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[Xen-users] CentOS 4.4 Xen VM/VPS install on CentOS 5 (xen kernel) issue

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Subject: [Xen-users] CentOS 4.4 Xen VM/VPS install on CentOS 5 (xen kernel) issues
From: Senad Brkic <senad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:07:18 -0500
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Ok So I've been able to successfully create a CentOS5 virt-install on xen using LVM created partitions. But have many problems trying to install 4.4 (It does not work with virt-install hence you have to try another method). I Created a name, name-tmp, name-swap, name-root paritions.

I did mke2fs and mkswap no problem everything is good. I went on further to mount the name-tmp and name-root paritions accordingly. in order to copy files into the lvm partitions. Now I tried installing two ways.

Method 1: Use JailTime.org xen .imgs and then mounting the image and copying the files over to the /mnt/name directory (the one I mounted above). Everything copied over no problems at all.

I then proceeded to the final step (creating the xen config file for the VPS) as follows:


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kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.1.1.el5xen"
name = "geotmp"
memory = "1028"
disk = ['phy:/dev/linux/geotmp,xvda1,w', 'phy:/dev/linux/geotmp-swap,xvda2,w']
ramdisk = "/boot/kernel-geotmp.img"
root = "/dev/hda1 ro"
vif = [ '', ]

vcpus=2
on_reboot = 'restart'
on_crash = 'restart'
on_poweroff = 'restart'
====================

Somewhat similar to the script from the virt-install running servers plus a few changes.


Method 2:
yum -c /path/to/centos4.4/yum.conf --installroot=/mnt/<companyname> -y groupinstall Base

MAKEDEV -d /mnt/<companyname>/dev -x console
MAKEDEV -d /mnt/<companyname>/dev -x null
MAKEDEV -d /mnt/<companyname>/dev -x zer

This extracts and installs correctly.

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End methods list
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We've attempted to create our own kernel with xenblk via: mkinitrd --with=xennet --preload=xenblk /boot/kernel-geotmp.img 2.6.18-8.1.1.el5xen

But we get the same message error when we try to use either the elfxen or our custom made kernel. Shown below:

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[root@web1 <mailto:root@web1> boot]# xm create geotmp -c
Using config file "/etc/xen/geotmp".
Started domain geotmp
Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/hda1 ro)
Linux version 2.6.18-8.1.1.el5xen (mockbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:mockbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>) (gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-52)) #1 SMP Mon Apr 9 10:37:31 EDT 2007
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000040c00000 (usable)
No mptable found.
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 265216
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 ro
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes)
Xen reported: 1994.999 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Software IO TLB disabled
Memory: 1019136k/1060864k available (2321k kernel code, 32916k reserved, 1312k data, 168k init) Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4988.73 BogoMIPS (lpj=9977474)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Initializing.
SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized as secondary
Mount-cache hash table entries: 256
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 4096K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 3
CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
(SMP-)alternatives turned off
Brought up 1 CPUs
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Grant table initialized
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI Exception (utmutex-0262): AE_BAD_PARAMETER, Thread 2D7A0 could not acquire Mutex [2] [20060707]
Initializing CPU#1
migration_cost=16352
Brought up 2 CPUs
PCI: setting up Xen PCI frontend stub
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
xen_mem: Initialising balloon driver.
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: System does not support PCI
PCI: System does not support PCI
NetLabel: Initializing
NetLabel: domain hash size = 128
NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14-xen <tigran@xxxxxxxxxxx> <mailto:tigran@xxxxxxxxxxx%3E>
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1176965129.039:1): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
ksign: Installing public key data
Loading keyring
- Added public key 2E65EC0636225012
- User ID: CentOS (Kernel Module GPG key)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
rtc: IRQ 8 is not free.
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 4096 blocksize
Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0
Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/hda1 ro)
Linux version 2.6.18-8.1.1.el5xen (mockbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:mockbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>) (gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-52)) #1 SMP Mon Apr 9 10:37:31 EDT 2007
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000040c00000 (usable)
No mptable found.
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 265216
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 ro
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes)
Xen reported: 1994.999 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Software IO TLB disabled
Memory: 1019136k/1060864k available (2321k kernel code, 32916k reserved, 1312k data, 168k init) Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4988.73 BogoMIPS (lpj=9977474)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Initializing.
SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized as secondary
Mount-cache hash table entries: 256
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 4096K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 3
CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
(SMP-)alternatives turned off
Brought up 1 CPUs
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Grant table initialized
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI Exception (utmutex-0262): AE_BAD_PARAMETER, Thread 2D7A0 could not acquire Mutex [2] [20060707]
Initializing CPU#1
migration_cost=16352
Brought up 2 CPUs
PCI: setting up Xen PCI frontend stub
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
xen_mem: Initialising balloon driver.
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: System does not support PCI
PCI: System does not support PCI
NetLabel: Initializing
NetLabel: domain hash size = 128
NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14-xen <tigran@xxxxxxxxxxx> <mailto:tigran@xxxxxxxxxxx%3E>
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1176965129.039:1): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
ksign: Installing public key data
Loading keyring
- Added public key 2E65EC0636225012
- User ID: CentOS (Kernel Module GPG key)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
rtc: IRQ 8 is not free.
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 4096 blocksize
Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0
Event-channel device installed.
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
i8042.c: No controller found.
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
TCP bic registered
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51713
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51714
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 439k
Red Hat nash version 5.1.19.6 starting
Mounting proc filesystem
Mounting sysfs filesystem
Creating /dev
Creating initial device nodes
Setting up hotplug.
Creating block device nodes.
Loading xenblk.ko module
Registering block device major 202
Loading uhci-hcd.ko module
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
Loading ohci-hcd.ko module
Loading ehci-hcd.ko module
Loading jbd.ko module
Loading ext3.ko module
Loading scsi_mod.ko module
SCSI subsystem initialized
Loading sd_mod.ko module
Loading 3w-9xxx.ko module
3ware 9000 Storage Controller device driver for Linux v2.26.06.001-2.6.18.
Loading usb-storage.ko module
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
Waiting for driver initialization.
stabilized: stat /proc/bus/usb/devices: No such file or directory
Loading dm-mod.ko module
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-09-14) initialised: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Loading dm-mirror.ko module
Loading dm-zero.ko module
Loading dm-snapshot.ko module
Loading xennet.ko module
netfront: Initialising virtual ethernet driver.
netfront: device eth0 has flipping receive path.
Waiting for driver initialization.
Making device-mapper control node
Scanning logical volumes
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
No volume groups found
Activating logical volumes
Volume group "cat" not found
Creating root device.
Mounting root filesystem.
mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
Setting up other filesystems.
Setting up new root fs
setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
Switching to new root and running init.
unmounting old /dev
unmounting old /proc
unmounting old /sys
switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
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So Any reason why CentOS 4.4 cannot be installed at all? Am I missing anything in the kernel?

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