[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#617421: Bug#617421: Bug#617421: xen-hypervisor-4.0-i386: can't migrate (or save/resume) lenny guests: BUG: recent printk recursion

[Ian Campbell]

On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 11:51 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Ian Campbell <ijc at hellion.org.uk> writes:
> 
> > The guest visible hypervisor ABI has been stable since (IIRC) Xen 3.0.0
> > and Xen upstream maintains backwards compatibility for guest visible
> > interfaces -- if an old guest was broken by a hypervisor update then
> > this is most likely a bug.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> > On the other hand, the Xen enabled kernel in Lenny turned out to be a
> > bit of a disaster and I could well imagine that the new hypervisor/tools
> > are simply exposing a prexisting bug in that kernel.
> 
> It wasn't entirely explicit, but I don't use (and haven't ever used) the
> Xen-enabled lenny kernel: it was way too unstable for production use
> from the very beginning.  The guests I'm talking about run the latest
> linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem kernel (version 2.6.26-26lenny2),
> sporting upstream Xen domU support, and no dom0 support.

Did pvops in 2.6.26 support migration? I must admit I thought it didn't
yet.

Ian.

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Ian Campbell

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