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Liang Yang

2006-Sep-11 19:13 UTC

[Xen-users] Is RAMDISK required for domU boot?

Hi,

I found one weird thing: I heard RAMDISK is not required for domU, but it
seems I have to add RAMDISK to my domU config file, otherwiese the domU
will hang up when it is booting. Please see the message below, the domU
booting hangs up after "Continuing..."

Does anyone have any clue for this issue? BTW, xen-friendly glibc is already 
installed.

Thanks,

Liang

---Begin of  domU boot message---------------------------------
 xen]# xm create domain1.xm -c
Using config file "domain1.xm".
Started domain domain1
Linux version 2.6.16-xen (root@localhost.localdomain) (gcc version 3.4.6
20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)) #1 SMP Fri Sep 8 18:40:45 MST 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000020000000 (usable)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
520MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI in unprivileged domain disabled
IRQ lockup detection disabled
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line:  ip=:1.2.3.4::::eth0:dhcp root=/dev/sda1 ro 3
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
Xen reported: 2666.662 MHz processor.
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Software IO TLB disabled
vmalloc area: e1000000-fb7fe000, maxmem 33ffe000
Memory: 514048k/532480k available (2250k kernel code, 9780k reserved, 708k
data, 172k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5334.98 BogoMIPS
(lpj=26674902)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Capability LSM initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 4096K
CPU: L3 cache: 4096K
Checking ''hlt'' instruction... OK.
Brought up 1 CPUs
migration_cost=0
Grant table initialized
NET: Registered protocol family 16
Brought up 1 CPUs
PCI: setting up Xen PCI frontend stub
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060127
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
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
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14-xen <tigran@veritas.com>
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
i8042.c: No controller found.
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
Xen virtual console successfully installed as tty1
Event-channel device installed.
blkif_init: reqs=64, pages=704, mmap_vstart=0xdf800000
netfront: Initialising virtual ethernet driver.
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Registering block device major 8
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
usbmon: debugfs is not available
usbcore: registered new driver libusual
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
EXT2-fs warning (device sda1): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as
ext2
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.

  ***************************************************************
  ***************************************************************
  ** WARNING: Currently emulating unsupported memory accesses  **
  **          in /lib/tls glibc libraries. The emulation is    **
  **          slow. To ensure full performance you should      **
  **          install a ''xen-friendly'' (nosegneg) version of  
**
  **          the library, or disable tls support by executing **
  **          the following as root:                           **
  **          mv /lib/tls /lib/tls.disabled                    **
  ** Offending process: init (pid=1)                           **
  ***************************************************************
  ***************************************************************

Continuing...

--End of domU boot message----------------------------------------

---Begin of my domU config file--------------------
kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xenU"
ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-2.6-xen.img"
memory = 512
name = "domain1"
extra = "3"
vif = [ ''bridge=xenbr0'' ]
dhcp = "dhcp"
disk = [''phy:/dev/VG_Dom6_Linux/LogVol00,sda1,w'' ]
root = "/dev/sda1 ro"

---End of my domU config file-------------------- 


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Liang Yang

2006-Sep-12 00:57 UTC

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[Xen-users] Help: Xen HVM Domain can ONLY support four hard drives at most???

Hi,

I have 5 SATA hard drives and I want to expose all these five drives to 
Windows HVM domain (domain name: w2k3-001) from dom0. Here is the related 
setting in my Windows config file:
disk = [''phy:/dev/VG_Dom3_Windows/w2k3-001,ioemu:hda,w'', 
''phy:/dev/sde,ioemu:hdb,w'',
''phy:/dev/sdf,ioemu:hdc,w'',
''phy:/dev/sdg,ioemu:hdd,w'',
''phy:/dev/sdh,ioemu:hde,w'' ]

When I start Windows domain, I got the following error:
Error: hvm: for qemu vbd type=file&dev=hda~hdd

I then changed to the following format:
disk = [''phy:/dev/VG_Dom3_Windows/w2k3-001,hda1,w'',
''phy:/dev/sde,hdb1,w'',
''phy:/dev/sdf,hdc1,w'',
''phy:/dev/sdg,hdd1,w'', ''phy:/dev/sdh,hde2,w''
]

But the Windows domain console Windows does not show up after I typed "xm 
create w2k3.hvm -c" and I also got the following error:
Started domain w2k3-001
xenconsole: Could not read tty from store: No such file or directory (this 
message always shows up even though the Windows domain boots correctly)

However, the domain is indeeded listed as BLOCK status when I typed the 
command "xm list".

Could anyone help me to solve this issue?

