[rhelv6-list] rhel6 xenU on rhel5.5 domU - no console

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Fri Nov 12 21:01:33 UTC 2010


On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 13:07, Rich Graves <rgraves at carleton.edu> wrote:
> I installed rhel6-server-x86_64 as a paravirt domU on fully patched rhel5.5, using virt-install. It runs fine.
>
> But "xm console" doesn't work for me. What simple thing am I missing?
>
> xm create -c displays only:
>
>  Using config file "/etc/xen/rhel6".
>  Started domain rhel6
>  PCI: Fatal: No config space access function found
>
> It never gets a login prompt (after many minutes of waiting, with some CRLFs sent). When the guest shuts down, I see "System halted." Otherwise, nothing comes out of the xm console.

I would first check that the grub.conf  is setup correctly. Here is an
excerpt from a working beta box.

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-71.el6.i686 ro .... console=hvc0

> I searched bugzilla and saw no complaints, but some hints that it was working for other people during the beta period.
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