xen discuss - Apr 2008 - Stuck trying to install a Centos 5.1 DomU under snv_87

I launch virt-install and everything seems to go fine.  It boots the Centos ISO
and drops me at the language screen.  I select the language and then get to the
"installation method" menu.

At this point, I''m stuck.  I was expecting either the "local
CDROM" or "Hard Drive" choices to find the original iso
somewhere, but that doesn''t seem to be the case.  Local CDROM dumps me
at "No Driver Found" and "Hard Drive" complains that I
"don''t seem to have any hard drives".

I had the same issue with the jailtime image.  It wants something from which to
install, yet I can''t seem to force anything to mount.  I tried a couple
of different things to try to get that stupid iso mounted somewhere in the DomU,
but nothing seems to work.

Any suggestions?


bash-3.2# uname -a
SunOS s0 5.11 snv_87 i86pc i386 i86xpv

This is what the session starts off with:
bash-3.2# virt-install 
Would you like a fully virtualized guest (yes or no)?  This will allow you to
run unmodified operating systems. no
 What is the name of your virtual machine? centos64-2
 How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)? 512
 What would you like to use as the disk (path)? /root/xen/centosdisk.img
 Would you like to enable graphics support? (yes or no) no
 What is the install location? /root/xen/domu-centos-5.1-x64/centos-5.1-x64.iso
 

Starting install...
libvir: Xen Daemon error : GET operation failed: 
libvir: Xen Daemon error : GET operation failed: 
Creating domain...                                                 0 B 00:01 
Bootdata ok (command line is 
method=/root/xen/domu-centos-5.1-x64/centos-5.1-x64.iso)
Linux version 2.6.18-53.el5xen (mockbuild@builder6.centos.org) (gcc version
4.1.2 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-14)) #1 SMP Mon Nov 12 02:46:57 EST 2007
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000020800000 (usable)
No mptable found.
Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 133120
Kernel command line:  method=/root/xen/domu-centos-5.1-x64/centos-5.1-x64.iso
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes)
Xen reported: 1861.914 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Software IO TLB disabled
Memory: 500480k/532480k available (2357k kernel code, 23224k reserved, 1326k
data, 172k init)
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4657.95 BogoMIPS (lpj=9315911)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux:  Initializing.
selinux_register_security:  Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized as secondary
Mount-cache hash table entries: 256
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 4096K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 2
(SMP-)alternatives turned off
Brought up 1 CPUs
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Grant table initialized
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI Exception (utmutex-0262): AE_BAD_PARAMETER, Thread 207A0 could not acquire
Mutex [2] [20060707]
ACPI Exception (utmutex-0262): AE_BAD_PARAMETER, Thread 207A0 could not acquire
Mutex [2] [20060707]
Brought up 1 CPUs
PCI: setting up Xen PCI frontend stub
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
xen_mem: Initialising balloon driver.
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: System does not support PCI
PCI: System does not support PCI
NetLabel: Initializing
NetLabel:  domain hash size = 128
NetLabel:  protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
NetLabel:  unlabeled traffic allowed by default
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1209409693.078:1): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
ksign: Installing public key data
Loading keyring
- Added public key FA719CFD42DF8150
- User ID: CentOS (Kernel Module GPG key)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
rtc: IRQ 8 is not free.
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 4096 blocksize
Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0
Bootdata ok (command line is 
method=/root/xen/domu-centos-5.1-x64/centos-5.1-x64.iso)
Linux version 2.6.18-53.el5xen (mockbuild@builder6.centos.org) (gcc version
4.1.2 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-14)) #1 SMP Mon Nov 12 02:46:57 EST 2007
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000020800000 (usable)
No mptable found.
Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 133120
Kernel command line:  method=/root/xen/domu-centos-5.1-x64/centos-5.1-x64.iso
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes)
Xen reported: 1861.914 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Software IO TLB disabled
Memory: 500480k/532480k available (2357k kernel code, 23224k reserved, 1326k
data, 172k init)
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4657.95 BogoMIPS (lpj=9315911)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux:  Initializing.
selinux_register_security:  Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized as secondary
Mount-cache hash table entries: 256
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 4096K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 2
(SMP-)alternatives turned off
Brought up 1 CPUs
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Grant table initialized
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI Exception (utmutex-0262): AE_BAD_PARAMETER, Thread 207A0 could not acquire
Mutex [2] [20060707]
ACPI Exception (utmutex-0262): AE_BAD_PARAMETER, Thread 207A0 could not acquire
Mutex [2] [20060707]
Brought up 1 CPUs
PCI: setting up Xen PCI frontend stub
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
xen_mem: Initialising balloon driver.
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: System does not support PCI
PCI: System does not support PCI
NetLabel: Initializing
NetLabel:  domain hash size = 128
NetLabel:  protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
NetLabel:  unlabeled traffic allowed by default
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
Welcome to CentOS                                                               

At which point I''m stuck as it launches into the menu system for
installation without an image to find.
 
