[libvirt] virsh create Guest Crashing

Chris Lalancette clalance at redhat.com
Mon May 19 15:14:01 UTC 2008


Kenneth Nagin wrote:
> Setting up new root fs
> setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
> no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
> setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory.
> setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
> Switching to new root and running init.
> unmounting old /dev
> unmounting old /proc
> unmounting old /sys
> switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
> Booting has failed.
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> 
> I see two possible sources to the problem:
> XENBUS: Device with no driver ...
> and
> setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
> ...
> switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
> 
> Is there libvirt xml equivalent to the XEN configuration file's root =
> "/dev/xvda1 ro"?
> 

OK, yeah.  The XENBUS: Device with no driver can be ignored, I'm pretty sure.
The problem is probably what you think, that you don't have a root=/dev/xvda1
line in there.  Other people will have to comment on whether there is a libvirt
XML equivalent, since I'm just not sure.

Chris Lalancette




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