XEN kernel hangs during boot with Intel 82575EB NICs/igb driver under RHEL 5.4

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Issue

  • The halts during boot and kernel-xen Dom0 stops responding after either the “bringing up interface eth0” or the “starting xend” messages.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
  • Intel 82575EB NICs/igb driver

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