[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#608715: Recent hardware components render the xen-hyervisor unusable, fails completeley to boot due to kernel panic

[Arno Toell]

Package: xen-hypervisor-4.0-amd64
Version: 4.0.1-1
Severity: grave
Tags: squeeze upstream

Some newer hardware components (it is unclear what exactly causes the issue) render xen-hyervisor unusable as it 
crashes immediately after boot for the Debian out-of-box configuration. This results in a system rebooting all over 
again if the hypervisor is choosen as default stanza to be booted by grub which is particular severe as Xen is most
likely used on remote boxes. 

This bug report is for reference only as I already reported the issue upstream. See
* http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1698
* http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-12/msg00307.html
* http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-12/msg01280.html

There is no solution known, as workaround passing 'dom0_mem=max:4GB' works around the issue, although I'm unsure about
potential side effects. 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

xen-hypervisor-4.0-amd64 depends on no packages.

Versions of packages xen-hypervisor-4.0-amd64 recommends:
ii  xen-utils-4.0                 4.0.1-1    XEN administrative tools

Versions of packages xen-hypervisor-4.0-amd64 suggests:
pn  xen-docs-4.0                  <none>     (no description available)

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