[Xen-users] Re: installing xen on a vmware work station

[Abhishek Dixit <abhidixit87@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Abhishek Dixit <abhidixit87@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Abhishek Dixit <abhidixit87@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I am trying to run Xen inside a Vmware guest.
>> So I installed Vmware on a VT machine which is 64 bit.
>> Then installed Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit HVM.
>> Now I compiled Xen-4.0.1 from sources and a pv-ops Dom0 kernel for the same.
>> Changed the grub etc and got kernel panics (and some errors which
>> could not be logged)
>>
>>
>> Step 1)
>> apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev xserver-xorg-dev mercurial gitk
>> build-essential libncurses5-dev uuid-dev gawk gettext texinfo bcc
>> libncurses5-dev dpkg-dev debhelper iasl texinfo bridge-utils bison
>> flex apt-get build-dep xen-3.3
>>
>> Step 2)
>> cd /usr/src
>> git clone
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git linux-2.6-xen
>> cd linux-2.6-xen
>> git checkout -b xen/stable-2.6.32.x origin/xen/stable-2.6.32.x
>>
>> Step 3)
>> make -j 2
>> make modules_install install
>> chmod g-s /usr/src -R
>> make deb-pkg
>> dpkg -i ../linux-image*2.6.32.25*.deb
>> depmod 2.6.32.25
>> update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.32.25
>>
>> Here I am not clear as how did the version changed from 2.6.32.25 as
>> original git pull happened at 2.6.32.27
>>
>>
>> echo “xen-evtchn” >> /etc/modules
>>
>>
>> Step  4)
>>
>> tar -xzvf  xen-4.0.1.tar.gz
>> cd /usr/src/xen-4.0.1
>>  make xen
>>  make tools
>>  make install-xen
>>
>>  make install-tools PYTHON_PREFIX_ARG=
>>
>> at this point I got some errors during make install-tools PYTHON_PREFIX_ARGS=
>>
>>
>> xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c:2353: error: expected declaration specifiers
>> before ‘initxc’
>> xen/lowlevel/xc/xc.c:2382: error: expected ‘{’ at end of input
>> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
>> make[3]: *** [buildpy] Error 1
>> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/xen-4.0.1/tools/python'
>> make[2]: *** [subdir-install-python] Error 2
>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/xen-4.0.1/tools'
>> make[1]: *** [subdirs-install] Error 2
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/xen-4.0.1/tools'
>> make: *** [install-tools] Error 2
>>
>>
>>
>> Step 5)
>>
>> So I had installed from this page http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen4.0
>> apt-get install bcc bin86 gawk bridge-utils iproute libcurl3
>> libcurl4-openssl-dev bzip2 module-init-tools transfig tgif texinfo
>> texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended texlive-fonts-extra
>> texlive-fonts-recommended pciutils-dev mercurial build-essential make
>> gcc libc6-dev zlib1g-dev python python-dev python-twisted
>> libncurses5-dev patch libvncserver-dev libsdl-dev libjpeg62-dev iasl
>> libbz2-dev e2fslibs-dev git-core uuid-dev ocaml libx11-dev bison fle
>>
>> apt-get install  gcc-multilib xz-utils
>> then proceeded with make install-tools
>>
>>
>>
>> Step 6)
>>
>> update-rc.d xend defaults 20 21
>> update-rc.d xendomains defaults 21 20
>>
>> Things upto here worked perfectly.
>> Now I reboot in Xen with grub entry
>>
>>
>> menuentry 'Xen 4 Ubuntu 10.04 kernel 2.6.32.25 ' {
>>        insmod ext2
>>        set root='(hd0,1)'
>>        multiboot (hd0,1)/boot/xen.gz dummy=dummy
>>        module  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.25 dummy=dummy noapt
>> root=/dev/sda1 ro console=tty0
>>        module  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32.25
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Now  I see a lot of kernel panic and similar messages which did not
>> got logged in any where?
>> Can any one tell me what wrong thing did I do above since there is no
>> log any where?
>>
