Andy Burns
2007-Oct-05 19:00 UTC
[Fedora-xen] virt-manager "Cannot allocate memory" creating Win2K3 HVM
Configuration of dom0 is as follows 8GB memory 2 x dual core Xeon kernel-xen.x86_64 2.6.20-2931.fc7 xen.x86_64 3.1.0-2.fc7 xen-libs.x86_64 3.1.0-2.fc7 libvirt.x86_64 0.3.2-1.fc7 virt-manager-0.4.0-2.fc7 I''m trying to install a win2K3 32bit HVM domU using /cd.iso file local to dom0 LVM partition /dev/vgmirror/win2k3 as domU disk bridged eth0 network 1024MB memory for domU (have tried with lower memory) Fails with POST operation failed: (xend.err "Error creating domain: (12, ''Cannot allocate memory'')") Rebooting the dom0 is to be avoided if possible due to other paravirt domU guests running, any suggestions or extra info that might help? I have managed to successfully create a win2K3 64bit HVM domU on an identical dom0 server.
Andy Burns
2007-Oct-05 20:16 UTC
[Fedora-xen] Re: virt-manager "Cannot allocate memory" creating Win2K3 HVM
On 05/10/2007, Andy Burns <fedora.lists@burns.me.uk> wrote:> Rebooting the dom0 is to be avoided if possibleCouldn''t think of anything else, so I did have to reboot, started a couple of important domU guests and then installed the Win2K3 ok. One question about windows HVM installation, given that virt-manager has the hint that windows is the os being installed, why does the installer delete the CD-DROM driver after the text part of install? this guarantees that the GUI part will fail due to being unable to copy remaining files from CD, the error message windows gives is none to helpful either (can''t blame xen/virt-manager for that I guess) My way around this problem is to virsh dumpxml the domU to a file while the text part of install is on-going, then when it reboots I virsh undefine it and virsh define it back from the file again. Is there any prospect of this being handled in a more user-friendly way with FC8?