Re: [Xen-users] booting an ISO inside Xen (full virt)

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please don't cry just yet! ;-)

Have you tried connecting to the VNC console for that domain?  It should be on 
port 5900 + domid or you could just enable the SDL display...

Did it give you any output?

Cheers,
Mark

On Monday 12 March 2007 15:41, José Alberto Suárez López wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm using Dom0 gentoo with xen 3.0.4 and xenman. I have several DomU
> working and it is really nice :) so all my DomUs are installed with disk
> images. Now i want to use an ISO to boot and install a linux system (or
> win).
>
> When i try to boot the DomU i dont have nothing, nothing relevant (for me)
> in logs and i can connect to the console. The state of the DomU is unknow.
> Any help please? i'm going crazy.
>
> xm list output:
>
> peggy xen # xm list
> Name                                      ID   Mem VCPUs      State  
> Time(s) Domain-0                                   0  1195     2     r-----
>   8671.1 centos                                    44   128     1    
> -b----    106.8 general_100.28                            40   256     1   
>  -b----     12.9 iso                                       45   256     1  
>   ------      0.0
>
> Yes, the ISo works, i tryed with different distros (ubuntu, gentoo, etc)
> and Yes i can mount the ISO in a loop device w/o problems.
>
> Any clue is welcome, i will cry soon :(
>
> I'm usign this cfg:
>
> import os, re
> arch = os.uname()[4]
> if re.search('64', arch):
>     arch_libdir = 'lib64'
> else:
>     arch_libdir = 'lib'
>
> name='iso'
>
> kernel='/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader'
> builder='hvm'
>
>
> memory=256
> shadow_memory=10
> #vcpus=1»···# number of vcpu's
> #cpus = "0"»# all vcpus run on CPU0
>
> pae=0
> acpi=0
> apic=0
>
> vif=['type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr0']
> disk=['file:/var/xen/iso.disk.xm,hda,w',
> 'file:/var/xen/stresslinux-0.3.1.iso,hdc:cdrom,r']
>
> device_model = '/usr/' + arch_libdir + '/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
>
> # Boots from CDROM.·
> # Change to 'c' after windows installation in order to boot from disk.
> boot='d'
> #boot='c'·
>
> sdl=0
> vnc=1
> vncunused=0
> stdvga=0
> extra=''
> on_reboot='restart'
> on_shutdown='rename-restart'
> ramdisk=''
> image_name='Linux_CD_Install'
> on_crash='destroy'
> image_conf='/var/log/xenman/image_store/Linux_CD_Install/Linux_CD_Install_i
>so_image.conf' bootloader=''
> vcpus=1
> root=''
>
>
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