I need help....i am on b131 and i can''t even get the virtual machine manager to start. it doesn''t do anything when i click it. Am i missing something important? If there si a guide somewhere i''d really appreciate....all i really want is a small debian install....i can''t find a guide on how to do this anywhere....i don''t mind doing it in the command line if someone can point me in the right direction -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
i keep getting this error.... Could not find an installable distribution at ''/tank/nas/Wonslung/Programs/debian-502-amd64-DVD-1.iso'' I''ve tried netinstalll 501 502 and 504 i know i must be doing something wrong. This is the command i tried: pfexec virt-install -n lenny-hvm -v -r 512 --vnc \ -f /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/xvm/lenny-hvm \ -l /tank/nas/Wonslung/Programs/debian-502-amd64-DVD-1.iso what the heck am i doing wrong: -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
Virt-install and virsh as well works same way as on b130. Virt-manager is nice to have ( python-virtinst), but not required. Libvirt ( virsh scripting via python profiling ) & service libvirtd are OK on 131 --- On Sat, 1/23/10, Thomas Burgess <wonslung@gmail.com> wrote: From: Thomas Burgess <wonslung@gmail.com> Subject: [xen-discuss] xen guide? To: xen-discuss@opensolaris.org Date: Saturday, January 23, 2010, 1:40 PM I need help....i am on b131 and i can''t even get the virtual machine manager to start. it doesn''t do anything when i click it. Am i missing something important? If there si a guide somewhere i''d really appreciate....all i really want is a small debian install....i can''t find a guide on how to do this anywhere....i don''t mind doing it in the command line if someone can point me in the right direction -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list xen-discuss@opensolaris.org
i have never used xen before and i''m new to opensolaris. I can''t get debian to install in xen, and i can''t get the gui vm manager to start at all I DID find a guide for installing centos on xen and it seems to be doing more than debian did, right now i THINK it is installing....but i''d much rather have a debian based xen install as i know how to use debian much better than centos if someone could explain how to get debian going in xen i''d be very appreciative =) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
Hi Thomas, http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+xen/docs http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+xen/virtinstall I followed those guides and had success, of course I didn''t install debian, but I am sure its the same process. Good luck! Tommy On Jan 23, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Thomas Burgess wrote:> i have never used xen before and i''m new to opensolaris. > > I can''t get debian to install in xen, and i can''t get the gui vm manager to start at all > > I DID find a guide for installing centos on xen and it seems to be doing more than debian did, right now i THINK it is installing....but i''d much rather have a debian based xen install as i know how to use debian much better than centos > > if someone could explain how to get debian going in xen i''d be very appreciative =) > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > xen-discuss mailing list > xen-discuss@opensolaris.org
another thing i''d like to bring up: the gui for xVM doesn''t seem to work for me. i double click it and nothing happens. Do i need to install some package to make it work? i''m on b131 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
It doesn''t work for me either, I just use "virt-install" and "virsh" on the command line. I think its a python/module version mismatch problem. Last time I tried it, I was on like 128. Tommy On Jan 23, 2010, at 5:31 PM, Thomas Burgess wrote:> another thing i''d like to bring up: > > the gui for xVM doesn''t seem to work for me. > > i double click it and nothing happens. > > Do i need to install some package to make it work? > i''m on b131 > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > xen-discuss mailing list > xen-discuss@opensolaris.org
man....this is driving me nuts.. I finally got it working in pvm mode and...it worked until i tried to set up a static ip...i shut it down and started it back up and now it won''t get an ip....i even removed the static dhcp setting i had made and restarted it again.....is there something i need to do to reset the networking on xen? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
ok...this is silly. Somehow eth0 was not set to dhcp anymore....no idea why it worked before i rebooted the machine.....annnnnnyways. it''s all golden now. now i just need to figure out how to make it start at boot and i''m done with the hard stuff. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
Wrong virt-install command line:- pfexec virt-install -n lenny-hvm -v -r 512 --vnc \ -f /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/xvm/lenny-hvm \ -l /tank/nas/Wonslung/Programs/debian-502-amd64-DVD-1.iso Would try :- pfexec virt-install -n lenny-hvm -hvm -r 1024 --vnc \ -f /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/xvm/lenny-hvm \ -c /tank/nas/Wonslung/Programs/debian-502-amd64-DVD-1.iso -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
