[Fedora-xen] guests install problems

[Justin Conover]

On 3/27/06, Winston Chang <winston at stdout.org> wrote:
>
> I had the same problem and I just figured out a workaround.  The
> issue is that the curses screen-drawing library isn't happy -- it
> can't print the nice grub-like kernel selection menu.  On my
> computer, this is because I sshed in from a Mac Terminal window.
> When I connected via an xterm, it worked fine.
>
> Seems like a bug to me.
>
> --Winston



That sounds like a good possiblity since I'm at work and sshd to it, I'll
try running it on the box and see what happens.


On Mar 27, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Justin Conover wrote:
>
> > I created a guest with the python script xenguest-install.py when I
> > run
> >
> > # /usr/sbin/xm create -c webserver1
> >
> > I get the following error
> >
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "/usr/bin/pygrub", line 258, in ?
> > curses.wrapper(run_main)
> > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/curses/wrapper.py", line 44, in wrapper
> > return func(stdscr, *args, **kwds)
> > File "/usr/bin/pygrub", line 214, in run_main
> > sel = main(cf)
> > File "/usr/bin/pygrub", line 162, in main
> > (stdscr, win) = draw_window()
> > File "/usr/bin/pygrub", line 33, in draw_window
> > curses.use_default_colors()
> > _curses.error: use_default_colors() returned ERR
> > Error: Boot loader didn't return any data!
> >  #xm log (3-27-06)
> >
> > [2006-03-27 09:30:26 xend] ERROR (XendBootloader:84) Boot loader
> > didn't return any data!
> > [2006-03-27 09:32:18 xend] INFO (SrvDaemon:192) Xend stopped due to
> > signal 15.
> > [2006-03-27 09:32:18 xend] INFO (SrvDaemon:285) Xend Daemon started
> > [2006-03-27 09:32:18 xend] INFO (SrvDaemon:289) Xend changeset:
> > unavailable .
> > [2006-03-27 09:32:18 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:
> > 199) XendDomainInfo.recreate({'paused': 0, 'cpu_time':
> > 13021637090975L, 'ssidref': 0, 'handle': [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
> > 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], 'shutdown_reason': 0, 'dying': 0, 'dom':
> > 0, 'mem_kb': 762984, 'maxmem_kb': -4, 'max_vcpu_id': 1, 'crashed':
> > 0, 'running': 1, 'shutdown': 0, 'online_vcpus': 2, 'blocked': 0})
> > [2006-03-27 09:32:18 xend.XendDomainInfo] INFO (XendDomainInfo:211)
> > Recreating domain 0, UUID 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000.
> > [2006-03-27 09:32:18 xend] DEBUG (XendDomain:151) number of vcpus
> > to use is 0
> > [2006-03-27 09:32:19 xend] INFO (SrvServer:114) unix path=/var/lib/
> > xend/xend-socket
> > [2006-03-27 09:32:22 xend] ERROR (XendBootloader:84) Boot loader
> > didn't return any data!
> >
> > This file compared to the examples seems to be missing info, but
> > that might be because the create -c didn't start/finish what it does.
> >
> >
> > # cat /etc/xen/webserver1
> >
> > # Automatically generated xen config file
> > name = "webserver1"
> > memory = "256"
> > disk = [ 'file:/xen/webserver1,xvda,w' ]
> > vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:14:83:a4' ]
> > bootloader="/usr/bin/pygrub"
> >
> > on_reboot   = 'restart'
> > on_crash    = 'restart'
> >
> >
> > # xm list
> > Name                              ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State  Time(s)
> > Domain-0                           0      745     2 r----- 13017.5
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