[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 13:01 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Ian Campbell <ijc at hellion.org.uk> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 11:51 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> >
> >> Ian Campbell <ijc at hellion.org.uk> writes:
> >> 
> >>> 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.
> 
> It apparently did... but it does not anymore. :(

I can confirm that suspend/restore/migrate support was not added to the
mainline kernel until commit 0e91398f2a5d which first appeared in
2.6.27-rc1.

Not sure what you were testing before but it wasn't 2.6.26 ;-)

Ian.
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