Flavio
2011-Nov-16 17:21 UTC
[Xen-users] OpenSuse 11 PV domU installation problem: the mouse pointer doesn''t move but click works
Hello, I am trying to setup an OpenSuse 11.4 domU as a PV guest, but I have some problem with the mouse pointer that doesn''t move, but click works. The setup is along the lines of this howto: http://bderzhavets.blogspot.com/2009/02/install-opensuse-11.html I found this issue on the Internet but it''s for an older opensuse version and I wasn''t able to solve and to understand what is the reason of this problem. Here''s a screenshot of the boot process before the graphical installation begins: http://i.imgur.com/HnRNL.png I don''t know if those errors are symptoms of the problem described above, but I hope it would be useful to debug. Let me show you the config file I am using to start the installation process: name="OpenSuse11" memory=1024 disk = [''phy:/dev/loop0,hdc:cdrom,r'',''file:/mnt/xen/vmstore/opensuse11/opensuse11.img,xvda,w'' ] vif = [ ''type=ioemu, mac=00:16:3e:00:00:21, bridge=xenbr0'' ] vfb = [ "type=vnc,vncunused=1,vnclisten=0.0.0.0,keymap=it" ] stdvga=1 videoram=16 #bootloader = "/usr/bin/pygrub" kernel = "/mnt/xen/kernel/opensuse/vmlinuz-xen" ramdisk = "/mnt/xen/kernel/opensuse/initrd-xen" vcpus=1 on_reboot = ''restart'' on_crash = ''restart'' extra = ''xencons=tty edd=off'' # added for test purpose The last line has been added for test purposes, as the comment says, because I''ve searched with Google some of the messages reported in the screenshot above, but one time the graphical setup doesn''t start at all, one time I get a lot of error messages. For instance, I get the following errors: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-autoinstall/2009-01/msg00026.html I''ve put edd = ''off'' because of this post: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-autoinstall/2009-01/msg00043.html Anyway, If I leave only xencons=tty, I still get those error messages, and the graphical setup doesn''t start. If I comment out the extra line, it starts, but I can''t move the mouse pointer. Further errors are: XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/5632 XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51712 XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0 /usr/src/packages/BUILD/kernel-xen-2.6.37.1/linux-2.6.37/drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0) Do you have any idea? -- Flavio _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Flavio
2011-Nov-16 17:49 UTC
[Xen-users] Re: OpenSuse 11 PV domU installation problem: the mouse pointer doesn''t move but click works
Meanwhile I found an alternate method for the installation. Text mode (console) setup adding this as "extra" parameter: extra = ''noapic ssh=1 sshpassword=lolrofl addswap=/dev/xvda2 install=http://192.168.1.100/suse11/'' I don''t know how to start a graphical setup. I expected that it would start in the vnc viewer, but a message said to login through ssh and type yast to start the installation. Of course I use a dvd iso mounted on my apache server at dom0. Ref: http://failverse.com/net-install-a-custom-linux-distro-on-cloud-servers/ I will keep you up to date. -- Flavio _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users