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RE: [Xen-devel] Not able to boot domU (root VBD not visible at domU)

To: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Not able to boot domU (root VBD not visible at domU)
From: "Santos, Jose Renato G" <joserenato.santos@xxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 19:01:33 -0800
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Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] Not able to boot domU (root VBD not visible at domU)
  Thanks Ian

  Yes, I was able to boot dom0 on RHEL4 using an initrd.
  I could also boot domU on RHEL4 successfully. The problem
  was indeed redhat 9 which seems to not work well with
  the new way of setting VBD.
  
  Everything was fine when using RHEL4 and a xen-unstable version
  of October 31 (I have to check the exact changeset number when
  I am back at work, Monday). But then I decided to update to the
  newest xen-unstable version (I believe this was on November 3)
  and then was unable to boot domU again (although the behavior
  is somewhat different now: an error message is printed after
  running command xm create).
  I reversed back to the version of October 31 and I have a 
  working version for now. Not sure if others are seing the
  same problem, but some changeset introduced between Oct 31 and 
  Nov 3 is causing a problem with VBD setting for me (i.e. not 
  setting VBD properly when creating domU preventing domU to boot).

  Renato 
   

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Pratt [mailto:m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 11:53 AM
To: Santos, Jose Renato G
Cc: ian.pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx; ian.pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Not able to boot domU (root VBD not visible at
domU)

 
I haven't booted on an RH9 dom0 for a while, but its possible it doesn't
have a new enough hotplug script.

We test Xen under a wide range of different distros including FC2/3/4,
RHEL3/4, SLES9, SuSE Pro 9.3/10 and Debian 

>   Do you think the problem might be related to the fact that I am 
> using an old distro (redhat 9)? I tried using redhat enterprise WS 4, 
> but with this distro I could not even get dom0 to boot (it complained 
> about not being able to open console).

RHEL4 requires an initrd for udev otherwise you won't have a /dev.

Ian

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