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RE: [Xen-users] Can't boot HVM Linux guests on Debian Squeeze Dom0

To: "John Weekes" <lists.xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Try using eth0 as the bridge device. On my squeeze box they named the
bridge eth0 and the real eth0 got named peth0.


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[mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Weekes
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 7:50 PM
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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Can't boot HVM Linux guests on Debian Squeeze
Dom0

On 3/9/2011 5:20 PM, Garrett Robinson wrote:
> Success! I was able to boot my HVM sarge guest after making two
changes.
>
> The first repaired a simple mistake - I had partitioned a single disk 
> image using the installer in qemu with a swap and an everything else 
> partition. The "Domain not found" error went away as soon as I 
> replaced the erroneous "hda1" with "hda" in the disk parameter.

Shoot, I missed that, too.

> The second is more of a long-standing problem. In order to get the 
> guest to boot, I need to completely disable networking by commenting 
> out the vif=[] line. Trying to use networking, even with the defaults,

> results in the "xenbr0 not found" error seen earlier in 
> /var/log/xen/qemu-dm-sarge.

That's one that I still don't quite get, but must have something to do 
with broken networking scripts.

> Another question I have is this: had anybody had any luck using 
> tap:aio on Xen4.0/Debian? Simply replacing "file:" with "tap:aio" did 
> not work. I would love to take advantage of the efficiency of the aio 
> driver, so any advice with regards to this would be appreciated!

Try "tap2:tapdisk:aio:" -- it should work, in 4.0.1. Failing that, try 
"tap:tapdisk:aio".

-John

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