Unable to install RHEL 6.4 paravirtualized guest on RHEL 5.8 XEN Host

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Issue

  • I'm trying to do the installation of the paravirtualized RHEL 6.4 guest on a RHEL 5.8 hypervisor and it's no working.
  • The installation starts ok, but hangs before the install begins.
  • In the guest console I saw this messages before it hungs:
ipmi_si: Adding default-specified kcs state machine
ipmi_si: Trying default-specified kcs state machine at i/o address 0xca2, slave
Could not set up I/O space
Trying to free nonexistent resource <0000000000000ca2-0000000000000ca2>
Trying to free nonexistent resource <0000000000000ca3-0000000000000ca3>
ipmi_si: Adding default-specified smic state machine
ipmi_si: Trying default-specified smic state machine at i/o address 0xca9, slav
Could not set up I/O space
Trying to free nonexistent resource <0000000000000ca9-0000000000000ca9>
Trying to free nonexistent resource <0000000000000caa-0000000000000caa>
Trying to free nonexistent resource <0000000000000cab-0000000000000cab>
ipmi_si: Adding default-specified bt state machine
ipmi_si: Trying default-specified bt state machine at i/o address 0xe4, slave a
Could not set up I/O space
:
:
:
registered taskstats version 1
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51712
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51728
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0
drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
Initalizing network drop monitor service
Freeing unused kernel memory: 1264k freed
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 10240k
Freeing unused kernel memory: 904k freed
Freeing unused kernel memory: 1676k freed

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 (XEN Host)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 (paravirtualized guest)

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