I can''t seem to make a rawhide domU work on a RHEL5.2 dom0, because virt-install doesn''t think that there''s a valid tree. Looking at it, there is indeed no images/xen in the tree, are we using the standard kernel for DomU''s now, or is F10 not going to be supported as a domU? This is on x86_64.
On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 15:25 -0400, Jon Stanley wrote:> I can''t seem to make a rawhide domU work on a RHEL5.2 dom0, because > virt-install doesn''t think that there''s a valid tree. Looking at it, > there is indeed no images/xen in the tree, are we using the standard > kernel for DomU''s now, or is F10 not going to be supported as a domU?Yeah, older virt-install doesn''t know to look in the "images-xen" stanza in the ".treeinfo" file to determine which images to use: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/460585 Cole has been backporting the patches and 5.3 should be able to be able to install Fedora 10. Cheers, Mark.
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 4:19 AM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> wrote:> Cole has been backporting the patches and 5.3 should be able to be able > to install Fedora 10.Cool, got the new python-virtinst package from my TAM. Gets further, still doesn''t work :) Is this a kernel issue now? [root@monster os]# virt-install --paravirt -r 512 -n f10 -l http://monster.rmrf.net/fedora/development/x86_64/os -f /dev/data3vg/rawhide-test --nographics Starting install... Retrieving file .treeinfo 100% |=========================| 1.0 kB 00:00 Retrieving file .treeinfo 100% |=========================| 1.0 kB 00:00 Retrieving file vmlinuz.. 100% |=========================| 2.6 MB 00:00 Retrieving file initrd.im 100% |=========================| 17 MB 00:00 virDomainCreateLinux() failed POST operation failed: (xend.err "Error creating domain: (2, ''Invalid kernel'', ''xc_dom_find_loader: no loader found\\n'')") Domain installation may not have been successful. If it was, you can restart your domain by running ''virsh start f10''; otherwise, please restart your installation. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:01:53 ERROR virDomainCreateLinux() failed POST operation failed: (xend.err "Error creating domain: (2, ''Invalid kernel'', ''xc_dom_find_loader: no loader found\\n'')") Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/virt-install", line 559, in ? main() File "/usr/sbin/virt-install", line 491, in main dom = guest.start_install(conscb, progresscb, wait=(not wait)) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 822, in start_install return self._do_install(consolecb, meter, wait) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 843, in _do_install self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(install_xml, 0) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 573, in createLinux if ret is None:raise libvirtError(''virDomainCreateLinux() failed'', conn=self) libvirtError: virDomainCreateLinux() failed POST operation failed: (xend.err "Error creating domain: (2, ''Invalid kernel'', ''xc_dom_find_loader: no loader found\\n'')")
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 09:02 -0400, Jon Stanley wrote:> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 4:19 AM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> wrote: > > > Cole has been backporting the patches and 5.3 should be able to be able > > to install Fedora 10. > > Cool, got the new python-virtinst package from my TAM. Gets further, > still doesn''t work :) Is this a kernel issue now? > > [root@monster os]# virt-install --paravirt -r 512 -n f10 -l > http://monster.rmrf.net/fedora/development/x86_64/os -f > /dev/data3vg/rawhide-test --nographics > > > Starting install... > Retrieving file .treeinfo 100% |=========================| 1.0 kB 00:00 > Retrieving file .treeinfo 100% |=========================| 1.0 kB 00:00 > Retrieving file vmlinuz.. 100% |=========================| 2.6 MB 00:00 > Retrieving file initrd.im 100% |=========================| 17 MB 00:00 > virDomainCreateLinux() failed POST operation failed: (xend.err "Error creating domain: (2, ''Invalid kernel'', ''xc_dom_find_loader: no loader found\\n'')")Doh, yeah - libxc needs support for loading bzImage kernels: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/457199 Cheers, Mark.
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Mark McLoughlin wrote:> On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 09:02 -0400, Jon Stanley wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 4:19 AM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> wrote: >> >>> Cole has been backporting the patches and 5.3 should be able to be able >>> to install Fedora 10....> Doh, yeah - libxc needs support for loading bzImage kernels: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/457199Do we know when 5.3 will be out, or if these patched packages will be available before then? I am concerned that we might be left with a period of time where there won''t be any supported Redhat or Fedora platform to run Xen guests, and of course the lack of current support in RHEL is reducing the testing that Fedora 10 xen is getting. Michael Young
On Oct 6 Mark McLoughlin wrote:> On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 15:25 -0400, Jon Stanley wrote: >> I can''t seem to make a rawhide domU work on a RHEL5.2 dom0, because[snip]> Cole has been backporting the patches and 5.3 should be able to be able > to install Fedora 10.Hi, slight thread-hijack here but given: - 5.3 isn''t here yet - I have lots of F8 domUs (F8 is very nearly EOL) - F9 domU doesn''t balloon - F10 domU doesn''t boot on 5.2 ..I''d like to upgrade _only_ the necessary RPMs in 5.3beta to allow F10 to boot as a guest on my hypervisors. Does anyone have such a list? (or even a yum repository?) Somewhat hopefully, Matt
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 09:30:36AM +0000, Matt Bernstein wrote:> On Oct 6 Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > >On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 15:25 -0400, Jon Stanley wrote: > >>I can''t seem to make a rawhide domU work on a RHEL5.2 dom0, because > [snip] > >Cole has been backporting the patches and 5.3 should be able to be able > >to install Fedora 10. > > Hi, slight thread-hijack here but given: > - 5.3 isn''t here yet > - I have lots of F8 domUs (F8 is very nearly EOL) > - F9 domU doesn''t balloon > - F10 domU doesn''t boot on 5.2 > > ..I''d like to upgrade _only_ the necessary RPMs in 5.3beta to allow F10 to > boot as a guest on my hypervisors. > > Does anyone have such a list? (or even a yum repository?)Cole has rebuilt the RHEL-5.2 Xen and virt-install packages with the neccessary patches to allow Fedora 10 installs: http://crobinso.fedorapeople.org/rhel5/install_f10/ These are totally *unsupported* and not an official part of RHEL, they are just a convenience for people who want to try out F10 by can''t wait until 5.3 The official supported packages will arrive in RHEL-5.3. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|
On Dec 13 Daniel P. Berrange wrote:> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 09:30:36AM +0000, Matt Bernstein wrote: >> ..I''d like to upgrade _only_ the necessary RPMs in 5.3beta to allow F10 to >> boot as a guest on my hypervisors. > > http://crobinso.fedorapeople.org/rhel5/install_f10/Thank you Cole and thank you Daniel--just what the doctor ordered. Matt
On Dec 14 Matt Bernstein wrote:> On Dec 13 Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >> http://crobinso.fedorapeople.org/rhel5/install_f10/ > > Thank you Cole and thank you Daniel--just what the doctor ordered...and now those RPMs have vanished :( Are there newer ones around, or have they moved somewhere else?