After 7 days of testing, I have found a potential instability with Kernel-xen-2.6.20.2925 on FC6. Symptom: machine spontaneously rebooted upon launch of tvtime. Previous launches of tvtime, 10+, were successful. After reboot system was stable again (tvtime launched fine) Nothing useful in xend.log, xend.debug.log, log/messages. Environment: FC6, Intel Cor2, Hauppauge WinTV PCI, 4G Ram, WinXP Pro guest Any suggestions on how to capture useful information if this happens again? John Casey -----Original Message----- From: John Casey [mailto:john.a@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 11:32 AM To: 'Daniel P. Berrange' Cc: 'fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx' Subject: RE: Status of Xen on FC6 2.6.20.x - feedback I've been using Kernel-xen-2.6.20.2925 now since its release on the 21st on an FC6 Intel Core2 machine, 4GB Ram, Sata Disks, tv card. So far it seems that all of the previous instability issues have been addressed. I am also running a WinXp pro guest, running since the 21st, and have had no instability issues. Thanks guys. John Casey -----Original Message----- From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berrange@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 10:02 AM To: John Casey Cc: fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Status of Xen on FC6 2.6.20.x On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 05:55:47PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:41:26AM -0700, John Casey wrote: > > Can someone tell me or give me a pointer to the status of Xen on FC6 kernel > > 2.6.20.x? I've read about and experienced some serious instability on > > 2.6.20.x and was wondering when a stable release was expected. All of the > > threads I've read say to use Xen on 2.6.18, but since Xen is not a critical > > requirement for me, I'd like to wait until it comes out on 2.6.20 (or FC7) > > which ever comes first. > > F7 is arriving real soon now and will be Xen 3.1.0 + 2.6.20 kernel. This > kernel will fix the 3 core kernel-xen bugs that are being experianced by > most people (one 32-bit data corruption issue, 2 SMP bugs). I should point out, this is all actually in rawhide right now.... kernel-xen-2.6.20-2925.8.fc7 + xen-3.1.0-0.rc7.2.fc7 And since rawhide is in deep freeze now it is in pretty good shape. This is the rc7 pre-release, and we'll update to the GA xen release very shortly after Fedora 7 is released. There's no major changes missing there really. > We're going to apply these same patches to the FC6 kernel-xen which should > also resolve the stability issues seen on the FC6 2.6.20 builds. I don't > have an exact timeframe for this, but it should be in updates-testing at > least fairly soon. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
