Re: [Xen-users] Fully virtualized guest boot problem

[Abhishek Gaurav <gaurav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Petersson, Mats wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of anant
> > Sent: 12 February 2007 13:02
> > To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Fully virtualized guest boot problem
> >
> >
> > I got the similar problem with FC6 and Xen 3.0.3.Finally i 
> > had to change the
> > disto which worked quite well for me. So try your best to 
> > work out, if it
> > doesnt then i would suggest you to move on with OpenSuSE10.2 
> > which is really
> > stable in getting windows or linux based guest OS on top of Xen
> >     
> However, I doubt that the distribution is really the problem here, it's
> most likely the fact that FC and OpenSuSE are using slightly different
> versions of Xen, and thus works differently. 
>
> I'm pretty sure the actual base-distribution is (pretty much) irrelevant
> - there are some obscure cases, but in general it's not an issue. 
>
> I don't see anything wrong in the configuration or the log messages. Are
> you running Intel or AMD processor?
>
>   
Hi Mats,
I am running on an AMD64 processor. Could that be the reason for this 
problem ? I haven't tried it on an Intel machine.
So, similar to Anant, do you also suggest to try OpenSuse instead FC6 ?

Thanks,
Abhishek.

> --
> Mats
>   
> > All the Best
> > Anant
> >
> > Abhishek Gaurav wrote:
> >     
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am new to Xen and I am trying to start a fully 
> > >       
> > virtualized machine on 
> >     
> > > an AMD64 base system running FC6. I have an FC2 image for 
> > >       
> > booting the 
> >     
> > > guests. I get the following problem when the VM starts booting. The 
> > > status of the VM as seen from xm list is 'running' forever.
> > > (XEN) (GUEST: 44) HVM Loader
> > > (XEN) (GUEST: 44) Detected Xen v3.0.3-rc3-1.2798.f
> > > (XEN) (GUEST: 44) Writing SMBIOS tables ...
> > > (XEN) (GUEST: 44) Loading ROMBIOS ...
> > > (XEN) (GUEST: 44) Loading Cirrus VGABIOS ...
> > > (XEN) (GUEST: 44) SVM go ...
> > > (XEN) (GUEST: 44)  rombios.c,v 1.138 2005/05/07 15:55:26 
> > >       
> > vruppert Exp $
> >     
> > > (XEN) (GUEST: 44) VGABios $Id: vgabios.c,v 1.61 2005/05/24 16:50:50 
> > > vruppert Exp $ (XEN) (GUEST: 44) HVMAssist BIOS, 1 cpu, 
> > >       
> > $Revision: 1.138 
> >     
> > > $ $Date: 2005/05/07 15:55:26 $
> > >
> > > (XEN) (GUEST: 44)
> > > (XEN) (GUEST: 44) ata0-0: PCHS=12292/16/32 translation=none
> > > LCHS=1024/16/32
> > > (XEN) (GUEST: 44) ata0 master: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-7 
> > >       
> > Hard-Disk (3073 MBytes)
> >     
> > > (XEN) (GUEST: 44) ata0  slave: Unknown device
> > > (XEN) (GUEST: 44)
> > > (XEN) (GUEST: 44) Booting from Hard Disk...
> > > (XEN) (GUEST: 44) int13_harddisk: function 41, unmapped 
> > >       
> > device for ELDL=81
> >     
> > > (XEN) (GUEST: 44) int13_harddisk: function 08, unmapped 
> > >       
> > device for ELDL=81
> >     
> > > (XEN) (GUEST: 44) *** int 15h function AX=00C0, BX=0000 not 
> > >       
> > yet supported!
> >     
> > > My config file looks like this:
> > > name = "grc59"
> > > builder = "hvm"
> > > memory = "1024"
> > > disk = [ 'file:/root/guestos/fc2_86_64/hd.img,ioemu:hda,w', ]
> > > vif = [ 'type=ioemu, mac=00:16:3e:1b:ce:29, bridge=xenbr0', ]
> > > uuid = "76e3de0e-8e6f-656c-4e06-62752c2b6641"
> > > device_model = "/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm"
> > > kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
> > > nographic=1
> > > apic=1
> > > acpi=1
> > > pae=1
> > > boot='c'
> > >
> > > vcpus=1
> > > serial = "pty" # enable serial console
> > > on_reboot   = 'restart'
> > > on_crash    = 'restart'
> > >
> > > Can anybody please let me know what is that I am doing wrong?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Abhishek.
> > >
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