Xen guest is hanging during the boot

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Issue

Xen guest is hanging during the boot

virsh console level
Connected to domain vm_name
Escape character is ^]
Bootdata ok (command line is  ro root=/dev/vgroot/lvroot)
Linux version 2.6.18-238.5.1.el5xen (mockbuild@x86-002.build.bos.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-50)) #1 SMP Mon Feb 21 06:01:41 EST 2011
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000180800000 (usable)
No mptable found.
Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 1574912
Kernel command line:  ro root=/dev/vgroot/lvroot
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes)
Xen reported: 2398.848 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 1048576 (order: 11, 8388608 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes)
Software IO TLB disabled
Memory: 4056180k/6299648k available (2529k kernel code, 137436k reserved, 1736k data, 196k init)
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5999.88 BogoMIPS (lpj=11999766)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux:  Initializing.
selinux_register_security:  Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized as secondary
Mount-cache hash table entries: 256
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 3072K
CPU: L3 cache: 12288K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 1
CPU: Processor Core ID: 3
(SMP-)alternatives turned off
Brought up 1 CPUs
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Grant table initialized
NET: Registered protocol family 16
Initializing CPU#1
migration_cost=7055
Brought up 2 CPUs
PCI: setting up Xen PCI frontend stub
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
xen_mem: Initialising balloon driver.
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: System does not support PCI
PCI: System does not support PCI
NetLabel: Initializing
NetLabel:  domain hash size = 128
NetLabel:  protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
NetLabel:  unlabeled traffic allowed by default
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
type=2000 audit(1383784610.768:1): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
alg: No test for crc32c (crc32c-generic)
ksign: Installing public key data
Loading keyring
- Added public key D3276591ECEE6556
- User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
rtc: IRQ 8 is not free.
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
brd: module loaded
Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0
Event-channel device installed.
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37
input: Xen Virtual Keyboard/Mouse as /class/input/input0
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
i8042.c: No controller found.
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
TCP bic registered
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51712
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51728
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0
Initalizing network drop monitor service
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 498k
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
Registering block device major 202
 xvda: xvda1 xvda2
 xvdb: xvdb1
device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.5-ioctl (2007-12-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
device-mapper: dm-raid45: initialized v0.2594l
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
type=1403 audit(1383784615.676:2): policy loaded auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
  • Xen Kernel

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