Wired Xen error

I was trying to migrate a VM from an older version of Xen to Xen 4.6. The console did not work after boot, it showed the login prompt, but it was not possible to type. I saw these error messages:

[ 24.684852] genirq: Flags mismatch irq 8. 00000000 (hvc_console) vs. 00000000 (rtc0)
[ 24.684860] hvc_open: request_irq failed with rc -16.

In hvc console not working on 4.4.0 guest I found the workaround to set 2 vpus for the VM. This worked.

Why systemd is not my friend

For a longer period of time I’m using OpenVZ for container virtualization and Xen for (para)virtualization. I wanted to try something new with KVM. I choosed Proxmox 4, which offers KVM and lxc as container solution. After playing around with KVM, I decided to migrate a live container from OpenVZ to Proxmox yesterday. The container has been migrated from one OpenVZ instance to another before and I upgraded from Debian Wheezy to Jessie. That means the container runs systemd before migrating from OpenVZ to Proxmox 4 / lxc. I needed to add three network interfaces to the container to add three IPv4 and three IPv6 adresses for the three services that run on this host. Later the container network died and the problems started. Continue reading “Why systemd is not my friend”