Fedora 11/12 kernels as xen domU

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 10:19:40AM +1100, Norman Gaywood wrote:
> Is anyone having any stability with the fedora kernels running as a Xen
> DomU. Dom0 is a Centos 5.4 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5xen kernel.
> 
> These fedora kernels seem to lockup (processes get stuck in D state)
> whenever put under any load:
> 
> kernel-2.6.30.10-105.fc11.x86_64
> kernel-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64
> kernel-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64
> 
> Yes, I tried a fedora 11 kernel on a fedora 12 system. This is the most
> stable for me.
> 
> Here are some bugzilla entries (one posted by me) that point to this
> problem:
> 
> kernel 2.6.31 processes lock up in D state
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=550724
> 
> FC12 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64 hangs under heavy disk I/O
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551552
> 

I know Jeremy is away on vacation atm, but hopefully he can comment
about these when he gets back. 

Jeremy: Have you seen this kind of domU problem reports earlier ?

-- Pasi