[Fedora-xen] some initial trouble

[Steve Brueckner]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 11:16:48AM -0400, Michael Weiner wrote:
>> Xen readers -
>> 
>> Been trying to get xen working on FC6 for some time now, and i am not
>> sure what i am doing wrong - last time i played with xen it was v2
>> and didnt seem to be this difficult to get working. 
> 
> You've not provided any initrd. 

Yes, initrd's can be a pain with Fedora.  

>> pretty generic, and when i go to fire it up with 'xen create
>> debian-3.1.cfg-c' it starts up and runs for a few moments then dies,
>> leaving the following in the log file:
> 
> The system logs generally don't contain any useful information
> relating to Xen. You should instead look at the Xen logs -
> /var/log/xen/*  

You can also get more information to debug problems by launching with
a console (#xm create -c <domname>).  This will show you the VM booting,
and you'll be able to see errors such as module failures due to a lack
of an initrd.

Steve Brueckner, ATC-NY