Hi, I have a strange problem when I launch my virtual machine. I first create a tar from a partition where Scientific Linux 4 already exist (and VM works on it), and then deploy a tar in to that partition again. Here are the step I follow to create tar file from the SF Component: * mkdir /tmp/dev/vg1/vol1-root * mount /dev/vg1/vol1-root /tmp/dev/vg1/vol1-root * cd $to_path_to_save_Tar_file * tar -cpf $tar_name /tmp/dev/vg1/vol1-root * sleep 4 * umount /tmp/dev/vg1/vol1-root * sleep 2 * cd /tmp * rm -rf dev/vg1/vol1-root Here are the steps I follow to deploy a VM by hand: 1048 lvremove /dev/vg1/vol1-root /dev/vg1/vol1-swap 1050 lvcreate -L10G -n vol1-root vg1 1051 lvcreate -L512 -n vol1-swap vg1 1052 mkswap /dev/vg1/vol1-swap 1053 mke2fs -j /dev/vg1/vol1-root 1054 mkdir /tmp/dev/vg1/vol1-root 1055 mount /dev/vg1/vol1-root /tmp/dev/vg1/vol1-root/ 1056 cd /tmp/dev/vg1/vol1-root/ 1057 tar xf ~/virtualization/imgFactory/slc4-root22820061615.tar 1058 umount /tmp/dev/vg1/vol1-root/ 1059 cd /tmp/ 1060 umount /tmp/dev/vg1/vol1-root/ 1061 rm -Rf dev/vg1/vol1-root 1063 xm create -c vmid="1" The complete output for command: <xm create -c vmid="1"> [root@$$ tmp]# xm create -c vmid="1" Using config file "/etc/xen/xmdefconfig". Started domain generic-3 Linux version 2.6.12.6-xen3_12.1_rhel4.1 (gcc version 3.3.6 (Debian 1: 3.3.6-13)) #1 SMP Tue May 9 11:42:03 CEST 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=xxx.xxx.xx.xx:1 <http://128.142.68.100:1>.2.3.4:xxx.xxx.x.x:255<http://128.142.1.1:255>.255.0.0:ctb-generic-30:eth0:off root=/dev/sda1ro fastboot nousb Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes) Xen reported: 2790.702 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 34000000 Memory: 513408k/532480k available (2077k kernel code, 10432k reserved, 906k data, 184k init, 0k highmem) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Disabled at boot. Capability LSM initialized Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K CPU: L2 cache: 512K Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking ''hlt'' instruction... disabled Brought up 1 CPUs checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 614k freed Grant table initialized NET: Registered protocol family 16 Brought up 1 CPUs ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050309 ACPI: Interpreter disabled. Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay xen_mem: Initialising balloon driver. usbcore: USB support disabled PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing PCI: If a device doesn''t work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report 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 isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly. i8042.c: No controller found. io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered 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=0xdfc00000 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 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes 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) NET: Registered protocol family 8 NET: Registered protocol family 20 Freeing unused kernel memory: 184k freed Red Hat nash version 4.2.1.6 starting Mounted /proc filesystem Mounting sysfs Loading scsi_mod.ko module scsi_mod: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted. SCSI subsystem initialized Loading sd_mod.ko module register_blkdev: cannot get major 8 for sd Loading mptbase.ko module Fusion MPT base driver 3.01.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2004 LSI Logic Corporation Loading mptscsih.ko module Fusion MPT SCSI Host driver 3.01.20 Loading dm-mod.ko module device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com Loading jbd.ko module Loading ext3.ko module Creating block devices Creating root device Mounting root filesystem kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Switching to new root WARNING: can''t access (null) exec of init ((null)) failed!!!: 14 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Any ideas or help would be much appreciated ? 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