Problem: restoring virtual machine with kernel 2.6.32-34

[Stefan Bader]

On 25.10.2011 17:51, Michał 'Orr' Daszkowski wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm not sure if this is good email address for this, but if not,
> please forward this to proper person(s). :)
> 
> I have serious problem with virtual machines (xen domU) and kernel
> 2.6.32-34. After saving such guest (for example during shutdown) and
> restoring it starts but seems to be frozen. Sometimes it's completely
> frozen and sometimes only interactive commands are not working. It
> means system daemons are working and I'm able to execute remote
> commands as a parameter for ssh, but cannot log in using console or
> ssh.
> 
> I'm sure that this problem is related to kernel 2.6.32-34, because it
> happened after upgrade to this version. If I set guest to use
> 2.6.32-33 kernel, after save/restore all is OK.
> 
> My dom0 is Debian 6.0.2, xen 4.0.1-2 and guest machines are Ubuntu
> 10.04 LTS. All systems are x86_64.
> 
Are the guest machines running in PVM or HVM mode? What install base are they
(desktop, server)? It would be good if you could open a ubuntu bug report and
let us know the bug number.

-Stefan

> If you need any additional information or want me to do some tests,
> just tell me, because I want to know what is useful for you. :)
> 
> I hope that you can easily find the cause of my problems and give me
> the solution or workaround, because this situation is really
> uncomfortable for me. :(
> 
> Best regards,
> Michal 'Orr' Daszkowski
> 
> PS Forgive me my English, please. I know it's very far from fluent but
> I hope that is understandable. :)
>