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Re: [Xen-users] VM keeps rebooting when building via pxe

To: "Pinto, Melzer" <Melzer.Pinto@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] VM keeps rebooting when building via pxe
From: Melody Bliss <melodybliss@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:10:09 -0800
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You want
on_crash="destroy"
on_reboot="destroy"

instead of restart. Then, upon reboot, it will destroy the current VM.
You'd then used a running config that uses pygrub as your bootloaded
instead. This config would have

on_reboot="restart"
on_crash="restart"

Mel


On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Pinto, Melzer <Melzer.Pinto@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to build a Xen VM(THEL 5.3 and OEL 5.5) via pxe boot. I’m able
> to get the dhcp and tftp servers to respond to the pxe request and the VM
> starts building. However when it reboots it goes back to building again
> instead of booting up. Has anyone seen this kind of behavior before? I tried
> both RHEL and OEL. I think the problem might be bootloader pypxeboot line
> but I’m not sure. Here is the vm.cfg
>
>
>
> bootargs = 'bridge=xenbr0,mac=00:16:3E:35:C7:95,type=netfront'
>
> bootloader = '/usr/bin/pypxeboot'
>
> disk =
> ['file:/var/ovs/mount/ADB5300DA0664B9C8CBDBAC34BFFC5A1/running_pool/52_vm4/System.img,xvda,w']
>
> memory = 2048
>
> name = '52_vm4'
>
> on_crash = 'restart'
>
> on_reboot = 'restart'
>
> uuid = '25fd9fa0-e383-4e11-98d8-1921d787547a'
>
> vcpus = 2
>
> vfb = ['type=vnc,vncunused=1,vnclisten=0.0.0.0,vncpasswd=xxxxxx']
>
> vif = ['bridge=xenbr0,mac=00:16:3E:35:C7:95,type=netfront']
>
> vif_other_config = []
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Melzer Pinto
>
>
>
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