Re: [Xen-users] xen 4.2 unstable / squeeze 6.0.2

[Christian Motschke <christian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

When you use hvmloader you have to use hda instead of xvda. Xvd* is the name 
for paravirt. block devices but it seems that you want to use full 
virtualization.

Viele GrÃÃe.
Christian

Am 08.07.2011 um 14:42 schrieb "Walter Robert Ditzler" <ditwal001@xxxxxxxxx>:

> hi xen cracks :-),
> 
> everything works fine, booting of the squeeze box, starting of the xen 4.2
> deamon, .... I have also defined the first xen guest, a debian 6.0.2 amd64,
> on a 100G lvm partition. when I start the guest, xl create server01.cfg, it
> starts the guest with the cdrom iso image attached which contains the debian
> squeeze 6.0.2 network setup.
> 
> now, in the guest during the debian setup, it searches for a disk or
> partition but can't find any. does anyone have a glue why is that? do I make
> a mistake in the xen guest script which is pasted bellow this email?
> 
> I really appreciate any information's, had several horrible nights behind me
> :-)
> 
> thanks walter
> 
> 
> i have a xen installation:
> root@xxx:~# xm info
> host                   : xxx
> release                : 2.6.39.2
> version                : #3 SMP Tue Jul 5 17:40:07 CEST 2011
> machine                : x86_64
> nr_cpus                : 4
> nr_nodes               : 1
> cores_per_socket       : 4
> threads_per_core       : 1
> cpu_mhz                : 2128
> hw_caps                :
> bfebfbff:20000800:00000000:00000940:0000e3bd:00000000:0
> 0000001:00000000
> virt_caps              : hvm
> total_memory           : 8190
> free_memory            : 2070
> free_cpus              : 0
> xen_major              : 4
> xen_minor              : 2
> xen_extra              : -unstable
> xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_64 xen-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_32
> hvm-3.0-x                                     86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_64
> xen_scheduler          : credit
> xen_pagesize           : 4096
> platform_params        : virt_start=0xffff800000000000
> xen_changeset          : Mon Jun 27 17:37:12 2011 +0100 23607:2f63562df1c4
> xen_commandline        :
> cc_compiler            : gcc version 4.4.5 (Debian 4.4.5-8)
> cc_compile_by          : root
> cc_compile_domain      : xxx
> cc_compile_date        : Tue Jul  5 02:55:54 CEST 2011
> xend_config_format     : 4
> 
> on a debian squeeze box, hp dl 160g5:
> 2.6.39.2 #3 SMP Tue Jul 5 17:40:07 CEST 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 1 proc
> 2 x hd 250gb (16gb swap,234gb /)
> 2 x hd 2 tb (lvm for xen guests)
> 8gb ram
> 
> root@xxx:~# lvdisplay
>  --- Logical volume ---
>  LV Name                /dev/vgmain/lv_server01
>  VG Name                vgmain
>  LV UUID                fBUAud-JrIE-1wqK-tWk7-mCPm-lcgZ-Iavp0Z
>  LV Write Access        read/write
>  LV Status              available
>  # open                 0
>  LV Size                100.00 GiB
>  Current LE             25600
>  Segments               1
>  Allocation             inherit
>  Read ahead sectors     auto
>  - currently set to     256
>  Block device           253:0
> 
> 
> with the xen guest config script:
> name            = 'server01'
> kernel          = 'hvmloader'
> builder         = 'hvm'
> device_model    = 'qemu-dm'
> maxmem          = 2048
> memory          = 2048
> vcpus           = 2
> acpi            = 1
> apic            = 1
> 
> vif             = ['bridge=eth0']
> disk            =
> ['phy:/dev/vgmain/lv_server01,xvda,w','tap:aio:/var/local/xen/debian602-amd6
> 4.iso,ioemu:hdc:cdrom,r']
> boot            = 'dc'
> #usbdevice       = 'tablet'
> 
> vnc             = 1
> vnclisten       = '0.0.0.0'
> vncviewer       = 1
> 
> sdl             = 0
> 
> stdvga          = 1
> serial          = 'pty'
> ne2000          = "1"
> 
> on_poweroff     = 'destroy'
> on_reboot       = 'restart'
> on_crash        = 'restart'
> 
> 
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