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Re: [Xen-users] Guest boot problem on centOS 5.4

To: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>, fajar@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Guest boot problem on centOS 5.4
From: Akshay Joglekar <akshayj_18@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 11:28:15 +0530 (IST)
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Hi,

The problem was resolved. I deleted the vm01 domain using virt-manager and then again created the domain using virt-install. This time it worked perfectly.

Thanks a lot for all your help.

Akshay


--- On Tue, 2/3/10, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:

From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Guest boot problem on centOS 5.4
To: "Akshay Joglekar" <akshayj_18@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, 2 March, 2010, 12:27 PM

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 05:43:49AM +0530, Akshay Joglekar wrote:
>    Hi Pasi,
>
>    Thanks for the reply.
>
>    Output of virtinstall --prompt:
>
>     What is the name of your virtual machine? vm01
>     How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)? 256
>     What would you like to use as the disk (file path)? /vm/vm01.img
>     How large would you like the disk (/vm/vm01.img) to be (in gigabytes)? 4
>     What is the virtual CD image, CD device or install location?
>    http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/5.4/os/i386/
>
>    Actually, right now I am in the following state:
>
>    The /vm/vm01.img has been created and the file /etc/xen/vm01 has following
>    contents
>
>    name = "vm01"
>    uuid = "c854a111-c1dd-8af7-21f5-eb4aff41c66d"
>    maxmem = 256
>    memory = 256
>    vcpus = 1
>    bootloader = "/usr/bin/pygrub"
>   
>   
>   
>    vfb = [ "type=vnc,vncunused=1,keymap=en-us" ]
>    disk = [ "tap:aio:/vm/vm01.img,xvda,w" ]
>    vif = [ "mac=00:16:36:57:89:23,bridge=xenbr0,script=vif-bridge" ]
>
>    Following is the output of xm list and xm create at this stage:
>
>    [root@localhost akshay]# /usr/sbin/xm list
>    Name                                      ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State
>    Time(s)
>    Domain-0                                   0     1739     2 r-----
>    45.1
>
>    [root@localhost akshay]# /usr/sbin/xm create /etc/xen/vm01
>    Using config file "/etc/xen/vm01".
>    Traceback (most recent call last):
>      File "/usr/bin/pygrub", line 677, in ?
>        fs = fsimage.open(file, get_fs_offset(file))
>    IOError: [Errno 95] Operation not supported
>    No handlers could be found for logger "xend"
>    Error: Boot loader didn't return any data!
>    Usage: xm create <ConfigFile> [options] [vars]
>
>    .I restarted the xend daemon, but I again get the above output.
>

read "xm log" output, maybe you have more information there..

It sounds like the installer/installation failed, so then you
can't do "xm create".. since there's nothing in the disk image.

-- Pasi

>    Akshay
>
>    --- On Mon, 1/3/10, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>      From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
>      Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Guest boot problem on centOS 5.4
>      To: "Akshay Joglekar" <akshayj_18@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>      Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>      Date: Monday, 1 March, 2010, 1:12 PM
>
>      On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 12:05:35PM +0530, Akshay Joglekar wrote:
>      >    Hi all,
>      >
>      >    I am using a centOS 5.4 system with Xen installed.
>      >
>      >    When I try to create a new VM instance in dom0 using virt-install,
>      the
>      >    process hangs up at:
>      >
>      >    Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 390k
>      >
>      >    Following is the complete output:
>      >
>      >    Linux version 2.6.18-164.el5xen ([1]mockbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
>      (gcc
>      >    version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)) #1 SMP Thu Sep 3
>      04:47:32 EDT
>      >    2009
>      >    BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
>      >     Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000010800000 (usable)
>      >    0MB HIGHMEM available.
>      >    264MB LOWMEM available.
>      >    NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
>      >    ACPI in unprivileged domain disabled
>      >    Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 67584
>      >    Kernel command line:
>      >    method=[2]http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/5.4/os/i386/
>      >    Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
>      >    Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
>      >    Initializing CPU#0
>      >    CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c0750000 soft=c0730000
>      >    PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes)
>      >    Xen reported: 1995.001 MHz processor.
>      >    Console: colour dummy device 80x25
>      >    Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
>      >    Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
>      >    Software IO TLB disabled
>      >    vmalloc area: d1000000-f4ffe000, maxmem 2d7fe000
>      >    Memory: 246016k/270336k available (2162k kernel code, 15832k
>      reserved,
>      >    887k data, 176k init, 0k highmem)
>      >    Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor
>      mode...
>      >    Ok.
>      >    Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4990.95 BogoMIPS
>      >    (lpj=9981902)
>      >    Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
>      >    SELinux:  Initializing.
>      >    selinux_register_security:  Registering secondary module capability
>      >    Capability LSM initialized as secondary
>      >    Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
>      >    CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
>      >    CPU: L2 cache: 1024K
>      >    Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
>      >    SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
>      >    Freeing SMP alternatives: 13k freed
>      >    Brought up 1 CPUs
>      >    checking if image is initramfs... it is
>      >    Freeing initrd memory: 8464k freed
>      >    Grant table initialized
>      >    NET: Registered protocol family 16
>      >    Brought up 1 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: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
>      >    TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
>      >    TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
>      >    TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 8192)
>      >    TCP reno registered
>      >    audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
>      >    type=2000 audit(1267422085.998:1): initialized
>      >    VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
>      >    Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
>      >    Initializing Cryptographic API
>      >    alg: No test for crc32c (crc32c-generic)
>      >    ksign: Installing public key data
>      >    Loading keyring
>      >    - Added public key 581431131FF6A527
>      >    - 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
>      >    brd: module loaded
>      >    Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0
>      >    Event-channel device installed.
>      >    Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37
>      >    input: Xen Virtual Keyboard/Mouse as /class/input/input0
>      >    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
>      >    Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
>      >    XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51712
>      >    XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0
>      >    Initalizing network drop monitor service
>      >    Freeing unused kernel memory: 176k freed
>      >    Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 390k
>      >
>      >    Can someone please help me out? Thanks in advance.
>      >
>
>      So it doesn't start initrd execution?
>      Try restarting xenconsoled in dom0 and see if that helps.
>
>      Also please paste your virt-install cmdline.
>
>      -- Pasi
>
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>    2. http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/5.4/os/i386/
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