[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [Xen-users] Re: Fc5 guest on FC6 host
Bump. Any idea what's wrong? Thanks, R. Robin Bowes wrote: > Hilton Day wrote: >> Robin, >> >> The kernel-xen package is PAE-enabled kernel in FC5 too I believe, so >> you need to upgrade the kernel in your domU to that. (however, the >> kernel-xen0 and kernel-xenU packages, as you've found, aren't PAE) >> >> I see 2 alternatives here (in both cases, back up the domU image first >> using dd or similar): >> >> 1. Try the FC5 to FC6 upgrade process by running xenguest-install with >> FC6, against the FC5 disk image. I'm not sure if the upgrade process works >> >> or 2. More involved, but using rpm to install the PAE-enabled >> kernel-xen from FC5.. read on :) > > Hilton, > > Thanks for the detailed instructions. > > I wasn't going to bother fixing this as it's only a test system - I > thought I'd just make a mental note to use kernel-xen on my guests in > future. But, the challenge got too much for me so I had a go! > > Here's what I did: > > mkdir /mnt/guest1 > losetup /dev/loop0 /home/xen/disks/guest1 > kpartx -av /dev/loop0 > vgchange -ay > mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /mnt/guest1 > mount /dev/mapper/loop0p1 /mnt/guest1/boot/ > mount -t proc proc /mnt/guest1/proc > mount -t sysfs sys /mnt/guest1/sys > wget http://example.com/path/to/kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.i686.rpm > rpm -ivh --root /mnt/guest1 kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.i686.rpm > perl -pi -e 's/^default=1/default=0/' /mnt/guest1/boot/grub/grub.conf > umount /mnt/guest1/sys > umount /mnt/guest1/dev > umount /mnt/guest1/proc > umount /mnt/guest1/boot > umount /mnt/guest1 > vgchange -an VolGroup00 > kpartx -dv /dev/loop0 > losetup -d /dev/loop0 > > I then tried to start the guest: > > # xm create /etc/xen/auto/guest1 > Using config file "/etc/xen/auto/guest1". > Going to boot Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2200.fc5xen) > kernel: /xen.gz-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5-PAE > Error: (22, 'Invalid argument') > > I see this msg in xend-debug.log: > > ERROR: Not a Xen-ELF image: No ELF notes or '__xen_guest' section found. > ERROR: Error constructing guest OS > > So, the kernel's installed but it won't boot. > > Any further ideas? > > R. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
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