Re: [Xen-users] Xen 4.2.1 unable to get domain type for domid

[Andrew Eross <eross@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ian,

Thanks for the feedback -

Strangely myself I've given it another shot, and I've had better luck now using the xen-create-image tool instead of trying to directly launch the netboot installer myself.

Using the exact same setup as I had before, I manually installed the Ubuntu packaged xen-tools and created an image with xen-create-image, like this:

apt-get install libtext-template-perl libconfig-inifiles-perl libfile-slurp-perl liblist-moreutils-perl

wget http://mirror.pnl.gov/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/xen-tools/xen-tools_4.3.1-1_all.deb

dpkg -i xen-tools_4.3.1-1_all.deb

xen-create-image --hostname=ubuntu \

  --memory=512mb \

  --vcpus=2 \

  --lvm=center \

  --dhcp \

  --pygrub \

  --dist=precise

I'm still a little wary that perhaps there's a bug in xl since the netboot image should've worked I think, but happy that this method does work.

Cheers,

Andrew

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Ian <murrayie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 18/02/13 20:17, Andrew Eross wrote:

Hi guys,

I eventually gave up and went back to Xen 4.1.4, which works perfectly fine using the exact same install method and Ubuntu domU configuration, but just with xm.

I wrote up how I did the Xen 4.2.1 install here for reference -
http://locatrix.com/building-and-installing-xen-4-2-1-from-source-on-ubuntu-12-10/

And the Xen 4.1.4 install here -
http://locatrix.com/building-and-install-xen-4-1-4-from-source-on-ubuntu-12-10/

I hope maybe some others could give it a try and see if they also are unable to install Ubuntu domUs with xl on 4.2.1 like I'd been trying to.

Cheers,
Andrew

I have 12.04 DomU's running under 12.04 Dom0 on self compiled 4.2.1, using xl toolstack

The only issue I have had is that 12.04 DomU ends up with a non-PAE kernel, which needs to be fixed after the install. 12.10 DomU's don't appear to suffer this. No idea what the difference is between our set-ups, although I just use LVMs and always specify a MAC address.

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