Yes. I will have to re-upgrade my xen system to collect the additional info from the panic, so it will be later today before I can reply with all the info.
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020, 5:54 AM Roger Pau Monné <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 11:50:39AM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 02:57:14PM -0700, Cheyenne Wills wrote: > > > Running Xen with XSA-351 is causing Solaris 11 systems to panic during > > > boot. The panic screen is showing the failure to be coming from > > > "unix:rdmsr". The panic occurs with existing guests (booting off a > disk) > > > and the booting from an install ISO image. > > > > > > I discussed the problem with "andyhhp__" in the "#xen" IRC channel and > he > > > requested that I report it here. > > > > > > This was failing on a Xen 4.13 and a Xen 4.14 system built via gentoo. > > > > > > I understand that ultimately this is a bug in Solaris. However it does > > > impact existing guests that were functional before applying the XSA-351 > > > security patches. > > > > I seem to have some issues getting the Solaris 11.4 ISO to boot, which I > > think are unrelated to the MSR changes. I get what seems to be a panic > > just after the Copyright message, but there's no reason printed at all > > about the panic. The message just reads (transcript): > > > > SunOS Release 5.11 Version 11.4.0.15.0 64-bit > > Copyright (c) 1983, 2018, Oracle and/or it's affiliates. All right > reserved. > > System would not fast reboot because: > > newkernel not valid > > fastreboot_onpanic is not set > > ... > > > > The config file I'm using is: > > > > memory=1024 > > vcpus=4 > > name="solaris" > > > > builder="hvm" > > > > disk = [ > > > > 'format=raw,vdev=hdc,access=ro,devtype=cdrom,target=/root/sol-11_4-text-x86.iso', > > 'format=raw,vdev=hda,access=rw,target=/root/solaris.img', > > ] > > > > vif = [ > > 'mac=00:16:3E:74:3d:88,bridge=bridge0', > > ] > > > > vnc=1 > > vnclisten="0.0.0.0" > > > > serial='pty' > > > > on_crash="preserve" > > > > Is there anything I'm missing? > > OK, it seems like Solaris requires more than 1GB of memory in order to > boot. I've increased it to 4GB and I've been able to boot successfully > up to the installer. > > I'm however able to boot up to the installer screen without any > crashes, so I guess the version I'm using (11.4.0.15.0) is already > fixed? > > Can you paste which version of Solaris you are using and if possible > where I can find the installer media to reproduce? > > Thanks, Roger. >
