[Fedora-xen] libvir: Xen error on Guest install - Fedora 6 64-bit

achan at jonathan360.com achan at jonathan360.com
Thu Aug 30 14:57:10 UTC 2007


I'm having difficulties getting Xen to run on Fedora 6 64-bit.  The host 
system is a dual core opteron server with 1gb of ram.  This server does 
not have X installed and is only reachable via ssh, so any graphical 
tools can't be used.

I have the following installed

xen-3.0.3-9
libvirt-0.3.1-1
kernel-xen-2.6.20-1.3001

The xen kernel loads fine:

Linux removed.removed.com 2.6.20-1.3001.fc6xen #1 SMP Thu Aug 9 16:18:42 
EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

and domU is up and running:

Name                                      ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State   Time(s)
Domain-0                                   0      723     2 r-----     30.9

When i use virt-install i get the following

 virt-install --nographic
Would you like a fully virtualized guest (yes or no)?  This will allow 
you to run unmodified operating systems. yes
 What is the name of your virtual machine? ostrich
 How much RAM should be allocated (in megabytes)? 256
 What would you like to use as the disk (path)? 
/usr/virtualServers/ostrich.iso
 How large would you like the disk (/usr/virtualServers/ostrich.iso) to 
be (in gigabytes)? 4
 What is the virtual CD image, CD device or install location? 
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/7/Fedora/x86_64/os/

Starting install...
libvir: Xen error : Domain not found: xenUnifiedDomainLookupByUUID
Retrieving file Fedora...                                       286 kB 00:01
Retrieving file boot.iso. 100% |=========================| 7.8 MB    00:17
libvir: Xen error : Domain not found: xenUnifiedDomainLookupByName
Creating storage file...  100% |=========================| 4.0 GB    00:00
Creating domain...                                                 0 B 00:01
Domain installation still in progress.  You can reconnect to
the console to complete the installation process.

At this point I get dumped back to a command prompt.  If i try to 
reconnect to the console, I get:

xenconsole: Could not read tty from store: No such file or directory

I have no idea what to do from this point.  I have checked log files 
however I can't find what's wrong.  xend.log shows

[2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] DEBUG (DevController:472) 
hotplugStatusCallback /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/3/768/hotplug-status.
[2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] DEBUG (DevController:486) 
hotplugStatusCallback 1.
[2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for 
devices irq.
[2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for 
devices vkbd.
[2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for 
devices vfb.
[2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for 
devices pci.
[2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for 
devices ioports.
[2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for 
devices tap.
[2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] DEBUG (DevController:143) Waiting for 
devices vtpm.
[2007-08-30 10:48:31 xend 3449] INFO (XendDomain:370) Domain ostrich (3) 
unpaused.

and the qemu-dm log says

domid: 1
qemu: the number of cpus is 1
shared page at pfn:ffff, mfn: 8cef
buffered io page at pfn:fffd, mfn: 8cf1
xs_read(): vncpasswd get error. 
/vm/6416a433-45ac-af5d-5a04-6f23be199dc4/vncpasswd.
Could not initialize SDL - exiting

I've spent three days with this and I haven't been able to find any 
help.  I've found a lot of hints but nothing has worked.  If someone can 
offer some assistance I'd greatly appreciate it!




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