[Xen-users] RE: Can't Create Guest on FC5 System

[Huntress Gary B NPRI <HuntressGB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the tips I've received.  I shrunk Dom0 enough so that I could 
proceed with installing the guest OS. The guest successfully boots the image 
and the FC5 proceeds through the installation.   I select DHCP and successfully 
get an IP.  The next step I get the error "failed to retrieve 
/fc5tree/Fedora/base/stage2.img  Failed to connect to HTTP server"

The server is running and I can see the first request for vmlinuz and initrd 
and I also verified that stage2.img is available....there are no requests in my 
apache log past the request for initrd.   I'm assuming that there must be some 
sort of networking problem in the guest.   But I am quite sure that it does get 
a DHCP address from our local office LAN.

I thought that my location url of http://localhost might be the problem so I 
changed it to the ip of the box itself.  I received the same error.

Is there another reason that the guest cannot "see" the IP of the parent?

Regards,

Gary Huntress
Code 4113
Naval Undersea Warfare Center
Newport, RI  02841
1-800-669-6892 x28990



-----Original Message-----
From: Huntress Gary B NPRI 
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 8:13 AM
To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Can't Create Guest on FC5 System


This is my first attempt with xen and I'm following along with the quickstart 
guide from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstartFC5.

I have a fresh FC5 install that is fully updated.  The box is a generic dell 
with 512MB and plenty of disk space. xend is running ok and xm list reports  

Name                              ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State  Time(s)
Domain-0                           0      256     2 r-----  1393.4

When I issue 

xenguest-install.py -n xentest -f /tmp/xentest -s 8 -r 256  -l 
http://localhost/fc5tree

it fails with the following in /var/log/xend.log

VmError: I need 257 MiB, but dom0_min_mem is 256 and shrinking to 256 MiB would 
leave only 236 MiB free.

Did I miss a step in the install process?  Is /tmp/xentest supposed to already 
exist?   Or do I need more physical RAM?


Regards,

Gary Huntress
Code 4113
Naval Undersea Warfare Center
Newport, RI  02841
1-800-669-6892 x28990



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