 
This message posted from opensolaris.org

> I launch virt-install and everything seems to go
> fine.  It boots the Centos ISO and drops me at the
> language screen.  I select the language and then get
> to the "installation method" menu.
> 
> At this point, I''m stuck.  I was expecting either the
> "local CDROM" or "Hard Drive" choices to find the
> original iso somewhere, but that doesn''t seem to be
> the case.  Local CDROM dumps me at "No Driver Found"
> and "Hard Drive" complains that I "don''t seem to
have
> any hard drives".
> 
> I had the same issue with the jailtime image.  It
> wants something from which to install, yet I can''t
> seem to force anything to mount.  I tried a couple of
> different things to try to get that stupid iso
> mounted somewhere in the DomU, but nothing seems to
> work.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> 
> bash-3.2# uname -a
> SunOS s0 5.11 snv_87 i86pc i386 i86xpv
> 
> This is what the session starts off with:
> bash-3.2# virt-install 
> Would you like a fully virtualized guest (yes or no)?
> This will allow you to run unmodified operating
>  systems. no
> What is the name of your virtual machine? centos64-2
> How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)?
>  512
> What would you like to use as the disk (path)?
> /root/xen/centosdisk.img
> Would you like to enable graphics support? (yes or
>  no) no
> What is the install location?
> /root/xen/domu-centos-5.1-x64/centos-5.1-x64.iso
***********************************
That is a standard procedure
***********************************
Make sure your default-nic is GLDV3 like:-
1.)
bash-3.2# dladm show-link
LINK STATE SPEED DUPLEX
rge0     up           100Mb    full
2.)
bash-3.2# svccfg -s xend listprop|grep default-nic
config/default-nic astring rge0
3.)
bash-3.2# lofiadm -a /export/home/isos/RHEL51.iso
/dev/lofi/1
bash-3.2# mount -o ro -F hsfs /dev/lofi/1 /mnt
bash-3.2# share -F nfs /mnt
********************
Run virt-install:-
********************
bash-3.2# virt-install -n CentOS51 -r 512 --vcpus=1 --nographics --os-type=linux
\
-p -f /dev/zvol/dsk/vmpool/snv85-disk -l  nfs:192.168.1.41:/mnt   -d


>  
> 
> Starting install...
> libvir: Xen Daemon error : GET operation failed: 
> libvir: Xen Daemon error : GET operation failed: 
> Creating domain...
> 0 B
> 00:01 
> Bootdata ok (command line is
>  method=/root/xen/domu-centos-5.1-x64/centos-5.1-x64.i
> o)
> Linux version 2.6.18-53.el5xen
> (mockbuild@builder6.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2
> 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-14)) #1 SMP Mon Nov 12
> 02:46:57 EST 2007
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
>  Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000020800000 (usable)
> o mptable found.
> Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 133120
> Kernel command line:
>  method=/root/xen/domu-centos-5.1-x64/centos-5.1-x64.i
> o
> Initializing CPU#0
> PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768
> bytes)
> Xen reported: 1861.914 MHz processor.
> Console: colour dummy device 80x25
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8,
> 1048576 bytes)
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7,
> 524288 bytes)
> Software IO TLB disabled
> Memory: 500480k/532480k available (2357k kernel code,
> 23224k reserved, 1326k data, 172k init)
> Calibrating delay using timer specific routine..
> 4657.95 BogoMIPS (lpj=9315911)
> Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
> SELinux:  Initializing.
> selinux_register_security:  Registering secondary
> module capability
> Capability LSM initialized as secondary
> Mount-cache hash table entries: 256
> CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
> CPU: L2 cache: 4096K
> CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
> CPU: Processor Core ID: 2
> (SMP-)alternatives turned off
> Brought up 1 CPUs
> checking if image is initramfs... it is
> Grant table initialized
> NET: Registered protocol family 16
> ACPI Exception (utmutex-0262): AE_BAD_PARAMETER,
> Thread 207A0 could not acquire Mutex [2] [20060707]
> ACPI Exception (utmutex-0262): AE_BAD_PARAMETER,
> Thread 207A0 could not acquire Mutex [2] [20060707]
> Brought up 1 CPUs
> PCI: setting up Xen PCI frontend stub
> ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
> Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
> pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
> xen_mem: Initialising balloon driver.
> usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
> usbcore: registered new driver hub
> PCI: System does not support PCI
> PCI: System does not support PCI
> NetLabel: Initializing
> NetLabel:  domain hash size = 128
> NetLabel:  protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
> NetLabel:  unlabeled traffic allowed by default
> NET: Registered protocol family 2
> IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6,
> 262144 bytes)
> TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 9,
> 2097152 bytes)
> TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576
> bytes)
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind
> 65536)
> TCP reno registered
> audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
> audit(1209409693.078:1): initialized
> VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
> Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096
> bytes)
> Initializing Cryptographic API
> ksign: Installing public key data
> Loading keyring
> - Added public key FA719CFD42DF8150
> - User ID: CentOS (Kernel Module GPG key)
> io scheduler noop registered
> io scheduler anticipatory registered
> io scheduler deadline registered
> io scheduler cfq registered (default)
> pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
> rtc: IRQ 8 is not free.
> Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
> Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
> RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K
> size 4096 blocksize
> Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0
> Bootdata ok (command line is
>  method=/root/xen/domu-centos-5.1-x64/centos-5.1-x64.i
> o)
> Linux version 2.6.18-53.el5xen
> (mockbuild@builder6.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2
> 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-14)) #1 SMP Mon Nov 12
> 02:46:57 EST 2007
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
>  Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000020800000 (usable)
> o mptable found.
> Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 133120
> Kernel command line:
>  method=/root/xen/domu-centos-5.1-x64/centos-5.1-x64.i
> o
> Initializing CPU#0
> PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768
> bytes)
> Xen reported: 1861.914 MHz processor.
> Console: colour dummy device 80x25
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8,
> 1048576 bytes)
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7,
> 524288 bytes)
> Software IO TLB disabled
> Memory: 500480k/532480k available (2357k kernel code,
> 23224k reserved, 1326k data, 172k init)
> Calibrating delay using timer specific routine..
> 4657.95 BogoMIPS (lpj=9315911)
> Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
> SELinux:  Initializing.
> selinux_register_security:  Registering secondary
> module capability
> Capability LSM initialized as secondary
> Mount-cache hash table entries: 256
> CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
> CPU: L2 cache: 4096K
> CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
> CPU: Processor Core ID: 2
> (SMP-)alternatives turned off
> Brought up 1 CPUs
> checking if image is initramfs... it is
> Grant table initialized
> NET: Registered protocol family 16
> ACPI Exception (utmutex-0262): AE_BAD_PARAMETER,
> Thread 207A0 could not acquire Mutex [2] [20060707]
> ACPI Exception (utmutex-0262): AE_BAD_PARAMETER,
> Thread 207A0 could not acquire Mutex [2] [20060707]
> Brought up 1 CPUs
> PCI: setting up Xen PCI frontend stub
> ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
> Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
> pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
> xen_mem: Initialising balloon driver.
> usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
> usbcore: registered new driver hub
> PCI: System does not support PCI
> PCI: System does not support PCI
> NetLabel: Initializing
> NetLabel:  domain hash size = 128
> NetLabel:  protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
> NetLabel:  unlabeled traffic allowed by default
> NET: Registered protocol family 2
> IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6,
> 262144 bytes)
> TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 9,
> 2097152 bytes)
> TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576
> bytes)
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind
> 65536)
> Welcome to CentOS
> 
> 
> 
> At which point I''m stuck as it launches into the menu
> system for installation without an image to find.
 
