[Fedora-xen] Problems running xp guest

Falk Zimmermann zimmermann at it.neclab.eu
Thu Aug 23 13:42:57 UTC 2007


Richard W.M. Jones schrieb:
> Falk Zimmermann wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm running FC7 on an x86_64 with the 2.6.20-2925.13.fc7xen kernel and
>> used virt-manager to configure an F7 and xp guest domain. Whereas I can
>> correctly run the F7 guest, I receive the following message after trying
>> to run the xp guest:
>>
>> (xend.err 'Disk image does not exist: ')
>>
>> Both images reside in the same directory (/var/lib/xen/images) and I
>> have selinux disabled.
>> Any ideas?
>
> Can you try:
>
>   virsh dumpxml <xp>
>
> (where <xp> is the name of the XP guest domain).  Then check that the 
> disk device shown has the right path.
>
> Rich.
>
Hi Richard,
the entry in the xml file looks fine (at least to me) and the image file 
exists:

<domain type='xen' id='-1'>
  <name>xp4</name>
  <uuid>1e9860a0e244a2645b0a321a0fe649ec</uuid>
  <os>
    <type>hvm</type>
    <loader>/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader</loader>
    <boot dev='hd'/>
  </os>
  <memory>512000</memory>
  <vcpu>1</vcpu>
  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
  <on_crash>restart</on_crash>
  <features>
    <acpi/>
    <apic/>
    <pae/>
  </features>
  <devices>
    <emulator>/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm</emulator>
    <interface type='bridge'>
      <source bridge='eth0'/>
      <mac address='00:16:3e:72:1b:29'/>
    </interface>
    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <driver name='file'/>
      <source file='/var/lib/xen/images/xp4'/>
      <target dev='hda'/>
    </disk>
    <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
      <driver name='file'/>
      <source file=''/>
      <target dev='hdc'/>
      <readonly/>
    </disk>
    <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' keymap='en-us'/>
  </devices>
</domain>


Cheers,
Falk

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