I'm having difficulties getting Xen to run on Fedora 6 64-bit. The host system is a dual core opteron server with 1gb of ram. This server does not have X installed and is only reachable via ssh, so any graphical tools can't be used.
I have the following installed
xen-3.0.3-9 libvirt-0.3.1-1 kernel-xen-2.6.20-1.3001
The xen kernel loads fine:
Linux removed.removed.com 2.6.20-1.3001.fc6xen #1 SMP Thu Aug 9 16:18:42 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
and domU is up and running:
Name ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State Time(s) Domain-0 0 723 2 r----- 30.9
When i use virt-install i get the following
virt-install --nographic Would you like a fully virtualized guest (yes or no)? This will allow you to run unmodified operating systems. yes What is the name of your virtual machine? ostrich How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)? 256 What would you like to use as the disk (path)? /usr/virtualServers/ostrich.iso How large would you like the disk (/usr/virtualServers/ostrich.iso) to be (in gigabytes)? 4 What is the virtual CD image, CD device or install location? http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/7/Fedora/x86_64/os/
Starting install... libvir: Xen error : Domain not found: xenUnifiedDomainLookupByUUID Retrieving file Fedora... 286 kB 00:01 Retrieving file boot.iso. 100% |=========================| 7.8 MB 00:17 libvir: Xen error : Domain not found: xenUnifiedDomainLookupByName Creating storage file... 100% |=========================| 4.0 GB 00:00 Creating domain... 0 B 00:01 Domain installation still in progress. You can reconnect to the console to complete the installation process.
At this point I get dumped back to a command prompt. If i try to reconnect to the console, I get:
xenconsole: Could not read tty from store: No such file or directory
I have no idea what to do from this point. I have checked log files however I can't find what's wrong. xend.log shows
[2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] DEBUG (DevController:472) hotplugStatusCallback /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/3/768/hotplug-status. [2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] DEBUG (DevController:486) hotplugStatusCallback 1. [2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices irq. [2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices vkbd. [2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices vfb. [2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices pci. [2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices ioports. [2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices tap. [2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices vtpm. [2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] INFO (XendDomain:370) Domain ostrich (3) unpaused.
and the qemu-dm log says
domid: 1 qemu: the number of cpus is 1 shared page at pfn:ffff, mfn: 8cef buffered io page at pfn:fffd, mfn: 8cf1 xs_read(): vncpasswd get error. /vm/6416a433-45ac-af5d-5a04-6f23be199dc4/vncpasswd. Could not initialize SDL - exiting
I've spent three days with this and I haven't been able to find any help. I've found a lot of hints but nothing has worked. If someone can offer some assistance I'd greatly appreciate it!
It appears that HVM does NOT support console. I haven't been able to verifty that though, just from a few obscure posts I've read.
achan@jonathan360.com wrote:
I'm having difficulties getting Xen to run on Fedora 6 64-bit. The host system is a dual core opteron server with 1gb of ram. This server does not have X installed and is only reachable via ssh, so any graphical tools can't be used.
I have the following installed
xen-3.0.3-9 libvirt-0.3.1-1 kernel-xen-2.6.20-1.3001
The xen kernel loads fine:
Linux removed.removed.com 2.6.20-1.3001.fc6xen #1 SMP Thu Aug 9 16:18:42 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
and domU is up and running:
Name ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State Time(s) Domain-0 0 723 2 r----- 30.9
When i use virt-install i get the following
virt-install --nographic Would you like a fully virtualized guest (yes or no)? This will allow you to run unmodified operating systems. yes What is the name of your virtual machine? ostrich How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)? 256 What would you like to use as the disk (path)? /usr/virtualServers/ostrich.iso How large would you like the disk (/usr/virtualServers/ostrich.iso) to be (in gigabytes)? 4 What is the virtual CD image, CD device or install location? http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/7/Fedora/x86_64/os/
Starting install... libvir: Xen error : Domain not found: xenUnifiedDomainLookupByUUID Retrieving file Fedora... 286 kB 00:01 Retrieving file boot.iso. 100% |=========================| 7.8 MB 00:17 libvir: Xen error : Domain not found: xenUnifiedDomainLookupByName Creating storage file... 100% |=========================| 4.0 GB 00:00 Creating domain... 0 B 00:01 Domain installation still in progress. You can reconnect to the console to complete the installation process.
At this point I get dumped back to a command prompt. If i try to reconnect to the console, I get:
xenconsole: Could not read tty from store: No such file or directory
I have no idea what to do from this point. I have checked log files however I can't find what's wrong. xend.log shows
[2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] DEBUG (DevController:472) hotplugStatusCallback /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/3/768/hotplug-status. [2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] DEBUG (DevController:486) hotplugStatusCallback 1. [2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices irq. [2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices vkbd. [2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices vfb. [2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices pci. [2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices ioports. [2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices tap. [2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for devices vtpm. [2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] INFO (XendDomain:370) Domain ostrich (3) unpaused.
and the qemu-dm log says
domid: 1 qemu: the number of cpus is 1 shared page at pfn:ffff, mfn: 8cef buffered io page at pfn:fffd, mfn: 8cf1 xs_read(): vncpasswd get error. /vm/6416a433-45ac-af5d-5a04-6f23be199dc4/vncpasswd. Could not initialize SDL - exiting
I've spent three days with this and I haven't been able to find any help. I've found a lot of hints but nothing has worked. If someone can offer some assistance I'd greatly appreciate it!
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