Unfortunately I have not yet figured out why this happens, but can confirm by compiling with or without CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE being set that without KASLR all is ok, but with it enabled there are issues (actually a dom0 does not even boot as a follow up error). Details can be seen in [1] but basically this is always some portion of a vmalloc allocation failing after hitting a freshly allocated PTE space not being PTE_NONE (usually from a module load triggered by systemd-udevd). In the non-dom0 case this repeats many times but ends in a guest that allows login. In the dom0 case there is a more fatal error at some point causing a crash. I have not tried this for a normal PV guest but for dom0 it also does not help to add "nokaslr" to the kernel command-line. -Stefan 19:35:02 [ 2.547049] ------------[ cut here ]------------ 19:35:02 [ 2.547065] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 97 at /build/buildd/linux-3.16.0/mm/vmalloc.c:128 vmap_page_range_noflush+0x2d1/0x370() 19:35:02 [ 2.547069] Modules linked in: 19:35:02 [ 2.547073] CPU: 0 PID: 97 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 3.16.0-6-generic #11-Ubuntu 19:35:02 [ 2.547077] 0000000000000009 ffff880002defb98 ffffffff81755538 0000000000000000 19:35:02 [ 2.547082] ffff880002defbd0 ffffffff8106bb0d ffff88000400ec88 0000000000000001 19:35:02 [ 2.547086] ffff880002fcfb00 ffffffffc0391000 0000000000000000 ffff880002defbe0 19:35:02 [ 2.547090] Call Trace: 19:35:02 [ 2.547096] [] dump_stack+0x45/0x56 19:35:02 [ 2.547101] [] warn_slowpath_common+0x7d/0xa0 19:35:02 [ 2.547104] [] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 19:35:02 [ 2.547108] [] vmap_page_range_noflush+0x2d1/0x370 19:35:02 [ 2.547112] [] map_vm_area+0x2e/0x40 19:35:02 [ 2.547115] [] __vmalloc_node_range+0x188/0x280 19:35:02 [ 2.547120] [] ? module_alloc_update_bounds+0x14/0x70 19:35:02 [ 2.547124] [] ? module_alloc_update_bounds+0x14/0x70 19:35:02 [ 2.547129] [] module_alloc+0x74/0xd0 19:35:02 [ 2.547132] [] ? module_alloc_update_bounds+0x14/0x70 19:35:02 [ 2.547135] [] module_alloc_update_bounds+0x14/0x70 19:35:02 [ 2.547146] [] layout_and_allocate+0x74c/0xc70 19:35:02 [ 2.547149] [] load_module+0xd3/0x1b70 19:35:02 [ 2.547154] [] ? vfs_read+0xf1/0x170 19:35:02 [ 2.547157] [] ? copy_module_from_fd.isra.46+0x121/0x180 19:35:02 [ 2.547161] [] SyS_finit_module+0x86/0xb0 19:35:02 [ 2.547167] [] tracesys+0xe1/0xe6 19:35:02 [ 2.547169] ---[ end trace 8a5de7fc66e75fe4 ]--- 19:35:02 [ 2.547172] vmalloc: allocation failure, allocated 20480 of 24576 bytes 19:35:02 [ 2.547175] systemd-udevd: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0xd2 [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1350522