Re: Bug#607885: marked as done (squeeze testing di beta2 amd64 installer kernel panic on xenserver vm)
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On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 14:29 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 14:16 +0200, Frank Scherrer wrote:
> > Sorry, but i don't get this.
> >
> > There was a testing release of squeeze, which did boot on XenServer
> > 5.6.0 but the now stable Version of squeeze doesn't.
>
> In #607885 I don't see any claim that a beta or release candidate of the
> installer booted on XenServer 5.6.0.
>
> > And now the bug is closed?
> >
> > I am curious because updating to XenServer 5.6.1 is not an option for
> > me, as drbd does not work out-of-the-box on 5.6.1 and we use operational
> > VMs on XenServer.
> >
> > Maybe someone could explain that to me, i don't get it.
>
> The bug was closed by Ian Campbell, who is one of the Xen upstresm
> developers. Presumably he recognised this as a bug in the Xen
> hypervisor as included in XenServer 5.6.0.
(FWIW I don't actually work on XenServer any more, I work on Xen.org
these days).
I closed the bug because PVHVM is an unsupported configuration on
XenServer and the original reporter said it worked for him on 5.6.1.
PVHVM support works fine for me on other platforms so I determined that
something was wrong with 5.6.0.
I think I had, at the time, a vague idea about some possible bugs in
mind which could have been present in XenServer and caused this sort of
issue but I don't recall what they were.
I'm sorry to say that if you cannot upgrade your XenServer installation
because you have modified the XenServer installation to add unsupported
features such as DRDB then that is not Debian's fault -- sorry. You
should contact your XenServer support representative. If I'm wrong and
DRDB is supported by XenServer then you should obviously still contact
your support representative if 5.6.1 is broken for you.
Ian.
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Ian Campbell
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