[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#636594: xen: VM restarting too fast. Refusing to restart to avoid loops.

rush rush1503 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 4 12:09:41 UTC 2011


Package: xen-hypervisor-4.1-amd64
Version: 4.1.1-1
Severity: normal
File: xen
Tags: sid

I can't start new domain. xend logs writes

[2011-08-04 14:24:29 1905] INFO (XendDomainInfo:169) Recreating domain 18394, UUID 879e3aba-7d21-4767-80e9-851c562ee8e6. at /local/domain/18394
[2011-08-04 14:24:29 1905] INFO (XendDomainInfo:2078) Domain has shutdown: name=windows_2008 id=18394 reason=reboot.
[2011-08-04 14:24:29 1905] ERROR (XendDomainInfo:2195) VM windows_2008 restarting too fast (Elapsed time: 0.297588 seconds). Refusing to restart to avoid loops.

Domain config is 

arch='i686'
kernel = "/usr/lib/xen-default/boot/hvmloader"
builder='hvm'
memory = 768
shadow_memory = 10
name = "windows_2008"
pae=1
acpi=1
apic=1
vif = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=eth2' ]
disk = [ 'file:/mnt/virtual/win_2008/win_2008.img,hda,w' ,'file:/mnt/virtual/win_2008/win_2008.iso,hdc:cdrom,r' ]
device_model = '/usr/lib/xen-4.1/bin/qemu-dm'
boot="d"
sdl=0
vnc=1
vncunused=1
vnclisten="0.0.0.0"
vncconsole=1
stdvga=1
serial='pty'
usbdevice='tablet'
on_poweroff = 'destroy'
on_reboot   = 'restart'
on_crash    = 'restart'

qemu-dm log is 

domid: 18294
Strip off blktap sub-type prefix to /mnt/virtual/win_2008/win_2008.img (drv 'aio')
Using file /mnt/virtual/win_2008/win_2008.img in read-write mode
Strip off blktap sub-type prefix to /mnt/virtual/win_2008/win_2008.iso (drv 'aio')
Using file /mnt/virtual/win_2008/win_2008.iso in read-only mode
Watching /local/domain/0/device-model/18294/logdirty/cmd
Watching /local/domain/0/device-model/18294/command
Watching /local/domain/18294/cpu
char device redirected to /dev/pts/5
qemu_map_cache_init nr_buckets = 10000 size 4194304
shared page at pfn feffd
buffered io page at pfn feffb
Guest uuid = fbd53dd4-0ee0-445d-a798-d47cec227d14
xen be core: xen be core: can't open gnttab device
can't open gnttab device
xen be core: xen be core: can't open gnttab device
can't open gnttab device
xen be core: xen be core: can't open gnttab device
can't open gnttab device
populating video RAM at ff000000
mapping video RAM from ff000000
Register xen platform.
Done register platform.
platform_fixed_ioport: changed ro/rw state of ROM memory area. now is rw state.
xs_read(/local/domain/0/device-model/18294/xen_extended_power_mgmt): read error
xs_read(): vncpasswd get error. /vm/fbd53dd4-0ee0-445d-a798-d47cec227d14/vncpasswd.
medium change watch on `hdc' (index: 1): aio:/mnt/virtual/win_2008/win_2008.iso
I/O request not ready: 0, ptr: 0, port: 0, data: 0, count: 0, size: 0
Log-dirty: no command yet.
vcpu-set: watch node error.
xs_read(/local/domain/18294/log-throttling): read error
qemu: ignoring not-understood drive `/local/domain/18294/log-throttling'
medium change watch on `/local/domain/18294/log-throttling' - unknown device, ignored

By the way 

$ aptitude search ~ixen
i A libxenstore3.0                                                    - Xenstore communications library for Xen
i   xen-docs-4.1                                                      - Documentation for Xen
i   xen-hypervisor-4.1-amd64                                          - Xen Hypervisor on AMD64
i   xen-linux-system-3.0.0-1-amd64                                    - Xen system with Linux 3.0.0 on 64-bit PCs (meta-package)
i   xen-tools                                                         - Tools to manage Xen virtual servers
i   xen-utils-4.1                                                     - XEN administrative tools
i A xen-utils-common                                                  - XEN administrative tools - common files
i A xenstore-utils                                                    - Xenstore utilities for Xen
$ uname -a
Linux host 3.0.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 24 02:24:44 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid

I haven't found any information about this issue in the internet.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 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-4.1-amd64 depends on no packages.

Versions of packages xen-hypervisor-4.1-amd64 recommends:
ii  xen-utils-4.1                 4.1.1-1    XEN administrative tools

Versions of packages xen-hypervisor-4.1-amd64 suggests:
ii  xen-docs-4.1                  4.1.1-1    Documentation for Xen

-- no debconf information





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