[xenpreview-dev] Xen 3.1 and SLES-10

[Charles Coffing]

"Tobias Mucke" <tobias.mucke at googlemail.com> wrote: 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> we have an issue with Xen version delivered with SLES-10 SP1. After a
> while all domainUs are unreachable from the network point of view.
> Login to the console still works. But domainUs can not ping other
> domainUs nor domain0. SSH login to domain0 still works. Unfortunately
> there is no error in the logs.

This may be related to bug #289569; see below.

> We have opened a call at HP, our support partner for SLES-10. They
> pointed us to Cool Solutions from Novell where we found a Xen 3.1
> version for SLES-10 X86-64 but not for X86 32 bit. Besides that this
> package seems to be only for a full virtualized environment because
> there is no kernel-xen RPM in it.

Indeed.  I was not aware of this build of xen-3.1 on Cool Solutions, but I can't recommend it.  It's not from the team that has done Xen in the SLES products, and hasn't been through the same QA process, and (as with most things on Cool Solutions) isn't supported.

> Same issue with XTP where the new
> updates tar.bz2 with build number 0.47 also don't provide kernel-xen
> RPMs.

The 0.47 build on XTP is a preview of the Xen maintenance update that should be available in the update channel any time now.  It works with the SLES 10 SP1 kernel.  I do not think that this maintenance update will fix any networking issues, however.

> Anybody else experiencing this network connection problems? What about
> an update for paravirtualized Xen environments?

Your problem sounds similar to bug #289569 (which is marked Novell internal, sorry).  Do you use any vlan interfaces in dom0?  If so, this is likely the issue.  We have a patch you can try, and expect to have the fix in a later update to Xen.

If you don't use vlans, then I don't know what the issue may be.  Resolving through Novell Support would likely be fastest, or file a bug at bugzilla.novell.com.

> What about the roadmap of Novell with SLES-10 and Xen?

We are working on maintenance updates for SLES 10 SP1.  As I am not product management, I can't comment beyond that...


> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Tobias
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