Xen guest appears to be hung and won't boot up to login prompt in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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Issue

Unable to start Xen virtual machines.  dom0 was rebooted because customer lost connection to it.  Now 2 of the virtual machines won't boot all the way up to a login prompt.

Environment

  • dom0 - RHEL5.2 without GUI (thus no virt-manager)
  • domU - RHEL5.2

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