A small observation :
disk = [ 'file:/root/vmrootfs,sda1,w']
Where as
in these steps u have
dd if=/dev/zero of=vm1disk bs=1k seek=2048k count=1
>
> mkfs -t ext3 vm1disk
>
> mount -o loop vm1disk /mnt
So shouldnt it be something like
disk = [ 'file:/root/vm1disk,sda1,w']
Just my thougts ..
--Dakshina
--- Constantinos Hassapis <conhassapis@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I switched to Fedora Core 5 and I now have a few
> problems when booting
> a domU virtual machine with Xen (as provided by the
> FC5 installation).
> I get the following boot trace when trying to bot a
> domU:
>
> Mounting proc filesystem
> Mounting sysfs filesystem
> Creating /dev
> Creating initial device nodes
> Setting up hotplug.
> Creating block device nodes.
> Creating root device.
> Mounting root filesystem.
> kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> Setting up other filesystems.
> Setting up new root fs
> no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
> Switching to new root and running init.
> unmounting old /dev
> unmounting old /proc
> unmounting old /sys
> exec of init (/sbin/init) failed!!!: No such file or
> directory
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>
> I have tried both a real block device and a
> file-backed virtual block
> device for the
> root file-system, without success.
> I have also tried to change the configuration file
> in many ways. I have
> changed the file system from ro to be rw, and I have
> also tried to boot
> with and without initrd.
>
> I followed the instructions form the Xen user manual
> to create the root
> file-system (first copy the dirs that root, dev,
> var, etc, usr, bin,
> sbin, lib and then create the proc, sys, home, tmp
> dirs).
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=vm1disk bs=1k seek=2048k count=1
>
> mkfs -t ext3 vm1disk
>
> mount -o loop vm1disk /mnt
>
> cp -ax /{root,dev,var,etc,usr,bin,sbin,lib} /mnt
> mkdir /mnt/{proc,sys,home,tmp}
>
> umount /mnt
>
> I used the following config file for the domU:
>
> kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5xenU"
> ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5xenU.img"
> memory = 256
> disk = [ 'file:/root/vmrootfs,sda1,w' ]
> name = "ExampleDomain"
> vif = [ '' ]
> root = "/dev/sda1"
> extra = "4"
>
> The /etc/fstab file
> of the file system that the vm will use is:
> /dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
> none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
>
> And I have also tried with the following alternate
> versions of
> /etc/fstab:
> 1)
> /dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
>
> 2)
> /dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts gid=2,mode=620 0 0
>
> 3)
> /dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts gid=2,mode=620 0 0
>
>
> Note that I have succesfully managed to boot a vm
> using a file system
> image from tty-linux5.0. So, my assumption is that
> the problems is
> related to the file system image that I use
> for the Fedora install.
>
> Thanks in advance for you help,
>
>
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