[Fedora-xen] DomU boot on Fedora 6 fails with 'no root found'error.

[Atsushi SAKAI]

Hi,　Dan

　It seems to be initrd is not configured for DomU.
Is my guess wrong?
or currently initrd is shared by domU and Dom0 on FC6?

Thanks
Atsushi Sakai


"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 07:28:25PM +0530, Ligesh wrote:
> > 
> >  I am trying to get Xen running on Fedora 6, which I thought would be easy, but I guess not. I am using the standard image from jailtime.org and my domU configuration file is below. I am using the same kernel of the host itself.
> > 
> > ------------
> >  kernel     = '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6xen'
> >  ramdisk    = '/boot/initrd-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6xen.img'
> >  memory     = 512
> >  name       = 'test.vm'
> >  vif        = ['vifname=vif-test0,  mac=aa:00:f6:f4:06:1a']
> >  vnc        = 0
> >  vncviewer  = 0
> >  serial     = 'pty'
> >  disk       = ['file:/home/test.vm//root.img,sda1,w', 'file:/home/test.vm//vm.swap,sda2,w']
> >  root = '/dev/sda1 ro'
> >  ------------------
> 
> Xen filesystem images should be kept in /xen (legacy location) or
> /var/lib/xen/images (recommended location) otherwise SELinux will
> deny the VM access to the files & the guest will be unable to
> mount its filesystem. I suspect this could be what's causing your
> VM to not find its root filesystem.
> 
> > 	   Volume group "VolGroup00" not found
> > 	   mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
> 
> 
> 
> Dan.
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