I have run into a problem installing fedora 7 as a guest on a Xen machine.
The host machine is a amd64 – Debian lenny install. Running 2.6.20-1-xen-amd64
xm info
host : debxen
release : 2.6.20-1-xen-amd64
version : #1 SMP Tue Apr 24 22:23:22 UTC 2007
machine : x86_64
nr_cpus : 4
nr_nodes : 1
sockets_per_node : 2
cores_per_socket : 2
threads_per_core : 1
cpu_mhz : 2800
hw_caps : 178bfbff:ebd3fbff:00000000:00000010:00002001:00000000:0000001f
total_memory : 8191
free_memory : 1
xen_major : 3
xen_minor : 0
xen_extra : .3-1
xen_caps : xen-3.0-x86_64 hvm-3.0-x86_32 hvm-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_64
xen_pagesize : 4096
platform_params : virt_start=0xffff800000000000
xen_changeset : Tue Oct 17 22:09:52 2006 +0100
cc_compiler : gcc version 4.1.2 20061028 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-19)
cc_compile_by : ultrotter
cc_compile_domain : debian.org
cc_compile_date : Fri Nov 3 00:21:27 CET 2006
xend_config_format : 2
I have downloaded the fedora 7 DVD, I have extracted the xen vmlinuz and zen initrd.img
This is my fedora7.cfg
#
# Kernel + memory size
#
kernel = '/etc/xen/data/fedora7/vmlinuz'
ramdisk = '/etc/xen/data/fedora7/initrd.img'
memory = '1024'
extra = 'pnpacpi=off sync_console vnc vncpassword=qwerty text vncconnect=16.144.29.11'
#bootloader = '/usr/lib/xen-3.0.3-1/bin/pygrub'
#
# Disk device(s).
#
disk = [ 'phy:vglocal/fedora7-disk,xvda,w' ]
#
# Hostname
#
name = 'fedora7'
#
# Networking
#
dhcp = 'dhcp'
#vif = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr0' ]
vif = [ '' ]
#
# Behaviour
#
on_poweroff = 'destroy'
on_reboot = 'restart'
on_crash = 'restart'
serial = "pty"
localtime = 0
vcpus = 2
I tried something similar with RHEL5 and it worked, fedora7 is getting stuck
From xm console fedora7
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
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 4096 blocksize
input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0
Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0
Event-channel device installed.
usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new interface 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
TCP bic registered
Initializing XFRM netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51712
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 938k
I not sure what is mean to come after here for me to guess where it might be getting stuck. Can any one provide any hints or know what is going wrong. Maybe there is a mis match of the xen versions ???
Thanks
Alex