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xen hung at “Checking for hardware changes”

By Michael Altfield, on August 13th, 2009

So, xen is really beginning to piss me off. I turned off all my machines to do a snapshot, and when I tried to bring them back up, they were all in the ‘blocked’ state. Upon further investigation (using virt-manager/xm console), I found that they were hung at the “Checking for hardware changes” item in their boot process. This could be a CentOS/RHEL 5 issue, but I’m putting my money on xen.

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Hi, I’m Michael Altfield. I write articles about opsec, privacy, and devops ➡

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Clone Xen RHEL5 (CentOS 5.2) VM

By Michael Altfield, on June 13th, 2009

Hello world! I just updated my whole server environment and, my, things are looking good. Anyway, I had to run through these steps a half dozen times, so I thought I would post it here for myself and (maybe even) others.

Here’s the commands I ran to turn a clone of my base RHEL5 (CentOS 5.2) Xen image into another working virtual machine on my RHEL5 (CentoOS 5.2) Xen Host:

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