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Re: [Xen-devel] xl create doesn't like kernel

To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] xl create doesn't like kernel
From: Mike Wright <mike.wright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:53:56 -0700
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On 07/04/2011 01:54 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 20:31 +0100, Mike Wright wrote:
Hi all,

New to xen-4 and the new tools.

Running xen-4.1.1 with linux-3.0.0-rc5.

I have a kernel that boots on bare metal that I thought should boot as a
domU.

This is the command: xl create vm1

Here are the first few lines of vm1's config file:

Please can you provide the whole file please.

Thanks for replying, Ian.

Turns out I'd messed up in a couple of places. I'd used sda for my targets instead of xvda and no 'root =' in the vm's config.

In the vm's /etc/fstab I hadn't adjusted / and /swap to /dev/xvda?, nor had I commented out /boot.

After that all was well in virtualization land ;)


# Kernel image file.
kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686"

# Optional ramdisk.
ramdisk = "/boot/initramfs-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686.img"

Those paths are valid within the dom0 filesystem?

Here is the error message:

Parsing config file vm1
xc: error: elf_xen_note_check: ERROR: Will only load images built for
the generic loader or Linux images: Invalid kernel
libxl: error: libxl_dom.c:196:libxl__build_pv xc_dom_parse_image failed:
Success
cannot (re-)build domain: -3

Does "xl -vvv create vm1" give any more information?

I downloaded kernel-PAE-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686.rpm from
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/15471895/dir/fedora_14/com/kernel-PAE-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686.rpm.html
 (actually
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/fedora/linux/releases/14/Everything/i386/os/Packages/kernel-PAE-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686.rpm
 ) which contained /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686.PAE with md5sum 
09b04a528e1cb4939abb05c739b360e6 and it booted OK for me (until it failed due 
to lack of a ramdisk). I tried recent xen-unstable and current tip of 
xen-4.1-testing.hg (23096:45f5bdc1a90a).

I've attached "bzexlode.c" if you compile it then you can use it to
extract the payload from the vmlinuz, which you can then decompress to
get an elf file and run /usr/lib/xen/bin/readnotes on e.g:
         # /root/bzexplode /root/vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686.PAE | file -
         [...]
         /dev/stdin: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Tue Oct 19 
00:50:15 2010, max compression
         # /root/bzexplode /root/vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686.PAE | zcat>  
/tmp/x
         [...]
         # file /tmp/x
         /tmp/x: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), 
statically linked, stripped
         # /usr/lib/xen/bin/readnotes /tmp/x
         GUEST_OS: linux
         GUEST_VERSION: 2.6
         XEN_VERSION: xen-3.0
         VIRT_BASE: 0xc0000000 (4 bytes)
         ENTRY: 0xc0a39000 (4 bytes)
         HYPERCALL_PAGE: 0xc0402000 (4 bytes)
         FEATURES: !writable_page_tables|pae_pgdir_above_4gb
         PAE_MODE: yes
         LOADER: generic
         L1_MFN_VALID: mask=0x1 value=0x1
         SUSPEND_CANCEL:        0x1 (4 bytes)
         HV_START_LOW: 0xf5800000 (4 bytes)
         PADDR_OFFSET:          0 (4 bytes)

Does that match what you see?


I've seen a lot of the same errors on google but not for xen-4 and xl.

Any helpers out there?

TIA,
Mike Wright

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