[ale] XenServer 7.x problem - anyone else using it?

[Beddingfield, Allen]

So, after sitting overnight, the VM with XFS does exactly the same thing.  In an ideal world, I would have time to troubleshoot this, post in XenServer forums, etc...  
However, in this world, I don't have time to, so I'll just load it under KVM or XEN on top of SLES. Sigh. 
Allen B.

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Allen Beddingfield
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The University of Alabama
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On 8/9/16, 2:55 PM, "ale-bounces at ale.org on behalf of Beddingfield, Allen" <ale-bounces at ale.org on behalf of allen at ua.edu> wrote:

    Aha!
    I remember there being some mention of problems booting XenServer VMs with Btrfs on the SLES 12 or SP1 beta mailing list, but I never thought it would have the capability to actually cause the logical volume at the virtualization host level to have a problem.  
    Well, at least the mystery is solved - although I'm not really sure I understand why.
    
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    Allen Beddingfield
    Systems Engineer
    Office of Information Technology
    The University of Alabama
    Office 205-348-2251
    allen at ua.edu
    
    On 8/9/16, 10:55 AM, "ale-bounces at ale.org on behalf of Niel Bornstein" <ale-bounces at ale.org on behalf of nbornstein at gmail.com> wrote:
    
        Aha!
        
        http://docs.citrix.com/content/dam/docs/en-us/xenserver/xenserver-7-0/downloads/xenserver-7-0-vm-users-guide.pdf
        
        "‡Customers should note that the Btrfs filesystem, the default in SLES
        12, is not supported by XenServer. Customers should instead select a
        supported filesystem such as EXT3 or EXT4 for the /boot partition."
        
        On 08/09/2016 10:49 AM, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
        > Interesting update to this:
        > 
        > The problem ONLY occurs if I use Btrfs.  If I use XFS, it works as expected.  
        > What INSIDE a VM could possibly mess with the underlying LVM volumes for the virtualization host?  
        > As strange as it seems, I can readily duplicate it.
        > 
        > Allen B.
        > 
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