kdump always hangs on RHEL5.3 kvm guest when virtio disk is used

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Issue

  • Kdump always hangs up on RHEL5.3 kvm guest when virtio disk is used.

  • Following is the last message on console is as follows when kdump (2nd kernel) hangs:

Waiting for vda...input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse as /class/input/input1

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.3 kvm guest
  • kexec-tools-1.102pre-56.el5

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