Xen on Ubuntu: DomU hangs on boot

[Allen Fowler]

> > After I issue the "xm create xen_domu_name" command, no errors are
> > returned, and the "xm list" command shows something like this:
>
> Did you try with "xm create xen_domu_name -c" ?
>

Great shortcut. :)  Though it jhust shows the same (dead?) buffer that "xm console" does.

> Add
> extra = 'xencons=tty'
> to the config file for your DomU. I. e. make it look similar to
>

Wow.  That did something.

Now the process gets a bit further. I wind up with somesort of an "initramfs" prompt.

Here is the "xm console" log...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[68094.497659] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
[68094.500451] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize
[68094.502157] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0
[68094.520344] Xen virtual console successfully installed as tty1
[68094.521939] Event-channel device installed.
[68094.592540] netfront: Initialising virtual ethernet driver.
[68094.597382] xen-vbd: registered block device major 3
[68094.598283] blkfront: hda1: barriers enabled
[68094.602059] blkfront: hda2: barriers enabled
[68094.613491] netfront: device eth0 has copying receive path.
[68094.619304] PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
[68094.621198] i8042.c: No controller found.
[68094.622258] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[68094.623631] TCP cubic registered
[68094.624593] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[68094.625363] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
[68094.626165] XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/console/0
[68094.627239] Freeing unused kernel memory: 200k freed
Loading, please wait...
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
Begin: Loading essential drivers... ...
[68095.347277] AppArmor: AppArmor initialized<5>audit(1196362017.346:2):  type=1505 info="AppArmor initialized" pid=934
[68095.373147] fuse init (API version 7.8)
[68095.397099] Failure registering capabilities with primary security module.
[68095.492666] thermal: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_set_thermal_limit
Done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ...
Done.
Begin: Mounting root file system... ...
Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ...
Done.
Begin: Waiting for root file system... ...

[...STOPS FOR A FEW MINUTES......]
[... THEN...]

Done.
/dev/hda1: unknown volume type
Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ...
Done.
mount: Mounting /dev/hda1 on /root failed: No such device
Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ...
Done.
Done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ...
mount: Mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed: No such file or directory
Done.
mount: Mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory
mount: Mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory
Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init


BusyBox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-5ubuntu7) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

(initramfs)




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