HELP: XEN image won't boot anymore

On my host, I’m running Opensuse 12.1 and yast updated xen-kernel to version 3.1.10-1.29.1.

Since upgrading, I can’t reboot the guest anymore. When I try to type “xm start name”, the system says that the guest is already running. But this is not true, and I can’t shut down or reboot the guest.

In xend.log I don’t say anything specific.

Please help!

Tx – Ivan

So,
How did you have your Guest configured before your current problems, specifically did you have it configured to start on boot?

Also, if you have multi-kernel enabled (IMO likely), do you still have an option to boot to your earlier kernel as an “Advanced” option in your GRUB menu during Host boot?

Do you have only this one Guest?
Have you reviewed the Guest config file to verify nothing there requires modification?
Can you create a brand new Guest with new virtual disk to verify whether that runs?
And, if that works, are you able to build a new Guest using your original Guest virtual disk?(remeber to copy and backup disks so none are destroyed)

Note that even if you are able to build a new Guest using your old virtual disk, you may still want to verify no “orphaned” Guest may be running that could eat up resources.

TSU