Xen users - Apr 2010 - Completely in despair - Xen and Windows domU

Hello!

I am using xen some years now and it just runs without any problems. But now one
customer needs a stupid WinXP domU and I am trying to get this running for about
two weeks...

I am using  2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 kernel, set up a dummy network

auto dummy0
allow-hotplog dummy0
iface dummy0 inet static
  address 10.0.0.1
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  broadcast 10.0.0.255

xend-config:
(network-script ''network-bridge netdev=dummy0'')
(vif-script vif-bridge)

every Linux domU runs fine.

Without this configuration lines:

#vnc=1
#vnclisten="0.0.0.0"
#vncpasswd=''asd55gugu''
# vif = [ ''type=ioemu, ip=10.0.0.2, mac=00:16:3e:01:01:01,
bridge=dummy0'' ]

windows runs to. If I enable VNC or the network, I get the state ------ and 0
CPU usage. It just does NOTHING AT ALL. No warning. No error.

The really funny part is that the networking and VNC actually worked during
installation. After that I shut down windoof, created two debian domUs (with
xen-tools) and started - tried to start - windows again. No way.

PLEASE!!!! Anybody any ideas??? I am really desperate! I can''t afford
much money at the moment, but I am willing to pay as much as I can now and more
later...

Thank you very much in advance!

Best regards,

Anton
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Hi,

Can you narrow it down further? Have you tried just commenting out the
vif bridge?

Ian


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[mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Anton Trapp
Sent: 13 April 2010 18:25
To: xen-users@lists.xensource.com
Subject: [Xen-users] Completely in despair - Xen and Windows domU

Hello!

I am using xen some years now and it just runs without any problems. But
now one customer needs a stupid WinXP domU and I am trying to get this
running for about two weeks...

I am using  2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 kernel, set up a dummy network

auto dummy0
allow-hotplog dummy0
iface dummy0 inet static
  address 10.0.0.1
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  broadcast 10.0.0.255

xend-config:
(network-script ''network-bridge netdev=dummy0'')
(vif-script vif-bridge)

every Linux domU runs fine.

Without this configuration lines:

#vnc=1
#vnclisten="0.0.0.0"
#vncpasswd=''asd55gugu''
# vif = [ ''type=ioemu, ip=10.0.0.2, mac=00:16:3e:01:01:01,
bridge=dummy0'' ]

windows runs to. If I enable VNC or the network, I get the state ------
and 0 CPU usage. It just does NOTHING AT ALL. No warning. No error.

The really funny part is that the networking and VNC actually worked
during installation. After that I shut down windoof, created two debian
domUs (with xen-tools) and started - tried to start - windows again. No
way.

PLEASE!!!! Anybody any ideas??? I am really desperate! I can''t afford
much money at the moment, but I am willing to pay as much as I can now
and more later...

Thank you very much in advance!

Best regards,

Anton
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Check /var/log/xen/ and see if there are any log files relating to the domU
you''re trying to start that would help to figure out what it''s
behaving this way.  Also, please check "xm log" and "xm
dmesg" output to see if those areas indicate any problems.

Second, try leaving out the "ip=" in the vif configuration. 
I''m pretty sure setting the IP address in the domU configuration does
not work for HVM domUs - this only works for PV domUs, since the driver is
actually aware of the fact that it''s running on Xen.

Also, what Xen version, and what Linux distribution are you running?

-Nick
>>> On 2010/04/13 at 11:25, Anton Trapp <tmp008@allproducts.info>
wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I am using xen some years now and it just runs without any problems. But
now
> one customer needs a stupid WinXP domU and I am trying to get this running 
> for about two weeks...
> 
> I am using  2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 kernel, set up a dummy network
> 
> auto dummy0
> allow-hotplog dummy0
> iface dummy0 inet static
>   address 10.0.0.1
>   netmask 255.255.255.0
>   broadcast 10.0.0.255
> 
> xend-config:
> (network-script ''network-bridge netdev=dummy0'')
> (vif-script vif-bridge)
> 
> every Linux domU runs fine.
> 
> Without this configuration lines:
> 
> #vnc=1
> #vnclisten="0.0.0.0"
> #vncpasswd=''asd55gugu''
> # vif = [ ''type=ioemu, ip=10.0.0.2, mac=00:16:3e:01:01:01,
bridge=dummy0'' ]
> 
> windows runs to. If I enable VNC or the network, I get the state ------ and
0 CPU
> usage. It just does NOTHING AT ALL. No warning. No error.
> 
> The really funny part is that the networking and VNC actually worked during
> installation. After that I shut down windoof, created two debian domUs
(with
> xen-tools) and started - tried to start - windows again. No way.
> 
> PLEASE!!!! Anybody any ideas??? I am really desperate! I can''t
afford much
> money at the moment, but I am willing to pay as much as I can now and more 
> later...
> 
> Thank you very much in advance!
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Anton



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On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Anton Trapp <tmp008@allproducts.info>
wrote:
> Without this configuration lines:
>
> #vnc=1
> #vnclisten="0.0.0.0"
> #vncpasswd=''asd55gugu''
> # vif = [ ''type=ioemu, ip=10.0.0.2, mac=00:16:3e:01:01:01,
bridge=dummy0'' ]
>
> windows runs to. If I enable VNC or the network, I get the state ------ and
0 CPU usage. It just does NOTHING AT ALL. No warning. No error.
Try

vnc=1
vnclisten="0.0.0.0"
vncpasswd=''''
vif = [ ''mac=00:16:3e:01:01:01, bridge=dummy0'' ]

I seem to recall a problem with setting vnc password, so you might
want to try that first.

-- 
Fajar

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Le mercredi 14 avril 2010 à 08:42 +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha a écrit
:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Anton Trapp
<tmp008@allproducts.info> wrote:
> > Without this configuration lines:
> >
> > #vnc=1
> > #vnclisten="0.0.0.0"
> > #vncpasswd=''asd55gugu''
> > # vif = [ ''type=ioemu, ip=10.0.0.2, mac=00:16:3e:01:01:01,
bridge=dummy0'' ]
> >
> > windows runs to. If I enable VNC or the network, I get the state
------ and 0 CPU usage. It just does NOTHING AT ALL. No warning. No error.
Hello,

Here is a "working" (at least for me) parameter file for a Windows XP
machine :
===============================================================ostype=''windowsxp''
name=''com-xp1''
memory=1280
vcpus=2
uuid=''8e13bfaa-9e20-8950-15c4-5770697d4318''
on_crash=''destroy''
on_poweroff=''destroy''
on_reboot=''restart''
localtime=1
vcpus=1
builder=''hvm''
extid=0
device_model="/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm"
kernel=''/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader''
boot=''c''
disk=[	
	''tap:aio:/MV/XP1.img,hda,w'',
     ]
vif=[''mac=00:16:3e:23:df:73,bridge=br0,model=rtl8139,type=ioemu'']
vnc=1
vncunused=1
usb=1
usbdevice=''tablet''
serial=''pty''
keymap=''fr''
apic=0
acpi=1
pae=1
=============================================================The disk image is
on an NFS mounted NAS partition.
Hope it helps,

Regards

JPP



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> ===============================================================>
ostype=''windowsxp''
> name=''com-xp1''
> memory=1280
> vcpus=2
> uuid=''8e13bfaa-9e20-8950-15c4-5770697d4318''
> on_crash=''destroy''
> on_poweroff=''destroy''
> on_reboot=''restart''
> localtime=1
> vcpus=1
>
I notice vcpus=1 and vcpus=2 both in same file is there some specific
reason for this ?

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