RHEL 5.5 guest crashing triggered by the "floppy_ready" call

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Issue

  • RHEL 5.5 guest crashing: Triggered by the "floppy_ready" call
    PANIC: "Oops: 0000 [1] SMP " (check log for details)
    PID: 6      TASK: ffff81043fd38860  CPU: 0   COMMAND: "events/0"
    #0 [ffff81043fd3bb90] crash_kexec at ffffffff800aeb6b
    #1 [ffff81043fd3bc50] __die at ffffffff80066157
    #2 [ffff81043fd3bc90] do_page_fault at ffffffff80067dd7
    #3 [ffff81043fd3bd80] error_exit at ffffffff8005ede9
       [exception RIP: floppy_ready+1216]
       RIP: ffffffff882adc34  RSP: ffff81043fd3be30  RFLAGS: 00010202
       RAX: 0000000000000000  RBX: 0000000000000000  RCX: 0000000000000000
       RDX: 00000000ffffffff  RSI: 0000000000000000  RDI: ffffffff80312ddc
       RBP: ffffffff882b6d08   R8: 00000000000000a0   R9: 0000000000000001
       R10: 0000000000000000  R11: 0000000000000000  R12: ffff81010ef81740
       R13: 0000000000000282  R14: 0000000000000000  R15: ffffffff882adccc
       ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff  CS: 0010  SS: 0000
    #4 [ffff81043fd3be38] run_workqueue at ffffffff8004dc37
    #5 [ffff81043fd3be78] worker_thread at ffffffff8004a562
    #6 [ffff81043fd3bee8] kthread at ffffffff80032bdc
    #7 [ffff81043fd3bf48] kernel_thread at ffffffff8005efb1
    
  • Log several I/O error (fd0)
    end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
  • VSphere4 - ESX 4.0 / ESXi 4.0

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