Re: [Xen-users] converting full to para

[John Haxby <john.haxby@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Paras pradhan wrote:
> virt-p2v was able to convert my centOS 5.2 physical machine to xen 
> virtual machine and it runs great. Now, I am working on to convert 
> this full virt machine to para virt .
> Under my domU i have installed kernel-xen (since it is needed ) , and 
> edited my grub menu to use the installed kernel. 
> [snip]
> Red Hat nash version 5.1.19.6 <http://5.1.19.6> starting
>   Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
>   No volume groups found
>   Volume group "VolGroup00" not found
> mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
> setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
> setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
> setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
> switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> ---
I think you're missing the xenblk driver.   Try editing 
/etc/modprobe.conf to look like this:
   alias eth0 xennet
   alias scsi_hostadapter xenblk

and then

   mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-2.6.18-92.1.17.el5xen.img 2.6.18-92.1.17.el5xen

jch

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