Hello,
Ian: Any idea what could cause this error message (more info below):
"XENBUS: Timeout connecting to device: device/vif/0 (state 1)"
User says replacing 2.6.38/2.6.39 pvops dom0 kernel with xenlinux one
fixes the problem..
-- Pasi
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 07:24:54PM +0200, Mario wrote:
>
>
> On 05/15/2011 07:20 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 08:03:45PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 06:41:25PM +0200, Mario wrote:
>>>> On 05/15/2011 06:34 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 06:24:11PM +0200, Mario wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 05/15/2011 06:12 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 06:02:02PM +0200, Mario wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 05/15/2011 05:53 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:36:11PM +0200, Mario wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Hey everyone,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I have been trying to make Xen-4.1.0 work on kernels mentioned in the
>>>>>>>>>> subject, without much sucess. HVM guests are not affected, only PV.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Below you mention gentoo xenlinux patches..
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> So please be more specific about which kernel was vanilla (pvops),
>>>>>>>>> and which kernels had some external patches applied..
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> -- Pasi
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Sorry, both kernels in subject were vanilla from kernel.org, with xen
>>>>>>>> options selected for dom0 usage.
>>>>>>>> I only wanted to point out that networking works if i use kernel
>>>>>>>> patched
>>>>>>>> with rebased gentoo patches.
>>>>>>>> I am talking only about dom0 kernel here, domU kernel does not seem to
>>>>>>>> be the source of the problem.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> OK. What kernel is the PV domU running? What Xen version are you using?
>>>>>>> 4.1 ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -- Pasi
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, i have tried following kernels in domU:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2.6.31.6 (i got this one from stacklet)
>>>>>> 2.6.37.6-domU
>>>>>> 2.6.33.4-domU
>>>>>
>>>>> Are these pvops/vanilla or with some patches?
>>>>
>>>> Those are pvops/vanilla, no patches.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> 2.6.38.6-xen (dom0 kernel)
>>>>>> 2.6.34.7-xen (dom0 kernel)
>>>>>> 2.6.39-rc7-xen (dom0 kernel)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> None of them made any difference, they were all complaining about vif.
>>>>>> Yeah, I am running Xen 4.1
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you using xm/xend or xl/libxl toolstack?
>>>>
>>>> I am using xl/libxl with Xen 4.1
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ok. Have you tried Jeremy's xen.git xen/stable-2.6.32.x as a dom0 kernel?
>>> It would be interesting to know if that works for you or not.
>>>
>>
>> Btw. Did you realize upstream 2.6.38 / 2.6.39 does not yet have
>> xen-blkback driver included? also blktap2 driver is missing.
>>
>> So you you can only use the phy: or file: backends, assuming Xen 4.1,
>> which has the (slow) fallback qemu-based userspace blkback implementation.
>>
>> -- Pasi
>>
>>
>>
>
> Yes i have, but seeing that HVM networking works, i wanted to report the
> PV one that doesn't.
>
>
> m.
>
>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Error that i see in dmesg on the domU:
>>>>>>>>>> XENBUS: Timeout connecting to device: device/vif/0 (state 1)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> ifconfig -a on domU shows MAC address: 00:00:00:00:00:00
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> dom0 doesn't have any vif/tap interfaces assigned to domU when i do
>>>>>>>>>> brctl show or ifconfig -a
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I don't see any errors worth mentioning in /var/log/xen, except mybe
>>>>>>>>>> these two:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> /tmp/SBo/xen-4.1.0/tools/ioemu-qemu-xen/hw/xen_blktap.c:628: Init
>>>>>>>>>> blktap
>>>>>>>>>> pipes
>>>>>>>>>> Could not open /var/run/tap/qemu-read-2
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Problem goes away when i boot 2.6.34.7 (it is the last kernel that i
>>>>>>>>>> have built with gentoo rebased patches).
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> If there is something i can do to help debug this please do let me
>>>>>>>>>> know.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>>>>>> mario
>>>>>>>>>>
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