Hello all,
I am a Masters student working on my thesis and have to go use Xen for live migration purposes. I have a Xen installation on Fedora 8, and been trying for past 3 months to create guest domains and get them running for further migration work. I took 3 different approaches, but got stuck with each of those. I would be very grateful if you could point out as to where I am going wrong...
1. Basic command:
xm create -c vm01-config.sxp vmid=1
The config file is kept in /etc/xen folder.
ERROR:
VFS: Cannot open root device "hd0" or unknown-block(0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
WHAT I PUT IN:
root = '/dev/hd0' or '/dev/hda' or '/dev/sda2'
None worked. I am not sure what the option should be.
2. Using the command:
virt-install -f /etc/xen/xen1 -r 256
WHAT IT DOES:
Asks for config parameters and creates virtual
machine, but I am not sure how to proceed with completion process. In
the install location, I put in a OS image at a mirror site:ERROR:
Unable to find image at given location
This is the only approach which creates a VM, but the machine is not completely running (not functional or doesnt consume any memory). Am I supposed to have the guest image on my machine?
3. Using "virt-manager" in GUI
ERROR:
Asks for "Connect to host network" but "shared physical devices" list
is empty. It is supposed to list eth0, peth0 etc. Something to do with
creating a bridge. I tried the approach of NAT, but for that I have to
use approach 1 to create a machine, which gets stuck on "root" error.
Libvirtd is not running. It gave the message:
libvir: Remote error : Connection refused
libvir: warning : Failed to find the network: Is the daemon running ?
libvir: Remote error : Connection refused
xend is running, I checked status.
If anyone could devote a little of their time to help me out, as I am not comfortable with kernel administration/OS admin, I would be really thankful.
Thanks & Regards,
Siddharth Wagh
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