Re: [Xen-users] Kickstart

[Paras pradhan <pradhanparas@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Paras pradhan <pradhanparas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Tom <tom.ashley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> A few things things that you may try:
>> 1. Don't use the FQDN, use the IP of the webserver. I found the DNS argument
>
> Even this is not working.
>
>> in the extra line rarely works.
>> 2. is the routing between xen guest and webserver right. Are there and
>> firewall issues?
>
> No firewall
>
>> 3. is the url spelt correctly? Have you missed any case-sensitivity in the
>> path?
>>
>
> Yes its spelt correctly
>
>
>> Those are the things that usually trip me up.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> 2009/3/4 John Haxby <john.haxby@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Paras pradhan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:51 AM, John Haxby <john.haxby@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Paras pradhan wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> extra = "text ks=http://mydomain/ks/centos/5/message-vm1.cfg
>>>>>> ip=10.42.250.4 netmask=255.255.0.0 gateway=10.42.0.1 dns=x.x.x.x"
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is the url really "http://mydomain/ks...";?  If it is then you probably
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That was just an example. I am using FQDN.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's the problem with edited examples :-)
>>>
>>> Regardless, I'd start by looking in the web server logs and if there's
>>> nothing there, break out wireshark.  If that doesn't show anything then your
>>> network isn't being set up.   I'm not entirely sure if the ip=... parameters
>>> are honoured by the centos kernel, you may want to move the IP configuration
>>> into the extra line so that the kernel can pick them up from there.  Either
>>> that or configure a dhcp server so that the kernel can configure itself
>>> early.   Might also be worth swapping the domain name for an IP address.
>>>
>>> jch
>>>
>>> jch
>>>
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>>
>>
>
>
>
> I have a similar machine with different xen version in another machine
> and same thing works over there. This machine is giving me trouble.
>
> Here are the packages in the problematic machine
>
> --
> [root@vm-ext1 init.d]# rpm -qa |grep xen
> kernel-xen-2.6.18-92.el5
> kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5
> xen-libs-3.0.3-64.el5_2.9
> kernel-xen-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5
> xen-3.0.3-64.el5_2.9
> [root@vm-ext1 init.d]#
>
> --
>
> uname -a returns: Linux vm-ext1 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Dec
> 16 12:26:32 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> I am totally confused.
>
>
> Paras.
>

This got resolved. It was a tcp checksum problem.

More info:
http://wiki.wireshark.org/TCP_checksum_offload

Thanks
Paras.

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