Xen and the Art of Ticking me off.....

[Mark Haney]

Maybe off topic, but I'm sure if this really is an issue for the Xen 
team yet.  I have a F8 xen host that has been running flawlessly for 
over a year now.

Late last week I setup a new guest OS (F9) and that worked perfectly. 
It went without a single hitch.  Everything worked fine.

Yesterday I deleted the new guest OS I had just built because the 
software the customer wants to use isn't supported on F9 yet, so I had 
to blow it away and go with F8 instead.

Now, I did a 'xm delete mtg' to delete the domain (after shutting down) 
and then went to virt-install to install the new guest.

But instead of getting an install I get this:

Domain installation may not have been 

  successful.  If it was, you can restart your domain 

  by running 'virsh start geeks'; otherwise, please 

  restart your installation.
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:12:35 ERROR    virDomainLookupByID() failed GET 
operation failed: xend_get: error from xen daemon:
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/sbin/virt-install", line 502, in <module>
     main()
   File "/usr/sbin/virt-install", line 462, in main
     dom = guest.start_install(conscb,progresscb)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 813, 
in start_install
     return self._do_install(consolecb, meter)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 829, 
in _do_install
     self._create_devices(meter)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 727, 
in _create_devices
     nic.setup(self.conn)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 281, 
in setup
     vm = conn.lookupByID(id)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 920, in 
lookupByID
     if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainLookupByID() failed', 
conn=self)
libvirtError: virDomainLookupByID() failed GET operation failed: 
xend_get: error from xen daemon:


I've googled this and I read where they thought the xend isn't running, 
but it is, I have 2 other guests still running.

Another suggestion was to shutdown the virbr0 interface and try it, no 
go.  What I don't understand is what the hell happened between Friday 
and Monday.

Any ideas?


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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
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