I''m currently evaluating deploying Xen into our environment, and am having trouble with the following issues: virt-manager and xm seem to be very disconnected in their behavior. I stumbled across the problem when I was trying to switch the ISO image presented to an HVM. First, I tried in virt-manager to make the switch while the VM was running. Didn''t work - the VM still saw the old ISO image, even though virt-manager had, aledgedly, switched the configuration. So, that didn''t work, I thought maybe the VM just needed a reboot, so I shut it down and started it back up. No good - virt-manager showed the configuration as changed, but, once again, the old ISO image was still connected. So, I shut down the VM, removed it from xm (xm delete), added it back to xm (xm new), then went back to virt-manager to start it up. Upon examining the hardware details, I found that the configuration had reverted back to the old ISO image. So, finally, I found that (it seems) the steps I have to take just to switch from one ISO image to another are these: - Shut down the VM. - Delete the VM using xm delete. - Edit the file used to generate the VM. - Add the VM back using xm new. - Start the VM. This seems to be quite a few steps just to switch the media in a drive. Maybe I''m going about this the wrong way and someone can tell me another way to do this. I''m using Xen on SLES10SP1 (3.0.4) and virt-manager 0.3.1. Maybe some of these issues have been fixed in later versions?? Thanks, Nick _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Quoting Nick Couchman <Nick.Couchman@seakr.com>:> I''m currently evaluating deploying Xen into our environment, and am > having trouble with the following issues: virt-manager and xm seem > to be very disconnected in their behavior. I stumbled across the > problem when I was trying to switch the ISO image presented to an > HVM. First, I tried in virt-manager to make the switch while the VM > was running. Didn''t work - the VM still saw the old ISO image, > even though virt-manager had, aledgedly, switched the > configuration. So, that didn''t work, I thought maybe the VM just > needed a reboot, so I shut it down and started it back up. No good > - virt-manager showed<snip> yeah, I experienced this issue as well. using SLES 10. I think you have to actually destroy the vm. IE "xm destroy <vm_name>" ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Friday 12 October 2007 16:38:53 Errol Neal wrote:> Quoting Nick Couchman <Nick.Couchman@seakr.com>: > > I''m currently evaluating deploying Xen into our environment, and am > > having trouble with the following issues: virt-manager and xm seem > > to be very disconnected in their behavior. I stumbled across the > > problem when I was trying to switch the ISO image presented to an > > HVM. First, I tried in virt-manager to make the switch while the > > VM was running. Didn''t work - the VM still saw the old ISO image, > > even though virt-manager had, aledgedly, switched the > > configuration. So, that didn''t work, I thought maybe the VM just > > needed a reboot, so I shut it down and started it back up. No > > good - virt-manager showed > > <snip> > > yeah, I experienced this issue as well. using SLES 10. I think you > have to actually destroy the vm. IE "xm destroy <vm_name>"It''s not clear from the above messages whether you are working with hardware assisted virtualisation or para-virtualisation. I may be able to point you (both) at a workaround to get the new ISO recognised. Is this during an installation? Thanks, Jon _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users