Xen in Hardy

[Todd Deshane]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Leandro Pereira de Lima e Silva
<leandro at limaesilva.com.br> wrote:
> 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 2.6.24.3
> based 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.
>
>

try hda instead of sda.

Also there are some bugs on
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xen-3.2/+bugs

that have at least workarounds for many of the problems that I ran
into initially.

Todd

>  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
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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