On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:16:26AM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
Starting install... *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: free(): invalid next size (fast):
Yes I'm seeing this too on 0.6.1 on RHEL-5.3, I'm trying to chase it down, it's a bit hard to find out where the memory corruption occurs.
I've memtested the memory and its fine. If i use a file as the target (instead of a block device) it also works:
virt-install -n test -r 512 --vnc --file=/tmp/test-os --file-size=2 -- location=ftp://mirrors/centos/5/os/i386
yes I get the crash with a file based target too. I'm investigating ...
I guess I nailed it down, it's something we introduced when converting memory allocation, and since the block getting allocated includes both char * and char we failed to allocate enough space for the leading char * array. With this patch I was able to create a new guest and have it load with virt-install (but just in serial concole, graphics didn't work for some reason), it disapeared from the domain list too after being restarted at the end of the installation, so there is more stuff to be fixed on RHEL/Centos Xen, but that one seems solved, Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/