Hello Xen community. After running virt-install for the first guest domain, CentOS installation script starts in text mode but does not find disk driver. The driver is listed (Compaq cciss) and selected, but disk is still not found. Here are parameters fed to virt-install: virt-install Would you like a fully virtualized guest (yes or no)? This will allow you to run unmodified operating systems. no What is the name of your virtual machine? maildom How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)? 256 What would you like to use as the disk (path)? /srv/maildom.img How large would you like the disk (/srv/maildom.img) to be (in gigabytes)? 40 Would you like to enable graphics support? (yes or no) no What is the install location? /dev/scd0 Kernel version is: uname -r 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5xen Mounted disks are: mount /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) /dev/scd0 on /media/dvd type iso9660 (ro) Hardware is HP ProLiant DL-365 with AMD Opteron 1800 CPU. Any help appreciated. Thanks, Hamid. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hamid Majidy
2008-Feb-28 04:34 UTC
RE: [Xen-users] Xen 3.1 Installation Issue on CentOS 5.1
Here''s some additional details that might help: Contents of /etc/xen/maildom: name = "maildom" uuid = "582e2253-91ce-d6b6-14b4-bf53475f8810" maxmem = 256 memory = 256 vcpus = 1 bootloader = "/usr/bin/pygrub" on_poweroff = "destroy" on_reboot = "restart" on_crash = "restart" vfb = [ ] disk = [ "tap:aio:/srv/maildom.img,xvda,w" ] vif = [ "mac=00:16:3e:67:93:85,bridge=xenbr0" ] And a screenshot of xm list showing the 2 domains running. xentop - 12:33:23 Xen 3.1.0-53.1.13.el5 2 domains: 1 running, 1 blocked, 0 paused, 0 crashed, 0 dying, 0 shutdown Mem: 1046452k total, 1046132k used, 320k free CPUs: 2 @ 1800MHz NAME STATE CPU(sec) CPU(%) MEM(k) MEM(%) MAXMEM(k) MAXMEM(%) VCPUS NETS NETTX(k) NETRX(k) VBDS VBD_OO VBD_RD VBD_WR SSID Domain-0 -----r 102 0.1 763980 73.0 no limit n/a 2 4 439 841 0 0 0 0 0 maildom --b--- 3 0.0 262068 25.0 262144 25.1 1 1 0 6 1 0 2 0 0 Please let me know if any other information would help diagnosing the problem. Thanks, Hamid. _____ From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com [mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Hamid Majidy Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 8:21 AM To: xen-users@lists.xensource.com Subject: [Xen-users] Xen 3.1 Installation Issue on CentOS 5.1 Hello Xen community. After running virt-install for the first guest domain, CentOS installation script starts in text mode but does not find disk driver. The driver is listed (Compaq cciss) and selected, but disk is still not found. Here are parameters fed to virt-install: virt-install Would you like a fully virtualized guest (yes or no)? This will allow you to run unmodified operating systems. no What is the name of your virtual machine? maildom How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)? 256 What would you like to use as the disk (path)? /srv/maildom.img How large would you like the disk (/srv/maildom.img) to be (in gigabytes)? 40 Would you like to enable graphics support? (yes or no) no What is the install location? /dev/scd0 Kernel version is: uname -r 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5xen Mounted disks are: mount /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) /dev/scd0 on /media/dvd type iso9660 (ro) Hardware is HP ProLiant DL-365 with AMD Opteron 1800 CPU. Any help appreciated. Thanks, Hamid. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users