baremetal or PV.

-JR

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