Hi,
I introduce myself, I’m David and I’m
preparing for RHCE and Xen is a pre-requisite for the lab exam, I’ve
worked with OpenVZ but never with Xen so I’m confused with all this,
though I’ve read Xen doc, it still bugs me.
I’ve got the infamous “Console is not yet
active for guest” issue, when I first installed stock Xen from CentOS
(3.0, if I’m not wrong) and started virt-manager, insralled WinXP SP3
Fully virtualized it worked and when I opened the console I could see
XP’s desktop and work with it, but I wanted to install x64 CentOS x86_64
as DomU but as I read 3.0 doesn’t support that, so I decided to download
and compile Xen 3.3 from source, Installed it but could never get it to boot, I
guess that’s my mistake on some Grub line, then I googled for Xen 3.3
repos, I found one and Installed from there, now Xen starts fine but whenever I
try to connect to XP’s console using virt-manager I get “Console is
not yet active for guest” tried installing CentOS and the same error
shows on virt-console
I’ve read many posts but they don’t give
me any lead on this, I know I might have something wrong somewhere but as
I’m a n00b with Xen, I’m a bit frustrated
My setup is as follows:
CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on an HP Proliant ML-115 with 2GB
of RAM the specs for the server are the standard from HP
I’m using Xen 3.3.0 from this repo:
baseurl=http://www.gitco.de/repo/xen3.3.0
[root@ut3 ~]# uname –r
2.6.18-92.1.22.el5xen
[root@ut3 ~]# xm dmesg
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(XEN) Xen version 3.3.0 (root@xxxxxxxxx) (gcc version
4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42)) Tue Sep 9 20:18:14 CEST 2008
(XEN) Latest ChangeSet: unavailable
(XEN) Command line:
(XEN) Video information:
(XEN) VGA is text mode 80x25, font 8x16
(XEN) VBE/DDC methods: V2; EDID transfer time:
1 seconds
(XEN) Disc information:
(XEN) Found 1 MBR signatures
(XEN) Found 1 EDD information structures
(XEN) Xen-e820 RAM map:
(XEN) 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00
(usable)
(XEN) 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000
(reserved)
(XEN) 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000
(reserved)
(XEN) 0000000000100000 - 000000007fff0000
(usable)
(XEN) 000000007fff0000 - 000000007fffe000 (ACPI
data)
(XEN) 000000007fffe000 - 0000000080000000 (ACPI
NVS)
(XEN) 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000
(reserved)
(XEN) 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fef00000
(reserved)
(XEN) 00000000ff780000 - 0000000100000000
(reserved)
(XEN) System RAM: 2047MB (2096700kB)
(XEN) ACPI: RSDP 000F8F60, 0024 (r2
HP )
(XEN) ACPI: XSDT 7FFF0100, 005C (r1
HP ML115 G1 10000717
FOXC 97)
(XEN) ACPI: FACP 7FFF0290, 00F4 (r3
HP ML115 G1 10000717
FOXC 97)
(XEN) ACPI: DSDT 7FFF04D0, 45C7 (r1
HP ML115 G1 100 INTL
20051117)
(XEN) ACPI: FACS 7FFFE000, 0040
(XEN) ACPI: APIC 7FFF0390, 0070 (r1
HP ML115 G1 10000717
FOXC 97)
(XEN) ACPI: MCFG 7FFF0450, 003C (r1
HP ML115 G1 10000717
FOXC 97)
(XEN) ACPI: SPMI 7FFF0490, 003D (r1
HP ML115 G1 10000717
FOXC 97)
(XEN) ACPI: OEMB 7FFFE040, 0060 (r1
HP ML115 G1 10000717
FOXC 97)
(XEN) ACPI: HPET 7FFF4AA0, 0038 (r1
HP ML115 G1 10000717
FOXC 97)
(XEN) ACPI: SSDT 7FFF4AE0, 0182 (r1
HP ML115 G1 1
FOXC 1)
(XEN) Xen heap: 14MB (14716kB)
(XEN) Domain heap initialised
(XEN) Processor #0 15:3 APIC version 16
(XEN) Processor #1 15:3 APIC version 16
(XEN) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 17, address
0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
(XEN) Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1
I/O APICs
(XEN) Using scheduler: SMP Credit Scheduler (credit)
(XEN) Detected 1600.017 MHz processor.
(XEN) AMD SVM: ASIDs disabled.
(XEN) HVM: SVM enabled
(XEN) CPU0: AMD K8 machine check reporting enabled.
(XEN) CPU0: AMD Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor
1210 stepping 03
(XEN) Booting processor 1/1 eip 8c000
(XEN) AMD: Disabling C1 Clock Ramping Node #0
(XEN) AMD SVM: ASIDs disabled.
(XEN) CPU1: AMD K8 machine check reporting enabled.
(XEN) CPU1: AMD Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor
1210 stepping 03
(XEN) Total of 2 processors activated.
(XEN) ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
(XEN) -> Using new ACK method
(XEN) checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs:
(XEN) CPU#0 had -26 usecs TSC skew, fixed it up.
(XEN) CPU#1 had 26 usecs TSC skew, fixed it up.
(XEN) Platform timer is 25.000MHz HPET
(XEN) Brought up 2 CPUs
(XEN) I/O virtualisation disabled
(XEN) *** LOADING DOMAIN 0 ***
(XEN) Xen kernel: 64-bit, lsb, compat32
(XEN) Dom0 kernel: 64-bit, lsb, paddr 0xffffffff80200000
-> 0xffffffff807034e4
(XEN) PHYSICAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT:
(XEN) Dom0 alloc.:
000000007a000000->000000007c000000 (472978 pages to be allocated)
(XEN) VIRTUAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT:
(XEN) Loaded kernel:
ffffffff80200000->ffffffff807034e4
(XEN) Init. ramdisk:
ffffffff80704000->ffffffff80e8cc00
(XEN) Phys-Mach map:
ffffffff80e8d000->ffffffff81238c90
(XEN) Start info:
ffffffff81239000->ffffffff812394a4
(XEN) Page tables:
ffffffff8123a000->ffffffff81247000
(XEN) Boot stack: ffffffff81247000->ffffffff81248000
(XEN)
TOTAL:
ffffffff80000000->ffffffff81400000
(XEN) ENTRY ADDRESS: ffffffff80200000
(XEN) Dom0 has maximum 2 VCPUs
(XEN) Scrubbing Free RAM: .done.
(XEN) Xen trace buffers: disabled
(XEN) Std. Loglevel: Errors and warnings
(XEN) Guest Loglevel: Nothing (Rate-limited: Errors
and warnings)
(XEN) Xen is relinquishing VGA console.
(XEN) *** Serial input -> DOM0 (type 'CTRL-a'
three times to switch input to Xen)
(XEN) Freed 108kB init memory.
(XEN) traps.c:2134:d0 Domain attempted WRMSR
0000000000000410 from 00000000:00000000 to 00000000:00043bff.
Sorry if I made a repeated question but I’m not
too much into joining mailing lists to get a problem solved and then leave, I 1st
look my problem up and as a last resource I ask.
Thanks for any help that can be provided.
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