Dave E pointed out that you may also be hitting this bug: 6782943 HVM PIO instruction emulation does not deal with a zero REP count
Which seems likely, as your domain is crashing at its first I/O to disk. Russ Blaine wrote: > Anup Patil wrote: >> Failed allocation for dom 7: 1 extents of order 9 >> ERROR Internal error: Cannot allocate more 2M pages for HVM guest. >> (16 = Device busy) > > I don't think these are relevant. > >> The hvm boots from the cdrom image, and the installation begins with a >> disk format. The kernel crashes as disk write initates. >> >> Adding the --livecd option did not help either. >> >> Same problem occurs if zpool is used. This was tried with the 64 and 32 >> bit Xvm hypervisor. > > Did you mean you tried it on a zvol, or on a zfs-backed raw file? > >> Installation of opensolaris i86pc as a hvm fails in a similar way too. >> >> any ideas ? > > Try using a vmdk disk. Use name.vmdk for the disk name and virt-install > will create a vmdk (it uses the filename extension to determine disk type). > > - R > _______________________________________________ > xen-discuss mailing list > [email protected] _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
