Hello,
I now have Windows Vista RC1 attempting to boot using the following hvm
file:
# Automatically generated xen config file
name = "WindowsVistaRC1"
builder = "hvm"
memory = "784"
disk = [ ''phy:/dev/hdc1,hda,w'',
''file:/tmp/WINDOWS_VISTA.iso,hdc:cdrom,r'' ]
vif = [ ''type=ioemu, mac=00:16:3e:0f:a7:08, bridge=xenbr0'', ]
uuid = "7232d84d-f579-a4f1-d190-b31ebb66faf9"
device_model = "/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm"
kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
vnc=1
vncunused=1
#sdl=1
apic=1
acpi=1
pae=1
boot="d"
vcpus=1
serial = "pty" # enable serial console
on_reboot = ''restart''
on_crash = ''destroy''
I can see it boot from the DVD image and start to load the installer. It
gets to the point where the black screen progress bar is at 100% and then I
see the DomU processor drop to 0% and it does nothing.
xend.log shows nothing useful
the qemu-dm.*.log shows:
domid: 28
qemu: the number of cpus is 1
shared page at pfn:30fff, mfn: 3a0af
buffered io page at pfn:30ffd, mfn: 3a0b1
char device redirected to /dev/pts/1
False I/O request ... in-service already: 0, pvalid: 0, port: 0, data: 0,
count: 0, size: 0
and the xend-debug.log shows this:
Nothing to flush.
Nothing to flush.
File
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/server/SrvDomainDir.py",
line 77, in op_create
dominfo = self.xd.domain_create(config)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomain.py", line
228,
in domain_create
dominfo = XendDomainInfo.create(config)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py",
line
195, in create
vm.initDomain()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py",
line
1335, in initDomain
balloon.free(memory + shadow)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/balloon.py", line
166, in
free
raise VmError(
VmError: I need 1070492 KiB, but dom0_min_mem is 262144 and shrinking to
262144 KiB would leave only 773804 KiB free.
I have tried chaning the APIC, ACPI and PAE settings to every possible combo
and it only made it worse.
I did create a partition for this install... Actually I gave it it''s
own
whole disk drive. The partition is /dev/hdc1 but it is not formatted. I
assumed Windows would format it as needed. Does anyone know if it should be
formatted as ext3 for it to work?
--
Ian Patton
Daniel P. Berrange
2006-Nov-23 00:46 UTC
Re: [Fedora-xen] Windows Vista RC1 on Xen 3.0.3 FC6
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 05:58:22PM -0500, Ian Patton wrote:> Hello, > > I now have Windows Vista RC1 attempting to boot using the following hvm > file: > > # Automatically generated xen config file > name = "WindowsVistaRC1" > builder = "hvm" > memory = "784"[snip]> raise VmError( > VmError: I need 1070492 KiB, but dom0_min_mem is 262144 and shrinking to > 262144 KiB would leave only 773804 KiB free.You asked for 784 MB of ram for the guest, but it was only able to free up 773804 KiB from Dom0. Either reduce the amount of RAM you give to the guest, or make more free memory in Dom0. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|
Daniel P. Berrange
2006-Nov-23 01:01 UTC
Re: [Fedora-xen] Windows Vista RC1 on Xen 3.0.3 FC6
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 12:46:55AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:> On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 05:58:22PM -0500, Ian Patton wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I now have Windows Vista RC1 attempting to boot using the following hvm > > file: > > > > # Automatically generated xen config file > > name = "WindowsVistaRC1" > > builder = "hvm" > > memory = "784" > > [snip] > > > raise VmError( > > VmError: I need 1070492 KiB, but dom0_min_mem is 262144 and shrinking to > > 262144 KiB would leave only 773804 KiB free. > > You asked for 784 MB of ram for the guest, but it was only able to free > up 773804 KiB from Dom0. Either reduce the amount of RAM you give to > the guest, or make more free memory in Dom0.I should also mention that the HV will always require a few MB more than you actually request, to maintain the shadow pagetables & other bookeeping data structs. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|
I got the memory warning message to go away... Does anyone know what this means? False I/O request ... in-service already: 0, pvalid: 0, port: 0, data: 0, count: 0, size: 0 My DomU runs for about 5 seconds and then drops to 0% CPU and just shows a black screen Thanks, Ian On 11/22/06, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:> > On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 12:46:55AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 05:58:22PM -0500, Ian Patton wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I now have Windows Vista RC1 attempting to boot using the following > hvm > > > file: > > > > > > # Automatically generated xen config file > > > name = "WindowsVistaRC1" > > > builder = "hvm" > > > memory = "784" > > > > [snip] > > > > > raise VmError( > > > VmError: I need 1070492 KiB, but dom0_min_mem is 262144 and shrinking > to > > > 262144 KiB would leave only 773804 KiB free. > > > > You asked for 784 MB of ram for the guest, but it was only able to free > > up 773804 KiB from Dom0. Either reduce the amount of RAM you give to > > the guest, or make more free memory in Dom0. > > I should also mention that the HV will always require a few MB more than > you actually request, to maintain the shadow pagetables & other bookeeping > data structs. > > Dan. > -- > |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 > -=| > |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ > -=| > |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ > -=| > |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B > 9505 -=| >-- Ian Patton