Jonathan White
2010-Jul-26 02:17 UTC
[Xen-devel] Unable to start a guest in Xen 4.0.1-rc5-pre
Hello again, Quick recap: I have a working Xen 4.0.1-rc5-pre booting smoothly on x86_64 on a FC12 Linux platfrom. xend starts automatically and xm list shows the Dom0. I disabled selinux by adding selinux=0 in the kernel line in grub.conf for the Xen kernel. Now I would like to run a simple guest domain (Linux or Windows). Ideally I would like to install a fresh HVM domain (preferably Windows XP) I have been trying to start a simple guest but have been unsuccessful so far. The examples in the user.pdf document is Xen 3.3 based and assumes the presence of a /boot/vmlinuz-2.6-domU kernel image which does not get built in Xen 4.0. I unsucessfully tried the following: 1. I created a 8GB empty disk image using dd (see below) and tried to install a WinXP from a CD, using xm create. The guest domain started but stopped after a few seconds. I took xmexample.hvm in /etc/xen as baseline and edited it. dd if=/dev/zero of=winxp.img bs=1M count=0 seek=8192 2. Same as above, but with Linux FC11 x86_64 CD. 3. I used xmexample1 and tried to launch the vmlinuz-2.6.31.13 that gets built as part of Xen make in /boot. But that too failed to start. My questions is - Is there a step by step instructions somewhere on how to run a simple guest (both paravirtualized - for linux and hvm - for Windows) for Xen 4.0? Preferebly I would like to install fresh guest OS from an install CD. I know I haven''t provided any logs or specific errors, but I can do so if you can share which logs would be interesting. Thanks a lot, Jon _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
Boris Derzhavets
2010-Jul-26 11:02 UTC
Re: [Xen-devel] Unable to start a guest in Xen 4.0.1-rc5-pre
> My questions is - Is there a step by step instructions somewhere on howto run a simple guest (both paravirtualized - for linux and hvm - for Windows) for Xen 4.0? Preferebly I would like to install fresh guest OS from an install CD. View :- Update 07/26/2010 . Set up opensuse 11.3 PV DomU at Xen 4.0.1-rc4 & 2.6.32.16-1.2.108.xendom0.fc13.x86_64 Dom0 on top of F13 http://www.linuxtoday.com/high_performance/2010072200535OSSVSW Boris. P.S. Syntax for HVM virt-install may be viewed at RH''s manuals --- On Sun, 7/25/10, Jonathan White <jonxwhite@gmail.com> wrote: From: Jonathan White <jonxwhite@gmail.com> Subject: [Xen-devel] Unable to start a guest in Xen 4.0.1-rc5-pre To: Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com Date: Sunday, July 25, 2010, 10:17 PM Hello again, Quick recap: I have a working Xen 4.0.1-rc5-pre booting smoothly on x86_64 on a FC12 Linux platfrom. xend starts automatically and xm list shows the Dom0. I disabled selinux by adding selinux=0 in the kernel line in grub.conf for the Xen kernel. Now I would like to run a simple guest domain (Linux or Windows). Ideally I would like to install a fresh HVM domain (preferably Windows XP) I have been trying to start a simple guest but have been unsuccessful so far. The examples in the user.pdf document is Xen 3.3 based and assumes the presence of a /boot/vmlinuz-2.6-domU kernel image which does not get built in Xen 4.0. I unsucessfully tried the following: 1. I created a 8GB empty disk image using dd (see below) and tried to install a WinXP from a CD, using xm create. The guest domain started but stopped after a few seconds. I took xmexample.hvm in /etc/xen as baseline and edited it. dd if=/dev/zero of=winxp.img bs=1M count=0 seek=8192 2. Same as above, but with Linux FC11 x86_64 CD. 3. I used xmexample1 and tried to launch the vmlinuz-2.6.31.13 that gets built as part of Xen make in /boot. But that too failed to start. My questions is - Is there a step by step instructions somewhere on how to run a simple guest (both paravirtualized - for linux and hvm - for Windows) for Xen 4.0? Preferebly I would like to install fresh guest OS from an install CD. I know I haven''t provided any logs or specific errors, but I can do so if you can share which logs would be interesting. Thanks a lot, Jon -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel