X Server crashes Redhat 5 XEN -- solved!

[Stephen Carville]

The machine was ordered with a 32 bit processor but was shipped with a 
64 bit.  Once I figured that out and installed the correct XEN the 
reboot problem went away.

Stephen Carville wrote:
> I am evaluating Redhat 5 and came up against a problem with Xen.
> 
> I installed from a local CentOS 5.0 repository requesting the
> Xen virtualization when I did.  Later I installed the "regular" kernel 
> fro comparison.  Everything works pretty well under the non-Xen kernal. 
>  However, the Xen kernel and the i810 driver for X don't seem to get 
> along.  Every time I try to log out of X in Dom0 something causes the 
> machine to reboot.
> 
> I don't see any obvious messages in the log files but it may be I don't 
> know what to look for.
> 
> 1.8 Ghz Core 2 CPU
> 2 X 160G SATA drives --no RAID
> 1 X SATA DVD/RW
> 4G RAM
> Video 965Q
> Monitor Dell E173FP (1280x1024)
> 


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Stephen Carville <stephen at totalflood.com>
Systems Engineer
Land America
1.626.667.1450 X326