Hello,
I am trying to set up a fully virtualized windows xp. I have many problems. Here is my configuration (Dell XPS M1210): vmx, pae, 2*2GHz, RAM 512Mo, fedora core 6, xen 3.03 Disk sda, Cdrom hdc broadcom B44, intel ipw3945 Fedora is in Domain-0 and I would like to add guest windows xp.
First of all I have no internet access when booting the xen kernel. The problem may come from fedora, I found a patched kernel : http://people.redhat.com/sct/packages/kernel/kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2857.4.2.fc... which solve the errors I could find in fedora dmesg but I still don't have internet access. ifconfig shows errors in eth0 and there are lots of interfaces I don't know about. See 2006_12_07_errors_no_eth0_kernel_sctxen
Then here is how I have proceeded for my installation: - Create a partition for windows in my LVM group: principal/winxp (1,5 Go) - Launch virt-manager and configure a new virtual guest: winxp, fully virtualized, from cdrom, install to /dev/principal/winxp, use 100 Mo for the new guest
On validation a window open and the installation begins. It is all marvellous until the (normal) reboot of the guest; then I have been unable to create the guest again "xm create winxp". Fedora as only sda and hdc, whereas windows as hda as first drive. I don'y know if it is a problem, I have the line : DEBUG (blkif:24) exception looking up device number for hda: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: \047/dev/hda\047 Else, the guest reboot quickly (1,5s) so xend stop it after a while.
I tried to change from hda to sda in the configuration file; to install to a file; to install from an iso...
When changing hda to sda vnc come up and I can see a bosch error. See 2006_12_07_errors_xm_dmesg_second_attempt_sda and from "[2006-12-07 12:34:45" in the xend_logs
When installing the guest in a file I can reboot and get vnc but the screen is all black and the guest is automatically "paused" with 0% CPU and 26% (around 30Mo) memory. See 2006_12_07_errors_xm_dmesg_from_scratch_reboot and from [2006-12-07 13:42:02 in the xend_logs
When installing from an iso: impossible, virt-manager (libvirt?) can't see my iso (which I checked with a mount -o ro,loop). As this problem can come from a selinux policy I did: "semanage fcontext -l | grep xen_image_t" and put the iso in /xen but it solved nothing.
Thank you very much for your help, (I am not a member of the list, keep me on the CC please)
Guillaume
nota bene, some errors I could get from places to places and that might be enough to understand where the problem come from: DEBUG (blkif:24) exception looking up device number for hda: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: \047/dev/hda \047 (XEN) (GUEST: 13) int13_harddisk: function 42. LBA out of range (XEN) (GUEST: 13) int13_harddisk: function 08, unmapped device for ELDL=81 (XEN) (GUEST: 12) *** int 15h function AX=E980, BX=00F2 not yet supported! (XEN) (GUEST: 12) unsupported PCI BIOS function 0x0E (XEN) (GUEST: 12) int13_harddisk: function 15, unmapped device for ELDL=81
// Fedora dmesg PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at f0000000 is not E820-reserved audit(1165470833.831:44): avc: denied { read write } for pid=6706 comm="ifconfig" name="principal-winxp" dev=tmpfs ino=1066 scontext=system_u:system_r:i fconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:fixed_disk_device_t:s0 tclass=blk_file
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Guiber