 
This message posted from opensolaris.org

Actually, installing any Linux DomU  you are supposed to  lofiadm  Linux ISO
image and mount
it as NFS shared directory  at local or remote host. Virt-install''s 
--location should be referencing this NFS share to succeed with DomU install, no
matter is it SNV or Linux Dom0.
 
 
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Everything was fine up until the virt-install

It claims: "Error  That directory could not be mounted from the
server."  Unfortunately, that seems to be its generic error for anything
from IP doesn''t exist, mount point doesn''t exist, or universe
blew up.

I have verified that I can mount the NFS directory from other computers. 
I''m betting that it is not setting up the networking properly.  I have
tried both DHCP and manual.  DHCP just dumps me back at the original screen. 
Manual spends a lot of time "determining host name and domain" for no
readily apparent reason (it doesn''t give me the option to specify those
manually).

It appears that the system is trying to use bnx0 in spite of being told to use
bnx1.  Is this a bug or user error?

Any other suggestions for pounding this into submission?

bash-3.2# dladm show-link
LINK        CLASS    MTU    STATE    OVER
bnx0        phys     1500   down     --
bnx1        phys     1500   up       --
vnic2       vnic     1500   unknown  bnx0
bash-3.2# svccfg -s xend listprop
config                              application
config/dom0-cpus                    integer  0
config/enable-dump                  boolean  true
config/stability                    astring  Unstable
config/xend-relocation-address      astring  127.0.0.1
config/xend-relocation-hosts-allow  astring  ^localhost$
config/xend-relocation-server       boolean  true
config/xend-unix-server             boolean  true
config/dom0-min-mem                 integer  1024
config/default-nic                  astring  bnx1
xenstored                           dependency
xenstored/entities                  fmri     svc:/system/xvm/store
xenstored/grouping                  astring  require_all
xenstored/restart_on                astring  restart
xenstored/type                      astring  service
general                             framework
general/entity_stability            astring  Unstable
general/single_instance             boolean  true
start                               method
start/exec                          astring  "/lib/svc/method/xend %m"
start/timeout_seconds               count    0
start/type                          astring  method
stop                                method
stop/exec                           astring  :kill
stop/timeout_seconds                count    60
stop/type                           astring  method
tm_common_name                      template
tm_common_name/C                    ustring  "Hypervisor Control
Daemon"
tm_man_xend                         template
tm_man_xend/manpath                 astring  /usr/share/man
tm_man_xend/section                 astring  1M
tm_man_xend/title                   astring  xend
 
 
This message posted from opensolaris.org

Just a guess:-
# infconfig bnx0 unplumb
# ifconfig -a
to remove vnic''s line from  report above
 
 
This message posted from opensolaris.org

Another option on development box:-
# sys-unconfig
 
 
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