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[Xen-users] Xenconsoled no console possible

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Subject: [Xen-users] Xenconsoled no console possible
From: "Scrowston, Jo" <Jo.Scrowston@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:58:24 +0100
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I’m running 64bit CentOS 4.3 on a dell PE2950 with 64bit Xen 3.0.2-2 compiled from source.

 

I can get VMX machines running as displayed by ‘xm list’

Unfortunately I cannot get a console to continue the install (win2k3 or Linux) with ‘xm console ID’  or  ‘xm create –c VMName.hvm’

Neither does vncviewer connect when vnc enebled in the hvm conf.

 

I know that the VMX domain is running, the cpu time is incrementing, but I cannot connect to the flippin thing.

This has been reported before but I’ve not found a published resolution. Help would be greatly appreciated.

What other connection methods are available as workaround?

Remember that I need to go through the install process (particularly for windows) not just connect via ssh or vnc to a ported install.

 

 

#ps ax |grep xenconsole

6451 ?        Sl     0:00 xenconsoled                   (note: no pts, pty, tty)

 

#cat W2K3_01.hvm

import os, re

arch = os.uname()[4]

if re.search('64', arch):

    arch_libdir = 'lib64'

else:

    arch_libdir = 'lib'

kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"

builder='hvm'

memory = 512

name = "W2K3_01"

vif = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr0' ]

disk = [ 'phy:/dev/XEN/W2K3_01,ioemu:hda,w' ]

cdrom="/var/iso/W2K3.iso"

boot="d"

device_model = '/usr/' + arch_libdir + '/xen/bin/qemu-dm'

sdl=1

vnc=0                           #(I’ve tried with vnc=1 and sdl=0 too)

vncviewer=0

stdvga=0

serial='pty'

ne2000=0

 

 

# xm create -c W2K3_01.hvm

Using config file "W2K3_01.hvm".

Started domain W2K3_01

                       (cursor stalls here until ^] escape)

 

# xm list

Name                              ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State  Time(s)

Domain-0                           0      251     4 r-----  3791.6

W2K3_01                           14      512     1 ------    23.4   (cpu time incrementing)

 

# tail  /var/log/xend.log

[2006-08-23 11:35:36 xend] DEBUG (DevController:132) Waiting for devices vbd.

[2006-08-23 11:35:36 xend] DEBUG (DevController:138) Waiting for 768.

[2006-08-23 11:35:36 xend] DEBUG (DevController:403) hotplugStatusCallback /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/14/768/hotplug-status.

[2006-08-23 11:35:36 xend] DEBUG (DevController:417) hotplugStatusCallback 1.

[2006-08-23 11:35:36 xend] DEBUG (DevController:132) Waiting for devices irq.

[2006-08-23 11:35:36 xend] DEBUG (DevController:132) Waiting for devices pci.

[2006-08-23 11:35:36 xend] DEBUG (DevController:132) Waiting for devices ioports.

[2006-08-23 11:35:36 xend] DEBUG (DevController:132) Waiting for devices vtpm.

[2006-08-23 11:35:36 xend] INFO (XendDomain:363) Domain W2K3_01 (14) unpaused.

 

# tail -20  /var/log/qemu-dm.11838.log

set_map result i 3f9 result 1ef99

set_map result i 3fa result 1ef98

set_map result i 3fb result 1ef97

set_map result i 3fc result 1ef96

set_map result i 3fd result 1ef95

set_map result i 3fe result 1ef94

set_map result i 3ff result 1ef93

HVMAssist BIOS, 1 cpu, $Revision: 1.138 $ $Date: 2005/05/07 15:55:26 $

ata0-0: PCHS=16383/16/63 translation=lba LCHS=1024/255/63

ata0 master: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-2 Hard-Disk (10240 MBytes)

ata0  slave: Unknown device

ata1 master: QEMU CD-ROM ATAPI-4 CD-Rom/DVD-Rom

ata1  slave: Unknown device

Booting from CD-Rom...

unsupported PCI BIOS function 0x0E

int13_harddisk: function 15, unmapped device for ELDL=81

HVM_PIT:guest init pit channel 0!

HVM_PIT:pass info 0xc002ead to HV!

 

All other logfiles empty (can publish full logfiles but tailed them for brevity)

 

with vnc enabled I get:

 

# xm create W2K3_01.hvm

Using config file "W2K3_01.hvm".

VNC= 2

VNC viewer for X version 4.0 - built Feb 17 2005 22:53:53

Copyright (C) 2002-2004 RealVNC Ltd.

See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.

Started domain W2K3_01

 

# xm list

Name                              ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State  Time(s)

Domain-0                           0      251     4 r-----  4022.5

W2K3_01                           15      512     1 -b----     0.0  (CPU time now does not increment)

 

#vncviewer localhost:2

VNC viewer for X version 4.0 - built Feb 17 2005 22:53:53

Copyright (C) 2002-2004 RealVNC Ltd.

See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.

Wed Aug 23 11:48:24 2006

 main:        unable to connect to host: Connection refused (111)

 

 

 

 

 

Jonathan Scrowston

Technology Dept

Tel: 01183 731517

Mob: 07799 885067

 

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