Thanks,

Liang




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You, Yongkang

2006-Sep-12 02:06 UTC

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RE: [Xen-users] Is RAMDISK required for domU boot?

>From the log, the real reason is because: [...
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
...]

An solution is to mount your domU harddisk firstly, then copy your Xen0:/dev/*
to domU:/dev/

After above 2 steps, that domU should be created without Ramdisk option. Well,
Ramdisk is harmless. :)

Best Regards,
Yongkang (Kangkang) 永康
>-----Original Message-----
>From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com
>[mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Liang Yang
>Sent: 2006年9月12日 3:14
>To: xen-users@lists.xensource.com
>Subject: [Xen-users] Is RAMDISK required for domU boot?
>
>Hi,
>
>I found one weird thing: I heard RAMDISK is not required for domU, but it
>seems I have to add RAMDISK to my domU config file, otherwiese the domU
>will hang up when it is booting. Please see the message below, the domU
>booting hangs up after "Continuing..."
>
>Does anyone have any clue for this issue? BTW, xen-friendly glibc is already
>installed.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Liang
>
>---Begin of  domU boot message---------------------------------
> xen]# xm create domain1.xm -c
>Using config file "domain1.xm".
>Started domain domain1
>Linux version 2.6.16-xen (root@localhost.localdomain) (gcc version 3.4.6
>20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)) #1 SMP Fri Sep 8 18:40:45 MST 2006
>BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000020000000 (usable)
>0MB HIGHMEM available.
>520MB LOWMEM available.
>ACPI in unprivileged domain disabled
>IRQ lockup detection disabled
>Built 1 zonelists
>Kernel command line:  ip=:1.2.3.4::::eth0:dhcp root=/dev/sda1 ro 3
>Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
>Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
>Initializing CPU#0
>PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
>Xen reported: 2666.662 MHz processor.
>Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
>Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
>Software IO TLB disabled
>vmalloc area: e1000000-fb7fe000, maxmem 33ffe000
>Memory: 514048k/532480k available (2250k kernel code, 9780k reserved,
>708k
>data, 172k init, 0k highmem)
>Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
>Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5334.98 BogoMIPS
>(lpj=26674902)
>Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
>Capability LSM initialized
>Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
>CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
>CPU: L2 cache: 4096K
>CPU: L3 cache: 4096K
>Checking ''hlt'' instruction... OK.
>Brought up 1 CPUs
>migration_cost=0
>Grant table initialized
>NET: Registered protocol family 16
>Brought up 1 CPUs
>PCI: setting up Xen PCI frontend stub
>ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060127
>ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
>Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
>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
>IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14-xen <tigran@veritas.com>
>VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
>Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
>Initializing Cryptographic API
>io scheduler noop registered
>io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
>io scheduler deadline registered
>io scheduler cfq registered
>PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
>i8042.c: No controller found.
>RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
>Xen virtual console successfully installed as tty1
>Event-channel device installed.
>blkif_init: reqs=64, pages=704, mmap_vstart=0xdf800000
>netfront: Initialising virtual ethernet driver.
>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
>ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
>idebus=xx
>Registering block device major 8
>ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
>usbmon: debugfs is not available
>usbcore: registered new driver libusual
>mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
>NET: Registered protocol family 2
>IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
>TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
>TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
>TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
>TCP reno registered
>Initializing IPsec netlink socket
>NET: Registered protocol family 1
>NET: Registered protocol family 17
>NET: Registered protocol family 8
>NET: Registered protocol family 20
>Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
>EXT2-fs warning (device sda1): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as
>ext2
>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
>Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed
>Warning: unable to open an initial console.
>
>  ***************************************************************
>  ***************************************************************
>  ** WARNING: Currently emulating unsupported memory accesses  **
>  **          in /lib/tls glibc libraries. The emulation is    **
>  **          slow. To ensure full performance you should      **
>  **          install a ''xen-friendly'' (nosegneg) version
of   **
>  **          the library, or disable tls support by executing **
>  **          the following as root:                           **
>  **          mv /lib/tls /lib/tls.disabled                    **
>  ** Offending process: init (pid=1)                           **
>  ***************************************************************
>  ***************************************************************
>
>Continuing...
>
>--End of domU boot message----------------------------------------
>
>---Begin of my domU config file--------------------
>kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xenU"
>ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-2.6-xen.img"
>memory = 512
>name = "domain1"
>extra = "3"
>vif = [ ''bridge=xenbr0'' ]
>dhcp = "dhcp"
>disk = [''phy:/dev/VG_Dom6_Linux/LogVol00,sda1,w'' ]
>root = "/dev/sda1 ro"
>
>---End of my domU config file--------------------
>
>
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Itamar Reis Peixoto

2006-Sep-12 02:20 UTC

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Re: [Xen-users] Is RAMDISK required for domU boot?

the best solution for this problem is mount the domU disk on /mnt and do
this command.

for i in console null zero ; do MAKEDEV -d /mnt/dev -x $i ; done

if you''re running a new distro, remember to install udev on domU




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Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Is RAMDISK required for domU boot?

