Xen in Hardy

[Leandro Pereira de Lima e Silva]

Sander,

That's what I did:
- I was trying to create a virtual machine with hardy on it (hardy on the
host too) using xen-create-image.
- xen-tools isn't coming with hooks for installing hardy (I've already
filled a bug report about that), so I tried symlinking hardy.d to edgy.d
just like the symlinks from feisty.d and gutsy.d.
- Runned: xen-create-image --force --fs ext3 --image-dev
/dev/group/volume_root --memory 512 --passwd --swap-dev
/dev/group/volume_swap --dist hardy --mirror
http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu --gateway gateway_ip_addr --ip ip_addr
--netmask netmask_addr --hostname hostname_addr, where "group/volume_root",
"group/volume_swap", "gateway_ip_addr", "ip_addr", "netmask_addr",
"hostname_addr" are actually other things that I've changed to get some
privacy.
- Tried to boot, but initramfs can't find the root.
- Fixed a few things on the configuration file generated by xen-create-image
(tried different combinations, this is how it ended):
  - Add "root        = '/dev/sda2 ro'" after the memory line.
  - Fixed the disk section that just contained "',sda1,w'," inside of it, at
the end it became:
      disk        = [ 'phy:group/volume_swap,sda1,w',
'phy:group/volume_root,sda2,w' ]
- Add "xenblk" to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and recreated the initrd
file. (the same as the above item, what seemd to work after a few
tentatives)
- Runned xm create -c hostname_addr
- Machine starts to boot and hangs at:
 * Running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local)                            [
OK ]

- Switched to gutsy (in xen-create-image), thinking that maybe it hangs
because of some new hook needed for hardy.
- Got the same problem that I had with hardy.

The LVM group and the volumes existed previously, the machine is an Athlon
64 X2 with 3.5gb of ram. I'm using a custom linux kernel version
2.6.24.3based on the available source for 2.6.24-12-xen. Tried also
using the
official kernel (2.6.24-12-xen) with the original initrd but failed on the
initrd problem that I described above, tried it with a new initrd and it got
stuck in the same "Running local boot scripts [ OK ]" as above.

I'm using xen-tools version 3.8-4ubuntu2 and xen-hypervisor-3.2 version
3.2.0-0ubuntu9.

I tried to cover every aspect that may be relevant to the setup, please tell
me if I've missed anything.


Cheers, Leandro.


2008/4/2, Sander van Vugt <mail at sandervanvugt.nl>:
>
> I've done some, don't know if I can help, but tell us some more about the
> issues you're having.
>
> Sander van Vugt
>
>
> Leandro Pereira de Lima e Silva schreef:
>
> > Is anyone here using Xen (3.2) on Hardy? I'm having some problems with a
> > machine created using xen-tools and I would like discuss that.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --
> > Leandro Pereira de Lima e Silva
> >
>
>


-- 
Leandro Pereira de Lima e Silva
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