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Anirban Chakraborty

2006-Nov-09 18:54 UTC

[Xen-users] no SDL window during Windows install (XEN-3.0.3-testing)

Hi All,

I tried to create a Windows guest on xen-3.0.3-testing but didn''t get
the
SDL window to continue installation. I have dev86, SDL and SDL-devel rpms
installed. I run xm log and saw an exception, exception looking up device
number for hdc: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: \047/dev/hdc\047. Is
that the reason why the SDL window does not appear? Although xm li shows the
domain is running. What am I missing here?
Thanks in advance.

-Anirban

Relevant portions of my hvm file looks like:
vif = [ ''type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr0'' ]
disk = [
''phy:/dev/guestos/w2k3,ioemu:hda,w'',''file:/tmp/EN_WS03.ISO,hdc:cdrom,r''
]
boot="cda"
sdl=1
vnc=0

I do not know why qemu could not find device hdc. I do see that the cdrom
device is /dev/hdc (when I load a cd into the drive and do df, it shows the
cdrom is /dev/hdc).

Detail messsages from xm log given below:

[2006-11-09 10:43:10 xend 5204] DEBUG (image:409) hvm shutdown watch
registered
[2006-11-09 10:43:10 xend 5204] DEBUG (DevController:110) DevController:
writing {\047backend-id\047: \0470\047, \047virtual-device\047: \047768\047,
\047device-type\047: \047disk\047, \047state\047: \0471\047,
\047backend\047: \047/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/11/768\047} to
/local/domain/11/device/vbd/768.
[2006-11-09 10:43:10 xend 5204] DEBUG (DevController:112) DevController:
writing {\047domain\047: \047win\047, \047frontend\047:
\047/local/domain/11/device/vbd/768\047, \047dev\047: \047hda\047,
\047state\047: \0471\047, \047params\047: \047/dev/guestos/w2k3\047,
\047mode\047: \047w\047, \047online\047: \0471\047, \047frontend-id\047:
\04711\047, \047type\047: \047phy\047} to
/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/11/768.
[2006-11-09 10:43:10 xend 5204] DEBUG (blkif:24) exception looking up device
number for hdc: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: \047/dev/hdc\047
[2006-11-09 10:43:10 xend 5204] DEBUG (DevController:110) DevController:
writing {\047backend-id\047: \0470\047, \047virtual-device\047:
\0475632\047, \047device-type\047: \047cdrom\047, \047state\047: \0471\047,
\047backend\047: \047/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/11/5632\047} to
/local/domain/11/device/vbd/5632.
<snip>
[2006-11-09 10:35:07 xend 5204] DEBUG (image:432) hvm_shutdown fired,
shutdown reason=None
[2006-11-09 10:35:07 xend.XendDomainInfo 5204] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:933)
XendDomainInfo.handleShutdownWatch
[2006-11-09 10:35:08 xend 5204] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for
devices vif.
[2006-11-09 10:35:08 xend 5204] DEBUG (DevController:149) Waiting for 0.
[2006-11-09 10:35:08 xend 5204] DEBUG (DevController:464)
hotplugStatusCallback /local/domain/0/backend/vif/10/0/hotplug-status.
[2006-11-09 10:35:08 xend 5204] DEBUG (DevController:464)
hotplugStatusCallback /local/domain/0/backend/vif/10/0/hotplug-status.
[2006-11-09 10:35:08 xend 5204] DEBUG (DevController:478)
hotplugStatusCallback 1.
[2006-11-09 10:35:08 xend 5204] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for
devices usb.
[2006-11-09 10:35:08 xend 5204] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for
devices vbd.
[2006-11-09 10:35:08 xend 5204] DEBUG (DevController:149) Waiting for 768.
[2006-11-09 10:35:08 xend 5204] DEBUG (DevController:464)
hotplugStatusCallback /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/10/768/hotplug-status.
[2006-11-09 10:35:08 xend 5204] DEBUG (DevController:464)
hotplugStatusCallback /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/10/768/hotplug-status.
[2006-11-09 10:35:08 xend 5204] DEBUG (DevController:478)
hotplugStatusCallback 1.
[2006-11-09 10:35:08 xend 5204] DEBUG (DevController:149) Waiting for 832.
[2006-11-09 10:35:08 xend 5204] DEBUG (DevController:464)
hotplugStatusCallback /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/10/832/hotplug-status.
[2006-11-09 10:35:08 xend 5204] DEBUG (DevController:478)
hotplugStatusCallback 1.
[2006-11-09 10:35:08 xend 5204] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for
devices irq.
[2006-11-09 10:35:08 xend 5204] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for
devices pci.
[2006-11-09 10:35:08 xend 5204] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for
devices ioports.
[2006-11-09 10:35:08 xend 5204] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for
devices tap.
[2006-11-09 10:35:08 xend 5204] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for
devices vtpm.
[2006-11-09 10:35:08 xend 5204] INFO (XendDomain:370) Domain win (10)
unpaused.


