Petersson, Mats wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
>> Klaus Schmidinger
>> Sent: 23 January 2007 12:14
>> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [Xen-users] Problem running unmodified SUSE Linux
>> guest on XEN/VT
>>
>> I have a PC with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2,40GHz F1066 CPU
>> that runs openSUSE 10.2. The VT feature in the BIOS is enabled.
>> The XEN version is 3.0.3_11774.
>>
>> uname -a:
>> Linux tiger 2.6.18.2-34-xen #1 SMP Mon Nov 27 11:46:27 UTC
>> 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> On this machine I'd like to run SUSE Linux 8.2 and 10.2 as virtual
>> machines. In an attempt to install a first virtual Linux machine
>> I did the following:
>>
>> - create an empty disk image file:
>>
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=disk2.img count=2048 bs=1M
>>
>> - create a xen configuration file (named test3):
>>
>> 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
>> shadow_memory = 8
>> name = "test3"
>> vif = [ 'type=ioemu, mac=00:16:3e:00:00:11, bridge=xenbr0' ]
>> disk = [ 'file:/Mirror/xen/disk2.img,ioemu:hda,w',
>> 'phy:/dev/dvd,hdc:cdrom,r' ]
>> boot = 'd'
>> device_model = '/usr/' + arch_libdir + '/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
>> sdl=0
>> vnc=1
>> vnclisten="192.168.1.5"
>> vncviewer=0
>> stdvga=0
>> serial='pty'
>> on_crash='preserve'
>>
>> - insert the SUSE installation DVD into the DVD drive
>>
>> - create a VM:
>>
>> xm create test3
>>
>>
>> The VM comes up and I can connect to its console with vncviewer.
>> However, the various versions of SUSE Linux behave in different ways,
>> none of them working correctly:
>>
>> * SUSE 8.2:
>>
>> The initial installation menu comes up and offers "Boot
>> from Harddisk",
>> "Installation" etc. If I select "Installation" a popup says
>> "Starting..."
>> and "Loading Linux kernel" and the progress bar moves up
>> until it reaches
>> 100%. Then the VNC screen gets blank and the VM crashes.
>> The same happens
>> with other options like "Rescue system".
>>
>> * SUSE 10.2:
>>
>> I get some initial BIOS boot messages, like
>>
>>
>> Plex86/Bochs VGABios current-cvs 28 Nov 2006
>> ...
>> HVMAssist BIOS, 1 cpu, ...
>> ata0 master: QUEMU HARDDISK ATA-7 Hard-Disk (2048 MBytes)
>> ...
>> ata1 master: QUEMU CD-ROM ATAPI-4 CD-Rom/DVD-Rom
>> ...
>> Booting from CD-Rom...
>>
>> ISOLINUX 3.31 0x45688c0e Copyright (C) 1994-2005 H. Peter Anvin
>> Loading...
>>
>>
>> and nothing further happens. "xm list" gives me
>>
>> Name ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State Time(s)
>> Domain-0 0 2432 2 r----- 1010.0
>> eagle2 79 512 1 r----- 247.7
>>
>>
>>
>> Since my server has a VT capable CPU, I would expect to be able to
>> install and run any OS, without having to modify it.
>> Am I doing something wrong here?
>>
>> Klaus
>
> I don't know for sure, but I would try to install in text-mode only. It
> may not help, but it certainly won't hurt.
>
> --
> Mats
I tried that with the SUSE 8.2 installation, but the result was just the same.
With SUSE 10.2 I don't even get that far that I could choose the graphics/text
mode.
In the meantime I have successfully installed Windows XP in a virtual
machine. It booted straight out of the ISO image without any problems.
What's wrong with SUSE Linux that it can't boot into a virtual machine?
Klaus
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