similar to: Using CD drives with Xen 3.0.3 on CentOS 4.4

Hi all, I have installed SLES10 as a guest on a para-virtualized XEN 3.0.4. the host system is SLES10. Now I want to add a cdrom to the guest machine, when I do that by using "xm block-attach" it adds a new hard disk to the guest not a cdrom. Also I need to make the guest boot from cd. Thanks _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list

Hi: we have following setup: 1. 2.6.16-33-based Xen 3.0.3/Xen-3.0.4 DOM-0 kernels. 2. Using LILO-mbootpack from USB we boot Xen-->DOM-0 setup 3. We mount harddisk and try to install xp.hvm While,we are successful with FCs as DOM-U, for XP we get, VBD (768) could not be connected. We do have max_loop count to 64 and enough loop devices. Note that above error is consistent on both 3.0.3

I have couple question about using Xen in the "real" world. My test box is a Dell Optiplex 745 with a Core 2 processor and 4 G of RAM. I am using 64 bit Centos 5 with Xen 3.03. Right now I have it set up so Dom0 is my working domain and I add other DomU for whatever tests i need to do. From what I''ve read here, this is not the best way to do things. So my first question is,

Hi everybody, I seen many post on running Windows XP on the top of Xen with proper hardware (Intel Vt) ... I would like to know if at this time, i could do that with Xen 3.0.2-2 or Xen unstable ? If yes, could you tell me the procedure ... In 2 week i will make a show with Intel to demonstrate this possibility ... If at this time we couldn''t, i will change the contents of the show ;)

Hi All, We contributed the problem when CD-ROM was changed as follows. There was especially no comment though we confirmed the correction method. Therefore, the patch that corrects these problems is contributed. Signed-off-by: Takanori Kasai <kasai.takanori@jp.fujitsu.com> Best Regards, --- Takanori Kasai ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kasai Takanori"

I''m running Xen on RHEL5. I''ve got two problems with CD-ROMs. In my .hvm file, I''ve got the following line: disk = [ ''phy:/dev/VG_Guests/WinXP-001,ioemu:hda,w'', ''file:/opt/xen_stuff/winxp.iso,hdc:cdrom,w'', ''phy:/dev/scd0,hdd:cdrom,r'' ] The first CD-ROM, (the one linking to the file winxp.iso), appears to WinXP to

I have a sles10 domU running on a sles11 dom0. xen is version 3.4. We''re trying to pass through a scsi card to the domU. We assign the domU the scsi card through virt manager. When we try to boot the domU it won''t boot. We need to update fstab and menu.lst, but we need to boot with the hardware attached to see how it''s being seen by the domU. On a physical machine we

Mount CD ROM iso during kickstart postinstall CentOS 5.2 i386 I''m doing a xen virtual machine installation from a DVD iso image with a kickstart file to set network and run scripts and such in the postinstall section. During the installation the DVD iso is listed as device /tmp/cdrom and mounted on /mnt/source. Once the installation is done and the post install starts the /tmp/cdrom

I am trying to install CentOS from an ISO image file but the installer does not see a CD-ROM drive. The VNC viewer works but the CentOS installer indicates "Unable to find any devices of the type needed for this installation type." Then it prompts with "[Select driver] [Use a driver disk] [Back]". I have tried several variations of the "disk" paramater, all

I had this happen to me on FC4 using 3.0.2-2 Xen. I updated the various external dependencies and rebuilt xen and tools and was able to sucessfully install FC4 in a hvm. I will give winxp a go later in the afternoon. C ________________________________ From: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Rene Purcell Sent: Friday, April

Hi list, I''m using Dom0 gentoo with xen 3.0.4 and xenman. I have several DomU working and it is really nice :) so all my DomUs are installed with disk images. Now i want to use an ISO to boot and install a linux system (or win). When i try to boot the DomU i dont have nothing, nothing relevant (for me) in logs and i can connect to the console. The state of the DomU is unknow. Any help

I''ve recently installed Debian Lenny witch Xen (xen-utils, xen.tools and xen-linux-system-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64). I want to virtualize some windows servers, but I''m unable to connect to localhost VNC when I start the vm (xm create) to proceed with windows instalation. The VM config is: import os, re arch = os.uname()[4] if re.search(''64'', arch):

I''m using Xen 3.1.0 on Debian etch, kernel 2.6.18-4-xen-amd64. One of the guests runs Windows XP. I am trying to install an application (Autodesk Inventor) that spans two DVDs. The config file for the domain in question contains: disk = [ ''phy:/dev/volgrp0/halebopp,ioemu:hda,w'', '',hdc:cdrom,r'' ] I ran "xm block-list halebopp --long" and

Hi there, Last night I was trying to start a HVM domU via stubdom-dm device model. Initially I did not receive any error to stdout when I did so with Xen-3.4.2. My Xen-3.4.2 installation works fine with qemu-dm (or regular HVM guests). The stubdom-dm guest I was trying to create did not really operate as I was unable to connect to the VNC console. The output of xm list showed the DomU was there,

Hi there, Last night I was trying to start a HVM domU via stubdom-dm device model. Initially I did not receive any error to stdout when I did so with Xen-3.4.2. My Xen-3.4.2 installation works fine with qemu-dm (or regular HVM guests). The stubdom-dm guest I was trying to create did not really operate as I was unable to connect to the VNC console. The output of xm list showed the DomU was there,

(The list appears to have eaten my previous attempt to send this. Apologies if you receive multiple copies.) The attached patches allow you to use paravirtualised network and block interfaces from fully virtualised domains, based on Intel''s patches from a few months ago. These are significantly faster than the equivalent ioemu devices, sometimes by more than an order of magnitude.

I am using Xen 3.3 from source. My PV guest boots fine with the normal kernel and initrd options When I boot the guest with PV GRUB I only get: GNU GRUB version 0.97 (65536K lower / 0K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible

Hi, im trying to attach another volume aka disk to win HVM, however it doesn''t seem to work: + xm block-attach win2008ss phy:/dev/zvol/dsk/pool1/win2008ss.dsk2 \ hdd:disk w 0 results in: elkner.sol ~ > + xm block-list win2008ss --long (0 (vbd (uuid 7cb8fadf-619d-dde6-bda9-dcc18023c7d5) (bootable 1) (devid 768) (driver paravirtualised)

Hi, first of all, my name is Karsten and I am fairly new to xen. A former colleague of mine has set up a xen dom0 with 4 virtual machines runnig on it. A few months ago this colleague left the company. Last week our office Building has been hit by a lightning wich resulted in an power blackout. After the power went back again, the system booted and all but one of the virtual machines went

Hi All, Hope I''m not too annoying yet.. I have CentOS 5.4 running as Domain 0. I can create CentOS guest domains via network using virt-install. However that''s a bit slow, and I don''t want to repeat the download process again if I create new guest domains. So my questions: - Can I create guest CentOS domains using virt-install and specify a dvd iso image as its