[Fedora-xen] Newby Help

Tue Apr 8 18:44:05 UTC 2008

Thanks for the suggestion.  I tried it and Alt-F3 showed a message about
dropping to a serial console due to lack of memory, so I tried it again
with this command line:

sudo virt-install -n hockey -r 512 -f /var/lib/xen/images/hockey.img -s
4 --vnc -l
http://192.168.1.117/mirror/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/x86_64/os/
Password:

Starting install...
libvir: Xen error : Domain not found: xenUnifiedDomainLookupByUUID
Retrieving file fedora.cs 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB
00:00
Retrieving file vmlinuz.. 100% |=========================| 1.8 MB
00:00
Retrieving file initrd.im 100% |=========================| 5.6 MB
00:00
libvir: Xen error : Domain not found: xenUnifiedDomainLookupByName
Creating storage file...  100% |=========================| 4.0 GB
00:00
Creating domain...                                                 0 B
00:00

VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.2 for X - built Jul 18 2006 06:59:52
Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.

Tue Apr  8 11:14:19 2008
 main:        unable to resolve host by name: Success (0)
Domain installation still in progress.  You can reconnect to
the console to complete the installation process.

and a dialog box with the same message:

unable to resolve host by name: Success (0)

popped up on my workstation.  Despite that, Virtual Machine Manager was
able to open it, so I see the Anaconda window.  Most of the console
windows are blank, but a screenshot of Alt-F3 is attached, in hopes
someone can interpret it with more success than I've had.  The serial
console shows:

IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14-xen <tigran at veritas.com>
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1207679422.076:1): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux:  Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
ksign: Installing public key data
Loading keyring
- Added public key 4D36EEF71C3A3150
- User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
rtc: IRQ 8 is not free.
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 4096 blocksize
Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0
Event-channel device installed.
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37
input: Xen Virtual Keyboard/Mouse as /class/input/input0
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
usbcore: registered new driver libusual
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
i8042.c: No controller found.
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
TCP bic registered
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51712
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vkbd/0
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vfb/0
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 440k

Looking at the screen shot, it appears that several transfers from the
tree were successful, which makes it seem as though basic networking is
working.  Since the messaging for stage2.img is the same, it looks as
though that was also successful and the hang up is in the next item.
Not having seen it, I'm pretty vague on what it is or why it might fail.
I didn't check Alt-F4, as that causes the window to go away (on Windows
XP), is it likely to be interesting?  If so, is there an alternate way
to get at it?

Continued thanks!
Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: Walter Coole 
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 3:41 PM
To: 'Markus Armbruster'
Cc: Chris Lalancette; fedora-xen at redhat.com
Subject: RE: [Fedora-xen] Newby Help

The originating host (where I'm running virt-install) has SELinux in
"Permissive" mode.  The web server (192.168.1.117) had SELinux in
"Secure" mode, so I changed it to "Permissive" mode.  I don't think
SELinux is started on the system being installed, but if someone knows
how to set or confirm that, I'd be happy to be corrected.  I'm not
finicky about the path where the file lives, so I tried it with
/var/lib/xen/images/hockey.img.  The symptom is unchanged: stuck at
minstg2.img.

The revised command line is:

sudo virt-install -n hockey -r 256 -f /var/lib/xen/images/hockey.img -s
4 --nographics --noautoconsole -l
http://192.168.1.117/mirror/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/x86_64/os/

Thanks!
Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: Markus Armbruster [mailto:armbru at redhat.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 12:58 AM
To: Walter Coole
Cc: Chris Lalancette; fedora-xen at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] Newby Help

"Walter Coole" <WCoole at aperiogroup.com> writes:

> Thanks for the hint; sorry it took so long for me to try several
> different approaches.
>
> I hadn't tried virt-install; I had assumed that virt-manager's Create
> Wizard did the equivalent job.

Uh, I must have somehow missed that you used virt-manager, not
virt-install.  Telling us exactly how you interact with either is
fine.  Telling us how you run virt-install is easier, though.

> Trying virt-install, this is what my session looked like:
>
> sudo virt-install -n hockey -r 256 -f /xen/fedora/hockey.img -s 4
> --nographics --noautoconsole -l
> http://192.168.1.117/mirror/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/x86_64/os/
> Password:

This is an unusual image location.  Is SELinux enabled?  Does
/var/lib/xen/images/hockey.img work?

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