Re: [Xen-users] xm toolstack fails to build HVMs

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 06:20:32PM +0100, Peter Jameson wrote:
> Using the xm toolstack for building HVMs appears to be broken for me.
> The reason for me wanting to use xm is that usb-add/usb-del are
> unimplemented in xl and from what I've read are not likely to be
> implemented until 4.4. I have tested this on an OpenSUSE 12.3 dom0 as
> well as an Ubuntu Raring dom0 using the Xen builds provided from
> distribution repositories and ran into the same problem on both
> distros. On this Raring dom0, I have set the default toolstack in
> /etc/default/xen to xm and xm list works while xl list doesn't, as
> would be expected. However, when I run xm create xyz.cfg it always
> returns this error, no matter what is on line 1:
> 

Xm parses your config file as python source code. Do you have any
leading whitespaces in your config file?


Wei.

> # xm create /root/xenmachines/test.cfg Using config file
> "/root/xenmachines/test.cfg".  Error: Errors were found at line 1
> while processing /root/xenmachines/test.cfg: kernel =
> "/usr/lib/xen-4.2/boot/hvmloader"
> 
> It always fails on line 1, even if the line is as innocuous as name =
> "test" . /var/log/xend.log is unmodified after these failed attempts.
> Should I switch back to xl, the same cfg file will load fine. I'm not
> sure if more is required to use xm (which would be surprising because
> Ubuntu's default /etc/default/xen is set to xm) or maybe if there's
> some sort-of unexpected syntax or encoding issue here, but I feel like
> I've been running into a brick wall on this since I started and I'm
> just completely failing to find relevant debug info or people with
> similar problems and solutions anywhere, so I came here. Thanks in
> advance for any help that may come my way!
> 
> To be thorough, here is the cfg file I'm trying to run in its entirety
> (this one is basically copy and paste from the wiki's Beginner's
> Guide):
> 
>    kernel = "/usr/lib/xen-4.2/boot/hvmloader" builder='hvm' memory =
>    4096 vcpus=4 name = "test" vif = ['bridge=xenbr0'] disk =
>    ['phy:/dev/guests/test,hda,w','file:/root/raring.iso,hdc:cdrom,r']
>    acpi = 1 boot="d" sdl=0 serial='pty' vnc=1 vnclisten=""
>    vncpasswd=""
> 
> Thanks, Peter

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