Re: [Xen-devel] Problems

[Ori Shalev <orish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I've recently installed xen successfully on Mandrake.

> 6). Ourxen-mynewdom file is as follows:
> > domain new
> > physical grant –p/dev/hda5
> > domain start
> >
> > 7). When we create a domain with the script above, we also get a 
> > warning about nothing in /var/lib/xen and that it cannot find 
> > /dev/hda5.
> 

I also had problem no. 7, but when I changed the second line of mynewdom
to:
physical grant -phda5
it worked.

Ori.


On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 13:20, Bin Ren wrote:
> On 24 Nov 2003, at 05:02, Jaswinder S. Ahluwalia wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> >  
> >
> > We followed the instructions listed 
> > athttp://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~br260/xeno-howto. We are using Mandrake 9.2 
> > on a P4 1.6 ghzwith 512mb of ram. We have several issues:
> >
> >  
> >
> > 1). On our first boot up into domain zero it says it can’t find any of 
> > the hardware (cdrom, hda, fd0, etc.).
> 
> It says it can't find any of the hardware, but you still manage
> to boot and log into Domain0. It must be some bugs that
> create all these noises.
> 
> > 2). We get a lot of warnings when booting into domain zero and when 
> > starting domains about files that should be in /var/lib/xen or 
> > xeno-something.
> 
> This is sth new to me. Let me look into this.
> 
> > 3). xen_nat_enable doesn’t exist.
> 
> It's under 'tools/misc'. Current Makefile doesn't
> copy it to '../../../install/bin'. That's why you can't
> find it. Just copy it from 'tools/misc' into PATH.
> 
> > 4). xen_read_console says it cannot bind to a port.
> 
> You have to successfully run 'xen_nat_enable' before
> running 'xen_read_console &' ('&' means running in background).
> You must run it as 'root'.
> 
> > 5).  Ourxenctl.xml is as follows:
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > <domctl_defaults>
> > <domain_name>XenoLinux</domain_name>
> > <domain_size_kb>98304</domain_size_kb>
> > <domain_image>/boot/xenolinux.gz</domain_image>
> > <domain_vifs>1</domain_vifs>
> > <domain_init_rd>/boot/initrd.img</domain_init_rd>
> > <root_device>/dev/hda5</root_device>
> > <root_args>ro</root_args>
> > <args>DOMID=+</args>
> > <nw_ip>192.168.1.5+</nw_ip>
> 
> It's better for you to use:
> <nw_ip>169.254.1.0+</nw_ip>
> 
> > <nw_gw>192.168.1.1</nw_gw>
> 
> Use:
> <nw_gw>169.254.1.0</nw_gw>
> 
> > <nw_mask>255.255.255.0</nw_mask>
> > <max_domain_number>1000</max_domain_number>
> > <xi_tools_dir>/usr/local/bin/</xi_tools_dir>
> > </domctl_defaults>
> >
> > 6). Ourxen-mynewdom file is as follows:
> > domain new
> > physical grant –p/dev/hda5
> > domain start
> >
> > 7). When we create a domain with the script above, we also get a 
> > warning about nothing in /var/lib/xen and that it cannot find 
> > /dev/hda5.
> 
> Looks like noise again.
> 
> > 8). We can initially ping the new domain once it has been started but 
> > cannot ssh into it.
> 
> After you successfully run 'xen_nat_enable'
> and 'xen_read_console &', you will see
> XenoLinux boot message on your console
> when starting a new domain.
> 
> Look into the message and see if there is
> any line talks about 'starting sshd'.
> 
> If so, it's obvious that you don't link 'sshd'
> into your run level directory (similar to
> /etc/rc2.d for level 2, etc). Do that.
> 
> -- Bin
> 
> 
> 
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