On Fri, 5 Jun 2020, Jürgen Groß wrote: > Do you happen to start the guest with vcpus < maxvcpus?
Indeed, I was booting with vcpus=2, maxvcpus=4. Setting both to the same value made the domU boot. > If yes there is already a patch pending for 5.8: > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip.git/commit/?h=for-linus-5.8&id=c54b071c192dfe8061336f650ceaf358e6386e0b Applied that manually and now the system boots even with vcpus < maxvcpus. So, if this still matters: Tested-by: Christian Kujau <li...@nerdbynature.de> Thank you for your response, and the fix! Christian. -- BOFH excuse #146: Communications satellite used by the military for star wars.
