Hello: I am new to Xen and have been having problems getting it to run properly on CentOS 5.2. One thing to note is that the base Xen installs fine it seems but when trying to create the virtual instance (domU) it says it cannot connect to the console. I have looked up the error but cannot find anything specific to try. I currently only have access to the server remotely via SSH, if this matters at all. qemu: the number of cpus is 1 *** image /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/5/768 format raw driver 0x80e7940 *** image /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/5/5632 format raw driver 0x80e7940 Watching /local/domain/5/logdirty/next-active Could not initialize SDL - exiting I would really appreciate any assistance from anyone who knows Xen and CentOS. Thanks Jason -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20081115/e307437a/attachment-0004.html>
> I am new to Xen and have been having problems getting it to run properly on > CentOS 5.2. One thing to note is that the base Xen installs fine it seems > but when trying to create the virtual instance (domU) it says it cannot > connect to the console. I have looked up the error but cannot find anything > specific to try. I currently only have access to the server remotely via > SSH, if this matters at all.I'm a Xen newbie myself, but it has worked fine for me so far using GUI tools and on a server that supports hardware virtualisation. I suppose the first questions are: Is xend running? What tools are you using to create domU? Forgive me if I'm telling you something you already know, but on the command line your options are virsh and xm, virt-manager is GUI only AFAIK. Are you working as root? You probably need to be.
Jason Taylor wrote on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:00:46 -0700:> One thing to note is that the base Xen installs fine it seems > but when trying to create the virtual instance (domU) it says it cannot > connect to the console.Then try without making it connect to the console. (I may have misunderstood what you mean by "create", note, "create" means *starting* an existing VM. see below.) I looked at the how-to, it uses virt-install. That works very well. What exactly did you install as a domU? What where your commands? And when do you get that error, when you run virt-install and it wants to attach to the console or once it's finished and you start the VM up? One thing: you want to use the Xen 3.2 rpms provided by xen.org for serious production work on CentOS and not the one coming with CentOS. Suggest you read the archives of the list for all tips and caveats. Kai -- Kai Sch?tzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com