Re: XEN 3 DomU loses network and dies

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 09:57:57AM +0100, Damian Lubosch wrote:
> Ok, the domU lost its network again. Here is what the console said after
> reboot:
> 
> ...
> xbd0 at xenbus0 id 36352: Xen Virtual Block Device Interface
> xbd0: using event channel 5
> xbd1 at xenbus0 id 36360: Xen Virtual Block Device Interface
> xbd1: using event channel 6
> xbd2 at xenbus0 id 36368: Xen Virtual Block Device Interface
> xbd2: using event channel 7
> xennet0 at xenbus0 id 0: Xen Virtual Network Interface
> xennet0: MAC address 00:16:3e:50:03:f7
> xennet0: using event channel 8
> unknown type console at xenbus0 id 0 not configured
> backend_changed backend
> 
> After that I needed to xm shutdown the domU.

I've seen it too on occasion, on domU reboot. I think it's a race
condition somewhere, not related to you problem.

> 
> My Google search showed some similar problems but the authors were
> telling about migration and so on which I definitly didn't do. As I
> wrote in the original mail, the domU ran for 3 weeks without
> problems/crashes.
> 
> Maybe worthable to mention: First the domU was used with Xen 2 (thus
> with the netbsd3.1 xen2 kernel) and when I updated the dom0 to support
> xen3 I simply used the netbsd3.1 xen3 kernel. I hope that it was the
> correct way of doing it?

Yes, I upgraded servers from xen2 to xen3 this way.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           
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