>> Can some where I can catch these errors some how?
>>
> Here are some logs
> /var/log/messages
>
> Mar  2 07:26:16 ubuntu rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd"
> swVersion="4.2.0" x-pid="672" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com";]
> (re)start
> Mar  2 07:26:16 ubuntu rsyslogd: rsyslogd's groupid changed to 103
> Mar  2 07:26:16 ubuntu rsyslogd: rsyslogd's userid changed to 101
>
>
> /var/log/boot
>
> (Nothing has been logged yet.)
>
> /var/log/boot.log
>
>
> fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
> udevd[326]: BUS= will be removed in a future udev version, please use
> SUBSYSTEM= to match the event device, or SUBSYSTEMS= to match a parent
> device, in /etc/udev/rules.d/99-vmware-scsi-udev.rules:12
> ^M
> udevd[326]: SYSFS{}= will be removed in a future udev version, please
> use ATTR{}= to match the event device, or ATTRS{}= to match a parent
> device, in /etc/udev/rules.d/99-vmware-scsi-udev.rules:12
> ^M
> /dev/sda1: clean, 328783/1253376 files, 3982056/5012992 blocks
>  * Setting sensors limits       ^[[80G ^M^[[74G[ OK ]
>  ^[[33m*^[[39;49m Speech-dispatcher configured for user sessions
>  * Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd       ^[[80G ^M^[[74G[ OK ]
>  ^[[33m*^[[39;49m PulseAudio configured for per-user sessions
>  * Enabling additional executable binary formats binfmt-support
> ^[[80G ^M^[[74G[ OK ]
>  * Checking battery state...       ^[[80G ^M^[[74G[ OK ]
>
> /var/log/debug
>
> Mar  2 07:26:11 ubuntu rtkit-daemon[1402]: Sucessfully called chroot.
> Mar  2 07:26:11 ubuntu rtkit-daemon[1402]: Sucessfully dropped privileges.
> Mar  2 07:26:11 ubuntu rtkit-daemon[1402]: Sucessfully limited resources.
> Mar  2 07:26:11 ubuntu rtkit-daemon[1402]: Running.
> Mar  2 07:26:11 ubuntu rtkit-daemon[1402]: Watchdog thread running.
> Mar  2 07:26:11 ubuntu rtkit-daemon[1402]: Canary thread running.
> Mar  2 07:26:12 ubuntu rtkit-daemon[1402]: Supervising 1 threads of 1
> processes of 1 users.
> Mar  2 07:26:12 ubuntu rtkit-daemon[1402]: Supervising 2 threads of 1
> processes of 1 users.
> Mar  2 07:26:18 ubuntu rtkit-daemon[1402]: Supervising 3 threads of 1
> processes of 1 users.
>
> /var/log/dmesg
> http://pastebin.com/PXzbBrET
>
>
> Ok here is some  more information when I booted without the hypervisor
> I was able to cleanly boot into the pv-ops Dom0 kernel.
> i.e. with following grub entry
> menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32.25' --class ubuntu --class
> gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
>        recordfail
>        insmod ext2
>        set root='(hd0,1)'
>        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set ef6fb0a3-17d8-46b8-944b-4d84fbd3c236
>        linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.25
> root=UUID=ef6fb0a3-17d8-46b8-944b-4d84fbd3c236 ro   quiet splash
>        initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32.25
> }
>
> but if I try to boot with hypervisor i.e. following grub
>
>
>  menuentry 'Xen 4 Ubuntu 10.04 kernel 2.6.32.25 ' {
>         insmod ext2
>         set root='(hd0,1)'
>         multiboot (hd0,1)/boot/xen.gz dummy=dummy
>         module  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.25 dummy=dummy noapt
>  root=/dev/sda1 ro console=tty0
>         module  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32.25
>  }
>
> then I get some panic etc.
>
> uname -a
> Linux ubuntu 2.6.32.25 #1 SMP Wed Mar 2 02:03:42 PST 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>


How can I download a patch from here
http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-4.0-testing.hg/file/065efaec5e71/tools/pygrub/src/GrubConf.py
or
http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-4.0-testing.hg?rev/065efaec5e71
Changeset 21112 pygrub: Fix Grub2 support for Ubuntu 10.04
I do not see a download option here?
-- 
Regards
Abhi

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