I was using the Gentoo version which is 3.0.2. I did realize it looks
like XWindows is required for installing Windows, so I am installing
that now. I didn't realize that, I was trying to run it from a console.
You could probably run without X if you exported the Windows guest's
display over VNC.
It still seems odd it would reboot the server as opposed to failing with
an error, however.
Indeed. That's definitely a bug, no question about it. However, it's quite
possibly been fixed in a later Xen release. The version of Xen you're
running is fairly old and there have been fixes to the HVM code since then.
I really would recommend you download 3.0.4 and try that in place of the
stock Gentoo version - you'd have a better chance of it working.
I was planning on 32 bit Windows. I had read you could still run 32bit
versions of DomU on a 64bit Dom0. I'd like to keep Dom0 at 64bit for
options with memory for the future.
That's fine. You can run 32-bit, or 32-bit with PAE guests on a 64-bit
Xen/dom0.
Cheers,
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: M.A. Williamson [mailto:maw48@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of M.A.
Williamson
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 6:35 PM
To: Kriz, Mike
Cc: Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Windows 2003 DomU reboots sentire erver on
create
I'm trying to get a Windows 2003 domu running, and I'm having
difficulties. Any help would be much appreciated! About the server:
It's an IBM x series running AMD64, x64 install of Gentoo Linux.
I have it up and running with a pretty standard Xen 3.0 install, and
the
Linux domUs work perfectly.
When I try to start Windows 2003, the whole server completely reboots.
I am following the Xen Windows Howto PDF.
This is definitely some kind of bug in your version of Xen.
What point release are you installing? i.e. 3.0.[01234] or -unstable?
I'd
recommend upgrading to the latest release (which is 3.0.4) to test
whether
your problem still occurs.
Also, you're presumably installing 64-bit Win 2k3? If you were to try a
32-bit install I have a hunch it'd work OK. I realise that probably
doesn't
solve your problem though... Last I remember, 64-bit support for Windows
was a bit less mature than 32-bit support, so presumably there may still
be
some kinks.
We may want to take this to the xen-devel list as a bug, if we can't
work
out some other solution. Good luck in the meantime!
Cheers,
Mark
Here's a basic config I am using that is based on the howto, other then
that I am using a file as the filesystem rather then an LVM:
kernel = '/usr/lib64/xen/boot/hvmloader'
builder='hvm'
memory = 512
name = 'winxendefault'
vif = [ ' ' ]
disk = [ 'file:/xen_fs/win2k3_1,hda,w' ]
cdrom='/xen_images/win2k3_cd.iso'
boot='d'
sdl=1
vnc=0
vncviewer=0
device_model = '/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
Here is some debug output from the crash in xend.log:
[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:178)
XendDomainInfo.create(['vm', ['name', 'winxendefault'], ['memory',
512],
['vcpus', 1], ['
image', ['hvm', ['kernel', '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16.28-xenU'],
['device_model', '/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm'], ['vcpus', 1], ['cdrom',
'/xen_images/win2k3_cd.iso
'], ['boot', 'd'], ['sdl', 1], ['xauthority', '/root/.Xauthority']]],
['device', ['vbd', ['uname', 'file:/xen_fs/win2k3_1'], ['dev', 'hda'],
['mode', 'w']]],
['device', ['vif', ['bridge', 'xenbr0'], ['mac', '00:16:3e:00:00:94'],
['type', 'ioemu']]]])
[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:284)
parseConfig: config is ['vm', ['name', 'winxendefault'], ['memory',
512], ['vcpus', 1], [
'image', ['hvm', ['kernel', '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16.28-xenU'],
['device_model', '/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm'], ['vcpus', 1], ['cdrom',
'/xen_images/win2k3_cd.is
o'], ['boot', 'd'], ['sdl', 1], ['xauthority', '/root/.Xauthority']]],
['device', ['vbd', ['uname', 'file:/xen_fs/win2k3_1'], ['dev', 'hda'],
['mode', 'w']]],
['device', ['vif', ['bridge', 'xenbr0'], ['mac', '00:16:3e:00:00:94'],
['type', 'ioemu']]]]
[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:380)
parseConfig: result is {'ssidref': None, 'uuid': None, 'on_crash':
None,
'on_reboot': Non
e, 'image': ['hvm', ['kernel', '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16.28-xenU'],
['device_model', '/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm'], ['vcpus', 1], ['cdrom',
'/xen_images/win2k3_cd
.iso'], ['boot', 'd'], ['sdl', 1], ['xauthority',
'/root/.Xauthority']],
'on_poweroff': None, 'cpus': None, 'name': 'winxendefault', 'backend':
[], 'vcpus': 1
, 'cpu_weight': None, 'vcpu_avail': None, 'memory': 512, 'device':
[('vbd', ['vbd', ['uname', 'file:/xen_fs/win2k3_1'], ['dev', 'hda'],
['mode', 'w']]), ('vif
', ['vif', ['bridge', 'xenbr0'], ['mac', '00:16:3e:00:00:94'], ['type',
'ioemu']])], 'bootloader': None, 'cpu': None, 'maxmem': None}
[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1164)
