janevert, sorry that was everything i got from xen.. the machine wasn't started at all and the bootprocess was cut off as well at that point. I changed back a test-setting in the hwclock-scripts in the VM-root, so now there is a little more: now xen states that the machine is already present, but it isn't visible in 'xm top' -------> [root@xen02 mnt]# xm create crm.tarent.de -c Using config file "/etc/xen/crm.tarent.de". Error: Domain 'crm.tarent.de' already exists with ID '895' [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.24-17-xen (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)) #1 SMP Thu May 1 16:58:53 UTC 2008 (Ubuntu 2.6.24-4.6-generic) [ 0.000000] Reserving virtual address space above 0xf5800000 [ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: [ 0.000000] Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000010800000 (usable) [ 0.000000] 0MB HIGHMEM available. [ 0.000000] 264MB LOWMEM available. [91148.048076] Zone PFN ranges: [91148.048078] DMA 0 -> 4096 [91148.048080] Normal 4096 -> 67584 [91148.048081] HighMem 67584 -> 67584 [91148.048082] Movable zone start PFN for each node [91148.048084] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges [91148.048086] 0: 0 -> 67584 [91148.051668] ACPI in unprivileged domain disabled [91148.051673] Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 10800000:ef800000) [91148.051714] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 67056 [91148.051717] Kernel command line: root=/dev/xvda1 ro 2 console=xvc0 [91148.051872] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. [91148.051878] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. [91148.051880] Initializing CPU#0 [91148.052014] PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes) [91148.052045] Xen reported: 2327.524 MHz processor. [ 0.115708] console [xvc0] enabled [ 0.115760] Console: colour dummy device 80x25 [ 0.115866] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) [ 0.115975] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) [ 0.116014] Software IO TLB disabled [ 0.116017] vmalloc area: d1000000-f53fe000, maxmem 2d800000 [ 0.120076] Memory: 249288k/270336k available (2224k kernel code, 12848k reserved, 1010k data, 212k init, 0k highmem) [ 0.120085] virtual kernel memory layout: [ 0.120085] fixmap : 0xf568d000 - 0xf57ff000 (1480 kB) [ 0.120086] pkmap : 0xf5400000 - 0xf5600000 (2048 kB) [ 0.120087] vmalloc : 0xd1000000 - 0xf53fe000 ( 579 MB) [ 0.120088] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xd0800000 ( 264 MB) [ 0.120088] .init : 0xc042f000 - 0xc0464000 ( 212 kB) [ 0.120089] .data : 0xc032c3c1 - 0xc0428d04 (1010 kB) [ 0.120090] .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc032c3c1 (2224 kB) [ 0.120099] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. [ 0.187637] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4657.59 BogoMIPS (lpj=9315188) [ 0.187680] Security Framework initialized [ 0.187688] SELinux: Disabled at boot. [ 0.187694] AppArmor: AppArmor initialized [ 0.187698] Failure registering capabilities with primary security module. [ 0.187713] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 [ 0.187845] CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K [ 0.187850] CPU: L2 cache: 4096K [ 0.187873] Compat vDSO mapped to f57fe000. [ 0.187880] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. [ 0.188301] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code [ 0.188989] Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed [ 0.189069] Early unpacking initramfs... done [ 0.193904] Brought up 1 CPUs [ 0.194554] net_namespace: 64 bytes [ 0.194559] failed to set up cpufreq notifier [ 0.211660] Time: 165:165:165 Date: 165/165/65 [ 0.211688] NET: Registered protocol family 16 [ 0.212667] Brought up 1 CPUs [ 0.212677] PCI: Fatal: No config space access function found [ 0.212680] PCI: setting up Xen PCI frontend stub [ 0.213175] ACPI: Interpreter disabled. [ 0.213180] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay [ 0.213206] pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled [ 0.213511] xen_mem: Initialising balloon driver. [ 0.236288] Setting mem allocation to 262144 kiB [ 0.236556] PCI: System does not support PCI [ 0.236560] PCI: System does not support PCI [ 0.245148] NET: Registered protocol family 8 [ 0.245152] NET: Registered protocol family 20 [ 0.245221] AppArmor: AppArmor Filesystem Enabled [ 0.245592] NET: Registered protocol family 2 [ 0.249132] Time: xen clocksource has been installed. [ 0.281232] IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) [ 0.281396] TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) [ 0.281446] TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) [ 0.281494] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) [ 0.281497] TCP reno registered [ 0.293268] checking if image is initramfs... it is [ 0.300100] Freeing initrd memory: 5348k freed [ 0.300497] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) [ 0.300509] audit(1210169193.214:1): initialized [ 0.300622] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 [ 0.300639] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) [ 0.300710] io scheduler noop registered [ 0.300713] io scheduler anticipatory registered [ 0.300715] io scheduler deadline registered [ 0.300721] io scheduler cfq registered (default) [ 0.300901] Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0 [ 0.300931] Event-channel device installed. [ 0.308166] Successfully initialized TPM backend driver. [ 0.339017] netfront: Initialising virtual ethernet driver. [ 0.453014] xen-vbd: registered block device major 202 [ 0.453356] xvda: xvda1 xvda2 < xvda5 > [ 0.473667] rtc: IRQ 8 is not free. [ 0.474169] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize [ 0.474223] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /devices/virtual/input/input0 [ 0.474319] PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly. [ 0.475136] i8042.c: No controller found. [ 0.477261] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice [ 0.477296] cpuidle: using governor ladder [ 0.477361] NET: Registered protocol family 1 [ 0.477383] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode [ 0.477421] registered taskstats version 1 [ 0.572739] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 0.572746] kernel BUG at /build/buildd/linux-2.6.24/debian/build/custom-source-xen/drivers/xen/netfront/netfront.c:855! [ 0.572750] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 0.572755] Modules linked in: [ 0.572758] [ 0.572760] Pid: 18, comm: xenwatch Not tainted (2.6.24-17-xen #1) [ 0.572763] EIP: 0061:[] EFLAGS: 00010002 CPU: 0 [ 0.572771] EIP is at network_alloc_rx_buffers+0x503/0x510 [ 0.572773] EAX: 00000040 EBX: cfc299b4 ECX: 00000041 EDX: 0000003f [ 0.572776] ESI: 0001051d EDI: cfc28480 EBP: 0000023f ESP: cf625edc [ 0.572779] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: e021 [ 0.572783] Process xenwatch (pid: 18, ti=cf624000 task=cf61ec30 task.ti=cf624000) [ 0.572786] Stack: ffffffff cfc2919c cfc28000 000007e0 00000100 003f5ee0 00000040 00000000 [ 0.572798] d051d000 00000040 cfc28550 ced8f000 00000040 0000003f cfc295b4 00000040 [ 0.572809] 00000000 00000000 00007ff0 00000000 cfc28480 00000000 00000100 c026a7fa [ 0.572820] Call Trace: [ 0.572824] [] backend_changed+0x76a/0x8c0 [ 0.572829] [] otherend_changed+0x8f/0xa0 [ 0.572834] [] xenwatch_thread+0x0/0x140 [ 0.572840] [] xenwatch_handle_callback+0x1a/0x60 [ 0.572845] [] xenwatch_thread+0x12a/0x140 [ 0.572850] [] xenwatch_handle_callback+0x0/0x60 [ 0.572855] [] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 [ 0.572861] [] kthread+0x42/0x70 [ 0.572866] [] kthread+0x0/0x70 [ 0.572870] [] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 [ 0.572875] ======================= [ 0.572877] Code: 00 00 8b 54 24 30 39 d0 74 06 eb 8c 85 c0 75 1b 83 ea 01 83 fa ff 66 90 75 f2 8b 54 24 30 e9 11 ff ff ff 0f 0b eb fe 0f 0b eb fe <0f> 0b eb fe 0f 0b eb fe 90 8d 74 26 00 83 ec 20 85 d2 89 5c 24 [ 0.572945] EIP: [] network_alloc_rx_buffers+0x503/0x510 SS:ESP e021:cf625edc [ 0.572952] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt