[Bug 667841] Re: some virtual machines hang upon boot with maverick kernel on lucid host

2011-01-21 Thread Darren Davison
Hi Serge, I created a new Lucid guest on a Maverick host, and now it works. As this is the first time I've tried this since commenting on the bug a few months ago, I can only assume that one of the Maverick kernel updates, or a lib-virt update in the meantime has fixed it. To be sure, I need to

[Bug 667841] Re: some virtual machines hang upon boot with maverick kernel on lucid host

2010-11-03 Thread Darren Davison
confirmed for me.. after upgrading host machine from Lucid to Maverick (Linux davisond-laptop 2.6.35-22-generic-pae #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 22:16:51 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux), none of my Lucid or Hardy VM guests will boot, each hangs after grub stage 2 with Starting... on the console while the

[Bug 667841] Re: some virtual machines hang upon boot with maverick kernel on lucid host

2010-11-03 Thread Darren Davison
Hi John, I tried restarting apparmor, and also stopping it altogether (restarting libvirt-bin each time). Had no effect on the symptoms listed above. Cheers, -- some virtual machines hang upon boot with maverick kernel on lucid host https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/667841 You received this bug

[Bug 667841] Re: some virtual machines hang upon boot with maverick kernel on lucid host

2010-11-03 Thread Darren Davison
I can now confirm this behaviour on 2 separate host machines and many guest VMs. Just to remove the possibility of it being something odd about the setup on one of the hosts. -- some virtual machines hang upon boot with maverick kernel on lucid host https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/667841 You

[Bug 667841] Re: some virtual machines hang upon boot with maverick kernel on lucid host

2010-11-03 Thread Darren Davison
I also tried a maverick guest in the maverick host. Same problem. Looks to be a serious bug in the maverick libvirt/kvm stack somewhere. Odd that it will run non-ubuntu based kernels without any problem. Anything further I can do or provide to help someone diagnose/troubleshoot this? -- some