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


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  • From: Abhishek Dixit <abhidixit87@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 21:18:07 +0530
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On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Abhishek Dixit <abhidixit87@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?
Ok I applied the patch

sudo patch -p1 -s -i ../grub2-fix1.patch1
Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [n]
Apply anyway? [n] y
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file
tools/pygrub/src/GrubConf.py.rej

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