Solving Common Xen Problems

A number of different problems can occur during the boot process of the Xen guest system. Solutions to common Xen problems are as follows:

• Ubuntu Xen Guest (DomU) Hangs after EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode message
• Ubuntu Xen System Boot Hangs After Setting System Clock Message
• Xen domainU fails to boot with a "Xen Guest OS Fails to Boot with Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)" error message
• A Xen Guest OS fails to boot with a "switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory error message" error message.
• Xen CentOS/Fedora/Red Hat Guest OS Hangs During Boot
• Xen domainU Boot Fails with Invalid kernel / ERROR: Not a Xen-ELF image Message