>From the log, the real reason is because:[...
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
...]

An solution is to mount your domU harddisk firstly, then copy your
Xen0:/dev/* to domU:/dev/

After above 2 steps, that domU should be created without Ramdisk option.
Well, Ramdisk is harmless. :)
>
>I found one weird thing: I heard RAMDISK is not required for domU, but it
>seems I have to add RAMDISK to my domU config file, otherwiese the domU
>will hang up when it is booting. Please see the message below, the domU
>booting hangs up after "Continuing..."
>
>Does anyone have any clue for this issue? BTW, xen-friendly glibc is
>already
>installed.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Liang
>
>---Begin of  domU boot message---------------------------------
> xen]# xm create domain1.xm -c
>Using config file "domain1.xm".
>Started domain domain1
>Linux version 2.6.16-xen (root@localhost.localdomain) (gcc version 3.4.6
>20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)) #1 SMP Fri Sep 8 18:40:45 MST 2006
>BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000020000000 (usable)
>0MB HIGHMEM available.
>520MB LOWMEM available.
>ACPI in unprivileged domain disabled
>IRQ lockup detection disabled
>Built 1 zonelists
>Kernel command line:  ip=:1.2.3.4::::eth0:dhcp root=/dev/sda1 ro 3
>Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
>Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
>Initializing CPU#0
>PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
>Xen reported: 2666.662 MHz processor.
>Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
>Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
>Software IO TLB disabled
>vmalloc area: e1000000-fb7fe000, maxmem 33ffe000
>Memory: 514048k/532480k available (2250k kernel code, 9780k reserved,
>708k
>data, 172k init, 0k highmem)
>Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...
>Ok.
>Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5334.98 BogoMIPS
>(lpj=26674902)
>Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
>Capability LSM initialized
>Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
>CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
>CPU: L2 cache: 4096K
>CPU: L3 cache: 4096K
>Checking ''hlt'' instruction... OK.
>Brought up 1 CPUs
>migration_cost=0
>Grant table initialized
>NET: Registered protocol family 16
>Brought up 1 CPUs
>PCI: setting up Xen PCI frontend stub
>ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060127
>ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
>Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
>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
>IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14-xen <tigran@veritas.com>
>VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
>Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
>Initializing Cryptographic API
>io scheduler noop registered
>io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
>io scheduler deadline registered
>io scheduler cfq registered
>PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
>i8042.c: No controller found.
>RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
>Xen virtual console successfully installed as tty1
>Event-channel device installed.
>blkif_init: reqs=64, pages=704, mmap_vstart=0xdf800000
>netfront: Initialising virtual ethernet driver.
>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
>ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
>idebus=xx
>Registering block device major 8
>ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
>usbmon: debugfs is not available
>usbcore: registered new driver libusual
>mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
>NET: Registered protocol family 2
>IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
>TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
>TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
>TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
>TCP reno registered
>Initializing IPsec netlink socket
>NET: Registered protocol family 1
>NET: Registered protocol family 17
>NET: Registered protocol family 8
>NET: Registered protocol family 20
>Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
>EXT2-fs warning (device sda1): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as
>ext2
>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
>Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed
>Warning: unable to open an initial console.
>
>  ***************************************************************
>  ***************************************************************
>  ** WARNING: Currently emulating unsupported memory accesses  **
>  **          in /lib/tls glibc libraries. The emulation is    **
>  **          slow. To ensure full performance you should      **
>  **          install a ''xen-friendly'' (nosegneg) version
of   **
>  **          the library, or disable tls support by executing **
>  **          the following as root:                           **
>  **          mv /lib/tls /lib/tls.disabled                    **
>  ** Offending process: init (pid=1)                           **
>  ***************************************************************
>  ***************************************************************
>
>Continuing...
>
>--End of domU boot message----------------------------------------
>
>---Begin of my domU config file--------------------
>kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xenU"
>ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-2.6-xen.img"
>memory = 512
>name = "domain1"
>extra = "3"
>vif = [ ''bridge=xenbr0'' ]
>dhcp = "dhcp"
>disk = [''phy:/dev/VG_Dom6_Linux/LogVol00,sda1,w'' ]
>root = "/dev/sda1 ro"
>
>---End of my domU config file--------------------
>


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