Fedora xen - Nov 2006 - No console and other woes Xen and FC6

OK, I''m using (or trying to use) Xen on FC6, everything completely bog
standard. I''m obviously really missing something because I''ve
been going
nowhere.

 

I can fire up the vm manager GUI, configure a new vm, drop FC6 on it (and
obviously see the domain-0), both the Xen demons are running. However, after
the vm tries to reboot during the install, it *disappears* from the vm
manager, and try as I might I can''t find a way to restart the vm.

 

So then I tried saving the sate of the vm before rebooting it, using the
"save" menu item, which I presume squirts some kind of state image to
disk.
However, I can''t get on the console of a saved and restored machine
using
the virtual machine manager, I just get a message saying "The console is
currently unavailable" despite the fact that the vm manger quite happily
says the vm is running.

 

Also, the vm manager *deletes* the state image without offering you the
opportunity to preserve it as soon as you "restore" it! 

 

I think the menu terminology used for this user interface is not very well
thought out really. Perhaps "Irretrievably Break" would be a better
label
than "Restore" on the menu for this item?

 

Anyway, I''m sure it''s all good stuff, I just need to find out
how to make it
work before chucking the computer off my fifth floor balcony.

 

Any advice gratefully received..

 

 

 

Cheers

 

Ben

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 02:50:43PM -0000, Ben Evans
wrote:
> OK, I''m using (or trying to use) Xen on FC6, everything completely
bog
> standard. I''m obviously really missing something because
I''ve been going
> nowhere.
> 
>  
> 
> I can fire up the vm manager GUI, configure a new vm, drop FC6 on it (and
> obviously see the domain-0), both the Xen demons are running. However,
after
> the vm tries to reboot during the install, it *disappears* from the vm
> manager, and try as I might I can''t find a way to restart the vm.
  this is being worked on. At this point you need to run ''xm create
$vm_name''
as root to start an halted domain.
> Also, the vm manager *deletes* the state image without offering you the
> opportunity to preserve it as soon as you "restore" it! 
  That''s normal. The state of the system is also tied to the state of
the
disk images. If you were to restore, halt, and restart from the restore point
you would just run off filesystems in a different state and nearly garanteed
to corrupt the disk images.
> I think the menu terminology used for this user interface is not very well
> thought out really. Perhaps "Irretrievably Break" would be a
better label
> than "Restore" on the menu for this item?
  Save and Restore are the canonical names for those operation you would
find in operating system courses.

Daniel

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