XendDomainInfo.construct: None 0
[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1196)
XendDomainInfo.initDomain: 2 1.0
[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend] DEBUG (image:266) args: cdrom, val:
/xen_images/win2k3_cd.iso
[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend] DEBUG (image:266) args: boot, val: d
[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend] DEBUG (image:266) args: fda, val: None
[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend] DEBUG (image:266) args: fdb, val: None
[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend] DEBUG (image:266) args: nic-ne2000, val:
None
[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend] DEBUG (image:266) args: enable-audio, val:
None
[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend] DEBUG (image:266) args: localtime, val: None
[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend] DEBUG (image:266) args: serial, val: None
[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend] DEBUG (image:266) args: std-vga, val: None
[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend] DEBUG (image:266) args: isa, val: None
[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend] DEBUG (image:266) args: vcpus, val: 1
[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend] DEBUG (balloon:130) Balloon: free 7; need
513.
[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend] DEBUG (balloon:139) Balloon: setting dom0
target to 4017.
[2006-12-27 10:53:05 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:945)
Setting memory target of domain Domain-0 (0) to 4017 MiB.
[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend] DEBUG (balloon:126) Balloon: free 513; need
513; done.
[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend] INFO (image:135) buildDomain os=hvm dom=2
vcpus=1
[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend] DEBUG (image:224) dom = 2
[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend] DEBUG (image:225) image =
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16.28-xenU
[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend] DEBUG (image:226) store_evtchn = 1
[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend] DEBUG (image:227) memsize = 512
[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend] DEBUG (image:228) vcpus = 1
[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend] DEBUG (image:229) pae = 0
[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend] DEBUG (image:230) acpi = 0
[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend] DEBUG (image:231) apic = 0
[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend] DEBUG (image:396) hvm shutdown watch
registered
[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend.XendDomainInfo] ERROR (XendDomainInfo:190)
Domain construction failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py",
line 183, in create
vm.initDomain()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py",
line 1225, in initDomain
channel_details = self.image.createImage()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/image.py", line
118,
in createImage
return self.createDomain()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/image.py", line
137,
in createDomain
result = self.buildDomain()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/image.py", line
242,
in buildDomain
apic = self.apic)
error: (0, 'Error')
[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1327)
XendDomainInfo.destroy: domid=2
[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend.XendDomainInfo] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1335)
XendDomainInfo.destroyDomain(2)
[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend] DEBUG (image:408) hvm shutdown watch
unregistered
[2006-12-27 10:53:06 xend] ERROR (xmlrpclib2:98) (0, 'Error')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/util/xmlrpclib2.py",
line
80, in _marshaled_dispatch
response = self._dispatch(method, params)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py", line 406, in
_dispatch
return func(*params)
File
"/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/server/XMLRPCServer.py",
line 63, in domain_create
info = XendDomain.instance().domain_create(config)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomain.py",
line
227, in domain_create
dominfo = XendDomainInfo.create(config)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py",
line 183, in create
vm.initDomain()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py",
line 1225, in initDomain
channel_details = self.image.createImage()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/image.py", line
118,
in createImage
return self.createDomain()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/image.py", line
137,
in createDomain
result = self.buildDomain()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/image.py", line
242,
in buildDomain
apic = self.apic)
error: (0, 'Error')
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