Re: [Xen-users] can't create 1st domain on debian

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon Guerrero wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I've taken the plunge and decided to set up Xen on my AMD64 machine. I 
> want to use amd64 debian as the domain 0 O/S, then install a full 
> amd64 debian dev kit and a couple of 32-bit linuxes on top.
AFAIK, 64 bit Xen will not run 32 bit domains.  This is a planned 
feature, but not for the very near term future.  

> My problem now is that I can never get the xm create command to work. 
> My config file (/etc/xen/linuxdev) looks like this:
> name="linuxdev"
> memory=512
> kernel="/boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xenU"
> nics=1
> disk=] 'file:/srv/linuxdev.img,hda1,w', 
> 'file:/src/linuxdev_home.img,hda2,w' ]
> root="/dev/hda1 ro"
There's an obvious syntax error there in the disk line.  Is this a 
copy-paste error?
> The kernel image file exists and is the -xenU equivalent of my -xen0 
> working domain0 image (both from the binary unstable dist).
> Before I try xm create, xm list shows me:
>
> Name               Id      Mem(MB)      CPU   VCPU(s)   State      
> Time(s)
> Domain-0          0                 123           0               1    
> r----           18.3
> When I do
>    xm create /etc/xen/linuxdev -c
>
> I get:
>
> Using config file "/etc/xen/linuxdev".
> Error: Error creating domain: (0, 'Error')
>
> xm list now shows:
>
> Name               Id      Mem(MB)      CPU   VCPU(s)   State      
> Time(s)
> Domain-0          0                 635           0               1    
> r----           19.5
> Note the memory increase in Domain-0. Each time I try xm create it 
> goes up until it runs out of memory.
Woah!  That's crazy.  How old of a version of Xen is this?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Looking at /var/log/xend-debug.log, the last line says:
>
>   File 
> "/local/scratch/xenod/cron-build/xen-unstable-x86_64.ud6331.dir/xen-unstable.hg/dist/install/usr/lib64/python/xen/xend/image.py", 
> line 248, in buildDomain
> error: (0, 'Error').
>
> I notice that line 248 of image.py on my system is a call to 
> xc.linux_build.
> Hopefully this is some really dumb xen newbie thing I'm doing wrong. 
> Can anyone help?
> Sorry for the size of the email; I wanted to include everything.
>
> Simon
>     
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