I run xm dmesg and get following (no error):

(XEN) (GUEST: 2) Start BIOS ...
(XEN) (GUEST: 2) Starting emulated 16-bit real-mode: ip=F000:FFF0
(XEN) (GUEST: 2)  rombios.c,v 1.138 2005/05/07 15:55:26 vruppert Exp $
(XEN) (GUEST: 2) Remapping master: ICW2 0x8 -> 0x20
(XEN) (GUEST: 2) Remapping slave: ICW2 0x70 -> 0x28
(XEN) (GUEST: 2) VGABios $Id: vgabios.c,v 1.61 2005/05/24 16:50:50 vruppert
Exp $
(XEN) (GUEST: 2) HVMAssist BIOS, 1 cpu, $Revision: 1.138 $ $Date: 2005/05/07
15:55:26 $
(XEN) (GUEST: 2)
(XEN) (GUEST: 2) ata0-0: PCHS=16383/16/63 translation=lba LCHS=1024/255/63
(XEN) (GUEST: 2) ata0 master: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-7 Hard-Disk (10212 MBytes)
(XEN) (GUEST: 2) ata0  slave: Unknown device
(XEN) (GUEST: 2) ata1 master: QEMU CD-ROM ATAPI-4 CD-Rom/DVD-Rom
(XEN) (GUEST: 2) ata1  slave: Unknown device
(XEN) (GUEST: 2)
(XEN) (GUEST: 2) Boot from Hard Disk 0 failed
(XEN) (GUEST: 2) Booting from CD-Rom...

xm li does show that the win guest is running.
ps -ef | grep qemu shows it is running:
root      6403  5204  0 10:14 ?        00:00:01 /usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm -d
2 -m 512 -boot cda -serial pty -vcpus 1 -domain-name win -net
nic,vlan=1,macaddr=00:16:3e:08:3d:7f,model=rtl8139 -net
tap,vlan=1,bridge=xenbr0


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Petersson, Mats

2006-Nov-09 19:03 UTC

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RE: [Xen-users] no SDL window during Windows install ( XEN-3.0.3-testing)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com 
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of 
> Anirban Chakraborty
> Sent: 09 November 2006 18:55
> To: xen-users@lists.xensource.com
> Subject: [Xen-users] no SDL window during Windows install ( 
> XEN-3.0.3-testing)
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I tried to create a Windows guest on xen-3.0.3-testing but 
> didn''t get the SDL window to continue installation. I have 
> dev86, SDL and SDL-devel rpms installed. I run xm log and saw 
> an exception, exception looking up device number for hdc: 
> [Errno 2] No such file or directory: \047/dev/hdc\047. Is 
> that the reason why the SDL window does not appear? Although 
> xm li shows the domain is running. What am I missing here? 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -Anirban
> That doesn''t seem like an error that should cause the SDL window to not
appear - but I''m not sure where the error comes from, so I
can''t say for
sure. 

Check the that you have CONFIG_SDL in the .../tools/ioemu direcotry (I
think it''s in the target-i386-dm/config.h that this definition lives
in). If not, you''re not going to get a SDL window. 

One potential problem here is if you install the SDL packages AFTER the
first attempt to build Xen, it won''t pick up that your configuratin has
changed, so if you did that (or you''re not sure), go to .../tools/ioemu
and check for the CONFIG_SDL, if it''s not present run ./configure in
the
same directory. Then check again that it''s set - if not, you
haven''t got
the SDL packages you need installed. 

I hope this helps. 

--
Mats



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