Glen Deem
2007-Jun-12 22:07 UTC
[Xen-users] no vfb for paravirt guest on RHEL 5 and strange args
Hi all,
I''m creating a fairy simple paravirt machine under RHEL 5 (Xen 3.0.3,
pygrub 0.6).
A machine gets created but I see two problems:
1. no graphics console gets enabled (so RedHat VMM does not open it)
so I cannot connect to it with vncviewer (am I naive to use vfb fpr a
paravirt domU? - libvirt uses it, right?);
2. when I check what config has been used to create the domain (in
/var/log/xen/xend.log) I see arguments ("args" or "extra")
picked up
from a virtual machine created a while age, my present "extra"
parameter is ignored.
I did regenerate xenstored/tdb and rebooted, still those args appear,
drives my nuts :-).
I''m actually after the graphics console, but I think both problems are
related.
Could anybody advise why I get no proper vfb setup (I''d expect a
vnc-port vaue appearing in the xen store when it setup properly) and
why I get those old args?
Thanks in advance,
Deem
P.S.
xm config
===========name = "para-2"
memory = "256"
disk = [ ''file:/var/lib/para-2.img,hda,w'' ]
vif = [ ''bridge=xenbr0'' ]
vfb = [''type=vnc, vncunused=1'']
bootloader=''/usr/bin/pygrub''
vcpus=1
on_reboot = ''restart''
on_crash = ''restart''
extra = ''ignored''
from /var/log/xen/xend.log:
=================[2007-06-12 17:13:56 xend.XendDomainInfo 5445] DEBUG
(XendDomainInfo:940) XendDomainInfo.handleShutdownWatch
[2007-06-12 17:41:57 xend.XendDomainInfo 5445] DEBUG
(XendDomainInfo:190) XendDomainInfo.create([''vm'',
[''name'', ''para-2''],
[''memory'', ''256''],
[''on_reboot'', ''restart''],
[''on_crash'', ''restart''],
[''vcpus'', 1], [''bootloader'',
''/usr/bin/pygrub''], [''image'',
[''linux'',
[''ramdisk'', ''/var/lib/xen/initrd.NMeE1x''],
[''kernel'',
''/var/lib/xen/vmlinuz.7QoaTW''], [''args'',
''nosplash quiet rw acpi=on
XXHOST=localhost.localdomain XXLDAP=127.0.0.1
resume2=swap:/dev/mapper/XxxxxxVG-swap vga=791
root=/dev/XxxxxxxVG/root'']]], [''device'',
[''vbd'', [''uname'',
''file:/var/lib/para-2.img''], [''dev'',
''hda''], [''mode'', ''w'']]],
[''device'', [''vif'',
[''bridge'', ''xenbr0'']]],
[''device'', [''vkbd'']],
[''device'', [''vfb'',
[''vncunused'', ''1''],
[''type'', ''vnc''],
[''display'',
'':0.0''], [''xauthority'',
''/root/.xauthfLRNzX'']]]])
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