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Hello! I was asking for help on the Freenode channel, and I was pointed here. I have a situation where, using xl, I can create a functional PV domU, with or without pv-grub, but I cannot access the console. Firing up xend and using xm works without trouble. Since xend and company is being deprecated, I would like to transition to using the xl toolstack. The system is an Arch Linux system

Dear xen-users. First of all, I''m not a linux-guru and a beginner with xen and completly new in this mailinglist. I''ve installed Xen on debian 6 and I was successful creating two machines: one for tests and "fogserver" (to test speed of writing computer images), both para-virtualisations.

Hi all, I had met with a question about vhd format when i install xen 4.2.0 source code on suse11_x86_64_sp2. execute steps: 1)Install fully suse 11 sp2 to host pc 2)Boot from Xen kernel menu 3)Download xen 4.2.0 source code from http://xen.org/download/index_4.2.0.html 4)Download bin86-0.16.19.tar.gz cmake-2.8.9.tar.gz Dev86src-0.16.19.tar.gz gettext-0.18.1.1.tar.gz

First let me say that I'm not a sysadmin, but am simply wearing that hat this week so please excuse my ignorance. I need to temporarily move some virtual servers from a CentOS-KVM platform to a CentOS-XEN platform while I do some upgrades to the CentOS box. I've created a local LV, and used DD and SCP to transfer the block device from the VKM machine to the XEN machine. For quite a

After a yum update my two guests that had been shutdown do not start any more. I have two other guests running that seem to work okay but I am now afraid that they won't come up again if I restart them. I am running CentOS5 with kernel 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5xen. Previously I had following xen versions installed: Oct 14 23:45:10 Updated: xen-libs.i386 3.0.3-25.0.4.el5 Oct 14 23:46:05 Updated:

I am running Xen 4.0.1 with a 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5xen CentOS Dom0. I built and installed the Xen binaries from source. The systems boot successfully however I am having issues bring up DomUs. Here is config: name = ''xyz'' memory = 256 vcpus = 1 pae = 1 vnc = 1 vncunused = 1 disk = [ ''phy:/dev/vg1/xyz,hda,w'' ] vif = [

Hi, I migrate Xen4.0 to XEN4.1, and found XEN4.1 performance is not as good as 4.0.2. xm shutdown takes longer time, control thru libvirt take longer time, and since I''m testing PCI/VGA passthru, the "createdevice: pci" also take around 5~8 seconds comparing to 1 second in XEN4.0.2. below is my configuration, do you have any suggestions to make the performance better?

I was trying to install a guest OS with the following command. $ virt-install -r 1024 --accelerate -n ubuntu-first-test -f /var/lib/libvirt/images/guest.img --cdrom /root/ubuntu-12.04-desktop-i386.iso --hvm and it says the following. Starting install... ERROR POST operation failed: xend_post: error from xen daemon: <Fault 3: ''ubuntu-first-test''> Domain installation

Hello, It looks like xen 4.1.2* has some problems with solaris 11 iso images too (s. further below log messages) hvm-solaris11.born2b3.net.cfg # --- kernel = ''/usr/lib64/xen-default/boot/hvmloader'' builder = ''hvm'' device_model= ''/usr/lib64/xen-4.1/bin/qemu-dm'' name = ''solaris11hvm.born2b3.net'' acpi =

I am running Xen 4.0.1 with a 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5xen CentOS Dom0. I built and installed the Xen binaries from source. The systems boot successfully however I am having issues bring up DomUs. Here is config: name = ''xyz'' memory = 256 vcpus = 1 pae = 1 vnc = 1 vncunused = 1 disk = [ ''phy:/dev/vg1/xyz,hda,w'' ] vif = [

Hi guys I have few problems with live migration ... and I need some professional help :) I have 2 xen servers ... CentOS 5.3 and I want to have a high available cluster Now let`s begin .... xen0: [root@xen0 ~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 218.2 GB, 218238025728 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 26532 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start

Hello, I want to install a DomU with Fedora 19 in a Debian Host Dom0 with the following versions... ii libc6-xen:i386 2.13-38 i386 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries [Xen version] ii libxen-4.1 4.1.4-3+deb7u1 i386 Public libs for Xen ii libxenstore3.0 4.1.4-3+deb7u1 i386

Hallo, I have an installed Windows 7 on one partition and running Debain Squeeze on the other. Both are 64 bit. I want to use Xen to run Windows as virtual guest from a physical disk. Once I get this working the Window will never be booted directly. When I try to create the virtual machine by "xm create -c win.xen" it hangs. The versions I use Xen 4.0.1-4 Kernel 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64

Hi, since I upgraded from Lenny, DRBD VBD scripts not works at all. This config works : disk = [ 'phy:/dev/drbd/by-res/ads-disk,xvda,w' ] But his one doesn't work at all : disk = [ 'drbd:ads-disk,xvda,w' ] I obtain this error : # xm create ads.cfg Using config file "/etc/xen/ads.cfg". Error: Device 51712 (vbd) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts

Hello, I have 2 Dell 1955 blade servers, running RHEL5-Xen. I''m testing the migrate functionality from one blade to another. I can start the domain, move it to one blade (minor delay/packet loss) and everything is fine. When I try to move it back to the original blade the migration fails and the DomU crashes c1b1 = Blade 1 (192.168.131.201) c1b2 = Blade 2

the contexts are as follows, looking forward to your reply, thanks [1]enviromention : xen3.4.2+CentOS-5.5 [2]config file: xp.hvm, as follows _s_name = 'xp-101' _s_vnc_display = 5310 _s_vm_id = 101 _s_vm_mac = '00:16:3e:eb:ca:65' _s_memory = 512 _s_allow_destroy = False _s_use_vnc = True # -*- mode: python; -*-

Hi All I have xen 4.0 in centos dom0 the machine was working fine for months and yesterday out of sudden I can no longer provision new vms and to make things worst If any vm shutdown I cannot re run it again . the vm stop at the process of detecting the (ubuntu and debian all versions) [!] Detect Disks "No disk drive was detected. If you know the name of the driver needed by your disk

Dear,Beg for your help. I am really puzzled with this problem.HVM domain can not boot up with Qcow incremental image(using command: qcow-create size incremental_file original_Qcow_img_file), but it can boot up with the original Qcow disk image file. When using Qcow incremental image, the guest qemu window would disappear before loading grub, and `xm list` can not find this guest domain.The VM

Hi, I installed the xen in server with CentOS 6, but not create vm. [root@localhost oracleteste]# xm create oracleteste.cfg Using config file "./oracleteste.cfg". Started domain oracleteste (id=9) [root@localhost oracleteste]# xm list Name                                        ID   Mem VCPUs      State   Time(s) Domain-0                                     0  1024     1     r-----   

Hi! Please help me. # xm create win7.hvm Using config file "./win7.hvm". Error: Device 768 (vbd) could not be connected. Path closed or removed during hotplug add: backend/vbd/9/768 state: 1 grep -v ^# /etc/xen/win7.hvm | grep -vx '''' kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader" builder=''hvm'' memory = 2048 name = "win7" vif = [