[Fedora-xen] Running SLES 10 as pv guest in Fedora 7

[Felix Schwarz]

Hi,

I tried to run a SLES 10 installation as (pv) guest in Fedora 7 but the guest 
does not start.

First, I installed SLES using HVM which was somewhat slow (due to Suse's 
graphics mode) but worked. After that I installed kernel-xen from the SLES 
install media.

I found Gerd Hoffmann's very helpful page 
http://et.redhat.com/~kraxel/xen/suse-guest.html and tried to incorporate his 
suggestions regarding the domUloader.

My current config:
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name = "sles10_64_test"
memory = "512"

disk = [ 'tap:aio:/var/lib/xen/images/sles10_64_test,hda,w', ]

vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:4a:f5:f0, bridge=eth0', ]

vfb = [ 'type=vnc,vncunused=1' ]

uuid = "b1fd65e84128ced2dc435bb9d2e1861e"
bootloader="/tmp/sles-install/domUloader.py"
bootentry = "hda2:/boot/vmlinuz-xen,/boot/initrd-xen"
vcpus=1
on_reboot   = 'restart'
on_crash    = 'restart'
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/tmp/sles-install/domUloader.py exists and is executable, SElinux is configured 
as permissive.

I guess something is wrong with the bootloader, from /var/log/xen/xend.log:
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2007-07-26 19:28:47 4590] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1463) XendDomainInfo.constructDomain
[2007-07-26 19:28:47 4590] DEBUG (balloon:113) Balloon: 538932 KiB free; need 
2048; done.
[2007-07-26 19:28:47 4590] DEBUG (XendDomain:443) Adding Domain: 33
[2007-07-26 19:28:47 4590] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1517) 
XendDomainInfo.initDomain: 33 256
[2007-07-26 19:28:47 25532] DEBUG (XendBootloader:100) Launching bootloader as 
['/tmp/sles-install/domUloader.py
', '--output=/var/run/xend/boot/xenbl.24430', '-q', 
'/var/lib/xen/images/sles10_64_test'].
(xm command hangs, nothing happens anymore, have to kill the guest)
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Did anyone manage to run SLES {9,10} as pv guest?

thank you for reading :-)
fs