'Live' Migrate messes up NTP on FreeBSD domU - any suggestions?

Roger Pau Monné roger.pau at citrix.com
Fri Aug 12 08:01:18 UTC 2016


On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 02:29:10PM +0200, Hoyer-Reuther, Christian wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> sorry for the late response, but now I'm back from vacation and did some new tests.
> 
> I installed a new VM using the FreeBSD-11.0-ALPHA6-amd64-20160701-r302303-disc1.iso, then updated to HEAD r303908 and installed xe-guest-utilities-6.2.0_2 from HEAD ports r420055. Xenguest_enable="YES" is set in /etc/rc.conf.
> 
> I tested VM migration from XenCenter (XenMotion).
> 
> There are no more time issues after migration.
> 
> I did 4 migrations and at 2 migrations I noticed the following problems:
> 
> When the migration finishes then the VM console switches to the VGA BIOS screen (Plex86/Bochs VGABios ...), the VM console freezes, the VM is not reachable over network and in XenCenter I see the first 2 CPU's raising up to 100 percent. Screenshots attached.

Hm, not sure what's going on there, and why you seem to be the only one to 
hit this issue. Are you maybe booting with boot_verbose="YES"?

> Then after 10 minutes the CPU usage goes down, the VM console is responsive again and the machine is reachable over network.

Hm, could you give a try to 11.0-RC1 when it comes out? It should be out 
today or tomorrow (builds are already underway).

Roger.


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