Re: [Xen-devel] No VMX-guests on Intel Xeon/VT

[Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry if I missed part of this, have you seen:

http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/VmxQuickstartGuide

Have you installed the libvncserver? For sdl, have you installed the
sdl-devel as well as the sdl package?




On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 20:43 +0100, Thorolf Godawa wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> first thanks a lot for everybody who is reading my posts and thanks a 
> lot for the people who try to help me with my problem.
> 
> I know it's hard to work on beta-hardware with beta-technology, with a 
> beta-OS, beta-drivers and a software that just is a x.0.0-release - but 
> I never give up :-))))
> 
> 
>  >Start the domain with vnc=1 and vncviewer=0. Then execute "vncviewer
>  >ipaddress:dom_id" or "vncviewer localhost:dom_id" to connect to the
>  >domain.
> I tried this already before, but I only get "connection refused".
> 
> 
> OK, where I am right now:
> 
> SuSE Linux 10.1 Beta2 x86-64 with Gnome as desktop on a Dual-Xeon 3,2GHz 
> with dualcore/HT/VT, 4GB RAM with Kernel 2.6.16_rc1_git3-4.
> 
> I installed SuSE Linux completely new, I updated XEN to 3.0.1 and my 
> Linux-guests are still working.
> 
> But I even don't get running a very simple freedos as vmx-xenU, with
> 'qemu -hda /data/xen/images/freedos/freedos.dsk -boot c' it is running 
> with Qemu :-((((
> 
> I tried all the following on an identical machine with the same results, 
> I also tried it SuSE Linux 10.1 Beta2 i386 without success.
> 
> Now I will have a look at SuSE Linux 10.0, but with this the 
> onboard-NICs are not working, so I have to plug in PCI-card.
> BTW: SuSE Linux or SLES is a must!
> 
> 
> I always use the "xmexample.vmx" as base for my vmx-xenU-guests, there I 
> only adjust the following:
> 
> memory = 128
> name = "freedos.vmx"
> vif = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr0' ] # (some times to give a MAC-adr)
> disk = [ 'file:/data/xen/images/freedos/freedos.dsk,ioemu:hda,w' ]
> boot='c'
> sdl=0
> vnc=1
> vncviewer=1
> 
> Now I start the guest with:
> 
> # xm create freedos.vmx
> 
> And I get:
> 
>    Using config file "freedos.vmx".
>    VNC= 1
>    vncviewer -listen: Listening on port 11001 (flash port 10901)
>    vncviewer -listen: Command line errors are not reported until a 
> connection comes in.
>    Started domain freedos.vmx
> 
> But no VNC-viewer is started!
> 
> 
> Trying to connect the server from OS/2, Linux (I also tried it from the 
> XEN 3.0 Live CD) and even Windows results in a 'connection refused' 
> using <xen0-host-ip>:<vm-id> (10.65.0.34:1) or :<5500+vmid> 
> (10.65.0.34:5501) and in an error 'ReadFromRFBServer: rd::EndOfStrem' if 
> I connect at 10.65.0.34:11001 and on the xen0-host I get also an error:
> 
>    vncviewer -listen: invalid command line argument: -log
>    TightVNC viewer version 1.2.9
> 
>    Usage: vncviewer [<OPTIONS>] [<HOST>][:<DISPLAY#>]
>    ...
>    ..
> 
> 'xm list' and 'xm top' telling me the following:
> 
> # xm list
>    Name                              ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State  Time(s)
>    Domain-0                           0     3873     4 r-----   171.7
>    freedos.vmx                        1      128     1 -b----     0.0
> 
> # xm top
> xentop - 19:54:59   Xen 3.0.1
> 2 domains: 1 running, 1 blocked, 0 paused, 0 crashed, 0 dying, 0 shutdown
> Mem: 4186112k total, 4181288k used, 4824k free    CPUs: 4 @ 3192MHz
> 
> NAME  STATE   CPU(sec) CPU(%)     MEM(k) MEM(%)  MAXMEM(k) MAXMEM(%) 
> VCPUS NETS NETTX(k) NETRX(k) SSID
>    Domain-0 -----r        172    0.0    3965268   94.7   no limit 
> n/a     4    8     8712   158371    0
> freedos.vmx --b---          0    0.0     131356    3.1     131356 
> 3.11    0        0        0    0
> 
> No I shutdown the xenU.
> 
> As suggested I change in the config:
> 
> vncviewer=0
> 
> and start freedos again, 'netstat -nat' doesn't tell me anything new, 
> but anyway I try it, this time with vmid 2 but with the same result as 
> before :-(
> 
> Next try is changing the config again:
> 
> sdl=1
> vnc=0
> vncviewer=0
> 
> Now finaly I get a local window open, it shows some BIOS-info, s.th. 
> about booting from harddisk and finally the boot-menu, if I press 1 or 2 
> the boot-menu disappears and I get only a cursor in the left upper 
> corner (F8) lets me say twice 'Y' the it also stops, and on pressing 3 I 
> get a black, then a blank screen and the window closes :-(
> 
> But the xenU-domain is still running:
> 
>    Name                              ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State  Time(s)
>    Domain-0                           0     3873     4 r-----   499.3
>    freedos.vmx                        7      128     1 -b----     1.2
> 
> So I shut it down.
> 
> 
> I also created images with VirtualPC/2 (Warp Server and WinXP) and 
> copied them with dd into an image-file, I can start both images with 
> Qemu, well both aren't working really because they are trapping in Qemu, 
> but actually they should do something if started as vmx-domU - but there 
> is no activity at all, no window opens (sdl=1), 'xm list' and 'xm top' 
> say that the OS is running (with status 'b') but CPU is at 0 all the 
> time - configurations are the same than the ones for freedos (exept for 
> memory=512)!
> 
> 
> Today I also tried the XEN 3.0-Demo-CD on the machine and it's running.
> 
> Does this version also supports Intel/VT as VMX-guests? I could not find 
> the vmxloader in the fs, so probably it isn't integrated?
> 
> 
> Thanks very much for your help,


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