I''m trying to bring up a virtualized system for the first time, and so far I''ve been completely unsuccessful. I''ve been monitoring this list for several weeks, and I''ve looked over the wiki,and everyone seems to depart from xend status. Here''s what I get. Notice that I never get the xend status at all, which all the replies to us newbies seem to start from. I''m using opensuse 11.3, the precompiled xen version. How do I get this first step going? John Perry tana:~ # xend status tana:~ # ps -e | grep xen 23 ? 00:00:00 xenwatch 24 ? 00:00:00 xenbus 2590 ? 00:00:00 xenstored 2595 ? 00:00:00 xend 2596 ? 00:00:01 xend 2599 ? 00:00:00 xenconsoled tana:~ # xend restart tana:~ # ps -e | grep xen 23 ? 00:00:00 xenwatch 24 ? 00:00:00 xenbus 2590 ? 00:00:00 xenstored 2599 ? 00:00:00 xenconsoled 3376 ? 00:00:00 xend 3379 ? 00:00:00 xend tana:~ # xend status tana:~ # tana:~ # uname -a Linux tana.site 2.6.34.7-0.5-xen #1 SMP 2010-10-25 08:40:12 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux tana:~ # _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On 11/17/2010 07:52 AM, John McDermott (U.S. Navy Employee) wrote:> John, > > Have you tried > > tana:~ # xm list? > > What does it show? >tana:~ # xm list Name ID Mem VCPUs State Time(s) Domain-0 0 1877 4 r----- 90.8 tana:~ #> Sincerely, > > John > ---- > On Nov 16, 2010, at 10:41 PM, John Perry wrote: > > >> I''m trying to bring up a virtualized system for the first time, and so >> far I''ve been completely unsuccessful. >> >> I''ve been monitoring this list for several weeks, and I''ve looked over >> the wiki,and everyone seems to depart from xend status. Here''s what I >> get. Notice that I never get the xend status at all, which all the >> replies to us newbies seem to start from. I''m using opensuse 11.3, the >> precompiled xen version. How do I get this first step going? >> >> John Perry >> >> tana:~ # xend status >> tana:~ # ps -e | grep xen >> 23 ? 00:00:00 xenwatch >> 24 ? 00:00:00 xenbus >> 2590 ? 00:00:00 xenstored >> 2595 ? 00:00:00 xend >> 2596 ? 00:00:01 xend >> 2599 ? 00:00:00 xenconsoled >> tana:~ # xend restart >> tana:~ # ps -e | grep xen >> 23 ? 00:00:00 xenwatch >> 24 ? 00:00:00 xenbus >> 2590 ? 00:00:00 xenstored >> 2599 ? 00:00:00 xenconsoled >> 3376 ? 00:00:00 xend >> 3379 ? 00:00:00 xend >> tana:~ # xend status >> tana:~ # >> >> tana:~ # uname -a >> Linux tana.site 2.6.34.7-0.5-xen #1 SMP 2010-10-25 08:40:12 +0200 x86_64 >> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux >> tana:~ # >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xen-users mailing list >> Xen-users@lists.xensource.com >> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >> > ---- > What is the formal meaning of the one-line program > #include "/dev/tty" > > J.P. McDermott building 12 > Code 5542 mcdermott@itd.nrl.navy.mil > Naval Research Laboratory voice: +1 202.404.8301 > Washington, DC 20375, US fax: +1 202.404.7942 > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On 11/17/2010 10:51 AM, John McDermott (U.S. Navy Employee) wrote:> John, > > Looks like you are ready to run virt-manager and try to install a > guest. Also, you might try playing around with virsh? I can''t remember > if OpenSuSE has virsh. >Thanks much for the help. I''ve been down this road several times, but never with help. I appreciate your attention. Since I don''t get the initial xend status, I thought I wasn''t succeeding because something was wrong in xend startup or configuration. Here''s what I get now, just as before: tana:~ # virt-manager ... (trying to virtualize a fully functional WIndows xp installation on its own partition, using hvm) ... Error: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. Could not find bridge, and none was specified Then it gives what appear to be instructions for starting "a xend managed domain". I try that, using the name given in virt-manager: tana:~ # xm start windowsxpx64 Error: Domain ''windowsxpx64'' does not exist. tana:~ # The files windowsxpx64 and windowsxpx64.xml do exist in /etc/xen/vm/. As I recall, I tried copying them up to /etc/xen/ once, and it made no difference. I do not recall having heard of virsh before, so I tried it. "help" gives dozens of commands, so it appears I''ll have a big project just learning it, if I have to use it. Is it substantially different or more capable than virt-manager? _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On 11/17/2010 11:28 AM, John McDermott (U.S. Navy Employee) wrote:> Virsh is a shell that is complementary to virt-manager. > > > You need to work on network scripts, to make sure your bridge is working. > > Have you looked at the Xen wiki? >Yes, but I thought my problem was in the initial building phase. From reading the list and the xen wiki and the suse wiki, I had the impression that things should just work except in special edge cases, and I must be in one of the edge cases. And not being a systems administrator, "network scripts" looks scary :-). Even without that, the error saying that my domU doesn''t even exist seems to imply that I haven''t gotten as far as needing to work on networking. So that isn''t so? the domU won''t even be created without a configured network? Back to the wikis, I guess. Thanks, jp> Sincerely, > > John > > ---- > On Nov 17, 2010, at 11:21 AM, John Perry wrote: > > >> I do not recall having heard of virsh before, so I tried it. "help" >> gives dozens of commands, so it appears I''ll have a big project just >> learning it, if I have to use it. Is it substantially different or more >> capable than virt-manager? >> >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On 11/17/2010 12:43 PM, John McDermott (U.S. Navy Employee) wrote:> John, > > My last experience with Xen on OpenSuSE was with 11.1 and it just worked. I am not sure what went wrong. Are you able to just re-install everything from scratch or is this a production machine? > >I could reinstall, but I''d have to coordinate with my wife (it''s her schoolwork machine).> It is probably better to get networking right, before trying to install a guest OS. Also, just for testing and practice, try to install an HVM copy of OpenSuSE first, before trying Windows. > >I hadn''t thought of that. I''ll give it a try. Thanks. Install another copy of opensuse onto one of my blank partitions, then set it up as a hvm, right?> Can you access web pages from dom0, e.g. Google? >By "networking", do you mean our home network, or the virtual network I see described at length in the various resources? Our home network works fine -- I''m using Thunderbird right now to talk to you, and I have a dozen xen-related pages open in Firefox right now. I see repeated references to a "bridge" system for networking the virtual machines and letting them communicate with one another and with the Internet. This is one of the things I understood was created by default when dom0 came up. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users