[Fedora-xen] Problems using XEN on FC6

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 12:51:24PM -0000, Jamie Burns wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am having problems using XEN on FC6.
> 
> I have installed a fresh FC6 machine from the DVD, only running "yum 
> update -y" after the install.
> 
> I have attempted to start a DomU install but it just won't work.
> 
> ====================================================
> 
> # xenguest-install --debug --file /dev/sda4 --location 
> http://10.0.0.101/FC6 --name export1 --nographics --paravirt --ram 256

[snip]

> # xm console export1
> xenconsole: Could not read tty from store: No such file or directory

For some reason xenstored is missing the data specifiying what
Psuedo TTY the guest console is on. The /var/log/xen/xend-*.log
files may contain useful information.

> xenstored --pid-file /var/run/xenstore.pid
> root      1902  0.0  1.1  11608  3972 ?        S    12:33   0:00 python 
> /usr/sbin/xend start
> root      1904  0.1  1.6  73192  5360 ?        Sl   12:33   0:01 python 
> /usr/sbin/xend start
> root      1906  0.0  0.1  12152   592 ?        Sl   12:33   0:00 xenconsoled
> root      1907  0.0  0.2  13492   728 ?        Ssl  12:33   0:00 blktapctrl

This is good - the neccessary Xen daemons are all running at least.

> # xm list
> Name                                      ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State   Time(s)
> Domain-0                                   0      326     2 r-----    104.2
> export1                                    1      256     1 r-----    849.6

The guest you created appears to have started up too - so for some reason
just the console is messed up. Can you also post the output of

  virsh dumpxml export1

Which will show us the actual live virtual hardware configuration it is
running with

Regards,
Dan.
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