[Pkg-xen-devel] possible Xen bugs

[Ted Brenner]

Just wanted to check again if anyone is aware of a bug where Xen won't
recognize that a guest has shutdown.  Everything is working great for me
except this one thing.

Thanks for your help

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Ted Brenner <griztown at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I recently installed Squeeze, followed but Xen 4.0.  A few notes of things
> I've run into while installing.
>
> The network script part of the xend-config.sxp does not appear to work.
> Everything would boot find until I uncommented that line and tried to set it
> up per the Debian Xen wiki.  I managed to get bridging to work using the
> debian network bridge tools, brctl.
>
> Xen does not recognize when a guest has shutdown.  If I type 'xm shutdown
> guestID', it sends the command and when I open a console I can see that the
> OS has halted but Xen won't let me delete the domain and show's it's state
> as running.  When I shutdown dom0, it hangs when trying to shutdown the
> guest domains since it never realizes they have halted.  Ultimately I can
> shut them down then destroy them but this seems like a bug.
>
> This is probably not a bug but just more a question.  I'd like to expand
> the resolution for my vnc connection.  I've added "extra =
> 'xenfb.video=8,1024,768'" to my guests config file but it never recognizes
> it.  Is there another way I should be doing this?
>
> Thanks for all the hard work!  I was amazed at how it easy it was to get
> running despite the little hickups.
>
> --
> Ted Brenner
>



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Ted Brenner
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