Re: [Xen-devel] Unable to install windowsxp in xen

[Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 12:05:24PM +0530, amitava ghosh wrote:
> Hi,
> I follow the following steps.
> # yum update
> # yum install xen kernel-xen
> # sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/xen/domains/win01/disk.img bs=1M count=4096
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/roo/winxp.disk0 bs=1M count=4096
> # mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
> #  vi /etc/xen/win01.cfg
> 
> kernel = '/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader'
> builder = 'hvm'
> memory = '512'
> device_model = '/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
> disk =
> ['file:/home/xen/domains/win01/disk.img,ioemu:hda,w','file:/dev/cdrom,hdb:cdrom,r']
> name = 'win01'
> vif = [ 'type = ioemu, bridge = xenbr0' ]
> vcpus=1
> vncviewer=1
> vncconsole=1
> usb=1
> usbdevice='tablet'
> 
> # xm create win01.cfg
> Using config file "./win01.cfg".
> VNC= 1
> Unexpected error: <type 'exceptions.OSError'>
> 
> Please report to xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/xm", line 10, in <module>
>     main.main(sys.argv)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/xm/main.py", line 2500, in main
>     _, rc = _run_cmd(cmd, cmd_name, args)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/xm/main.py", line 2524, in
> _run_cmd
>     return True, cmd(args)
>   File "<string>", line 1, in <lambda>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/xm/main.py", line 1302, in
> xm_importcommand
>     cmd.main([command] + args)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/xm/create.py", line 1310, in
> main
>     dom = make_domain(opts, config)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/xm/create.py", line 1055, in
> make_domain
>     os.kill(vncpid, signal.SIGKILL)
> OSError: [Errno 3] No such process

Hi,

that looks a lot like the bug that was solved in xen-unstable with
changesets:

19725: "xm: Don't die when trying to conect the console to short-lived domains"
19728: "xm: Remove redundant os.waitpid() call from do_console()"


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