> man....this is driving me nuts.. > I finally got it working in pvm mode and...it workedCould explain in more details how did you get Debian Lenny PV Guest running at xVM 3.4.2 Dom0 ? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
I''ve finally got it all working....i''m able to add ubuntu and debian pvm and hvm virtual installs no problem now. getting the debian based ones working was failing due to it not having the proper kernel by default. All i needed to do was install linux-image-xen-amd64 then i created a file with this info: cat debian.py name="Debian-pvm" memory=1024 bootloader="/usr/lib/xen/bin/pygrub" kernel="/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64" ramdisk="/boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64" vif=['' ''] disk=[''phy:/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/xvm/debian,xvda,w''] extra="root=/dev/xvda1 ro console=hvc0" The only real issue i have left is: how do i make the gui work? i click it and nothing ever happens......it''s quite annoying and how do i make it automatically start a vm on boot? I''m sure i could use a script or something but is there a "standard" way? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
i also forgot to mention that i edit /etc/inittab and change tty1 to hvc0 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
OK. It''s understandable. Virt-manager doesn''t work on build 131 for myself as well. Please, remember that it''s development build. I don''t know how Sun treat paying customers. Working with with Xen on Fedoras and Ubuntus it''s always possible to get right answer for right question at xen-devel or xen-users mailing lists. Xen-discuss is pretty much silent, even posting here i am not expecting feed at all. Native Xen Hypervisor environment is Linux. In meantime , say on Fedora 12, i may have Xen 3.4.2 & Libvirt 0.7.1-15 Server with 2.6.31.6 pvops or 2.6.31.9 xenified aka Suse kernel and i know for sure that i will get answers to my questions on fedora-xen & fedora-virt or xensource forums. OSOL is very attractive, but . . . . . -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
It took some learning...being new to opensolaris AND xen AT THE SAME TIME. but i finally got xen working the way i want. I don''t blame the opensolaris people for the silence because the community for opensolaris isn''t as big as that of the linux distro''s you mention. I believe it will change though....ZFS is just too awesome and attractive....and using it with xen is REALLY cool....i love zvols + xen and zvols + iscsi....it''s just too cool. anyways, it''s good to know that the gui not working isn''t just my error, it''s everyone. does anyone know if it is slated to work in b132? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
b132 was supposed to be OSOL 2010-02. --- On Tue, 1/26/10, Thomas Burgess <wonslung@gmail.com> wrote: From: Thomas Burgess <wonslung@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [xen-discuss] xen guide? To: xen-discuss@opensolaris.org Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 3:38 PM It took some learning...being new to opensolaris AND xen AT THE SAME TIME. but i finally got xen working the way i want. I don''t blame the opensolaris people for the silence because the community for opensolaris isn''t as big as that of the linux distro''s you mention. I believe it will change though....ZFS is just too awesome and attractive.....and using it with xen is REALLY cool....i love zvols + xen and zvols + iscsi....it''s just too cool. anyways, it''s good to know that the gui not working isn''t just my error, it''s everyone. does anyone know if it is slated to work in b132? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list xen-discuss@opensolaris.org
Thomas Burgess wrote:> > anyways, it''s good to know that the gui not working isn''t just my error, it''s everyone. > > does anyone know if it is slated to work in b132?I have filed a bug... I have no idea the status of it though. virt-manager is done by a different group within Sun. MRJ
Mark Johnson wrote:> > > Thomas Burgess wrote: >> >> anyways, it''s good to know that the gui not working isn''t just my >> error, it''s everyone. >> >> does anyone know if it is slated to work in b132? > > I have filed a bug... I have no idea the status of it though. > virt-manager is done by a different group within Sun.FYI, They came back and said it''s fixed in b132... MRJ
> > I have filed a bug... I have no idea the status of > it though. > > virt-manager is done by a different group within > Sun. > > FYI, They came back and said it''s fixed in b132... > > > MRJI would be wondering, who''s responsible for virt-install to run in VNC mode and pops up VNC console installing F12 or CentOS 5.4 for instance ? It happens on different Intel Boxes (Quad and Core2Duo with 8 GB RAM, dom0_mem=2048M) since you moved to xVM 3.4.2 ( b129). I understand that something is going wrong with VNC/GDM setup itself, however it affects xVM 3.4.2, even if python-virtinst is OK -- This message posted from opensolaris.org