I have rebooted this xenhost (with four guests) quite a few times since yesterday, sofar no problems. When a guest starts up, I see stuff like this in the kernel buffer: [48114.377064] blkfront: device/vbd/768: ring-pages=1 nr-ents=32 segs-per-req=32 [48114.866146] blkfront: device/vbd/832: ring-pages=1 nr-ents=32 segs-per-req=32 [48107.574760] blkfront: device/vbd/768: ring-pages=1 nr-ents=32 segs-per-req=32 [47856.710182] blkfront: device/vbd/768: ring-pages=1 nr-ents=32 segs-per-req=32 [47889.752094] blkfront: device/vbd/768: ring-pages=1 nr-ents=32 segs-per-req=32 I'll try a few more reboots this morning.