Re: [Xen-users] error starting xen guest

[Todd Deshane <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:44 AM, dinesh chandrasekaran
<dinesh_chan8@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Friends,
>                     I just installed xen/dom0 on my amd64 quad core phenom
> processor. dom0 boot up was successfull.
> When I used 'xm create -c /home/guest.conf' to create a xen guest, the guest
> screen hanged after "Starting local".
>
> Im not getting the login prompt. Please help me solve this. Im just one step
> away from a normal guest bootup.
>
> My guest fstab, config file and dmesg are as follows:
>
> FSTAB:
> /dev/hda        /        ext3        noatime        0 1
> #/dev/SWAP        none        swap        sw        0 0
> #/dev/cdrom        /mnt/cdrom    auto        noauto,ro    0 0
>
> shm            /dev/shm    tmpfs        nodev,nosuid,noexec    0 0
>
> CONFIG FILE:
> name="Guest"
> kernel="/boot/domU-Gentoo"
> memory="64"
> disk=['file:/home/vm1.raw,hda,w']
> root="/dev/hda ro console=xvc0"
> on_poweroff = 'restart'
> on_reboot = 'restart'
> on_crash = 'restart'
>

You should be able to add:
extra="xencons=tty"

you may also want/need to move the ro console=xvc0 into the extra
so it could be that you want
root='/dev/hda'
extra='ro console="xvc" xencons=tty'

You may also need to add a getty script for your xvc0 if it is not
already in your domU.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Todd

-- 
Todd Deshane
http://todddeshane.net
http://runningxen.com

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