Hello all,
I am new to Xen; I followed a few techtips/technotes from How2forge
and other linux sites to walk me through configuring the following:
- proper installation of xen kernel on a CentOS 5.1 server
- booting into the xen kernel and checking the Dom0 (all is fine):
[root at dataserv3 /]# xm list
Name ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State Time(s)
Domain-0 0 1737 2 r----- 1155.0
- Next instructions that attempt to walk me through installing my
first guest OS via "virt-install" and/or "virtual manager" -
both
allowed me to get to the point of where the guest DomU is created ...
and it's at 12%; the CLI install process tells me to access the
console - but I am unable to console into the new guest DomU.
xm list now shows:
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xm list
Name ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State Time(s)
Domain-0 0 1737 2 r----- 1155.0
centos50 2 255 1 ------ 0.0
xm console centos50 gives me an error:
xm console centos50
xenconsole: Could not read tty from store: No such file or directory
While running the Virtual Machine Mgr GUI - when I click on my guest
DomU - its console window appears gray with a message "The console is
currently unavailable".
Questions:
1. Is there a link or some paper that I may have missed that outlines
potential issues in configuring Xen guest machines using virt-install
and/or Virtual Machine Mgr?
2. Any thoughts as to what steps or packages did I miss so that I am
not getting a console?
thanks in advance.
- aspasia.
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