RHEL 5.9 system shows 'VMBUS: HvInit() ERROR! Unknown guest id' error message while booting up the system
Issue
- We have RHEL 5.9 virtual machine hosted in Microsoft Hyper-V 2012. The system was failing to boot with kernel panic error messages noted in knowledge base solution 480873 due to which the initrd image was rebuild with
-preloadoption as per the steps in above solution. -
After rebuilding the initrd image, system is able to boot successfully but following error messages are observed on the console while booting up the system:
Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) not within permissible range WARNING calibrate_APIC_clock: the APIC timer calibrating may be wrong. Red Hat nash version 5.1.19.6 starting VMBUS: HvInit() ERROR! Unknown guest id (0x12345689898892)!! VMBUS: VmbusInitialize() ERROR!! Unable to initialize the hypervisor - 0xffffffff VMBUS_DRV: vmbus_bus_init() ERROR!! Unable to initialize vmbus (-1) insmod: error inserting '/lib/vmbus.ko': -1 Operation not permitted insmod: error inserting '/lib/blkvsc.ko': -1 Operation not permitted insmod: error inserting '/lib/storvsc.ko': -1 Operation not permitted insmod: error inserting '/lib/netvsc.ko': -1 Operation not permitted Welcome to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Press 'I' to enter interactive startup. Setting clock (utc): Fri Sep 20 06:40:40 CDT 2013 Starting udev : [ OK ]
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9
- kernel 2.6.18-348 and later
- Microsoft Hyper-V 2012
- Hyper-V modules installed with Dell DKMS
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