[Fedora-xen] Centos5 Dom0 and Fedora7 DomU

[Markus Armbruster]

"Brian McDonald" <brian.mcdonald at mcdees-specialties.com> writes:

> I am having problems getting a fedora7 domu running under my Centos5 Dom0
> (this is a centos5 server no graphical interface)
>
> I followed the same steps to created the fedora 7 domu as I have for
> creating the cenots5 domu that I have on the same box.
>
> I downloaded the vmlinux and initrd from here
> ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/
> images/xen/
>
> Xm config:
>
> kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-f7xeninstall"
> ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-f7xeninstall"
> extra = "text ks=http://www.mcdees-specialties.com/fed7/minimal-ks.cf"
> name = "fed7"
> memory = "230"
> disk = [ 'tap:aio:/var/lib/xen/images/fed7.img,xvda,w', ]
> #vif = [ '', ]
> vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0', ]
> ip = "192.168.1.202"
> netmask = "255.255.255.0"
> gateway = "192.168.1.1"
> vcpus=1
> on_reboot = 'destroy'
> on_crash = 'destroy'
>
> When I run
> xm create -c fed7inst
>
> it gets to here and stops
>
> .....................................
> Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
> XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51712
> XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 180k freed
> Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 762k
>
> Any and all ideas are welcome

How exactly do you start your guest?

What does starting your guest write to /var/log/xen/ and xm dmesg ?