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Re: [Xen-users] Error: (22, 'Invalid argument')

It was me who posted the earlier problem and resolution.
When I said  "there was an older installation of the binary tools"
what I meant is the following.  There was a rpm version of Xen 3.0.3
installed on the OS by virtue of its being a redhat clone.  I only
made everything work for xen 3.1 when I totally deleted all
the xen 3.03 utilities off of the system, and the kernel too, and
then reinstalled the xen 3.1 kernel and utilities from the xensource
3.1 tarball.

Steve


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On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Bryan Brown wrote:

Hi Ashutosh,

I've been suffering the same problems for the last week.  After building 
everything from source it is now working like a charm.
here are a few sources that helped me out:
http://www.nabble.com/Compiling-Xen-3.1.0-src-on-Debian-AMD64-Machine-t4271223.html
 - list of packages add gettext to that list
http://wiki.kartbuilding.net/index.php/Xen_Source_and_Compiling - another list 
of packages to use as refernce
http://www.howtoforge.com/xen_3.0_ubuntu_dapper_drake - dated but a few little 
nuggets (depmod and mkinitramfs)

hopefully that will help you on your path to xen.  Make sure if you have any 
Ubuntu packages install you purge them, as they may end up
causing problems if left in place.

Bryan

On Wednesday 19 September 2007, ashutosh mehra wrote:
Hi,

I have set up an ubuntu edgy guest domain on a fiesty host domain. The
installation was successful but on running xm create -c baseimage, I get the
following error message:
Error: (22, 'Invalid argument')

The problem seems very similar to the one here:
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2007-07/msg00361.html but
I'm not able to figure out what the post means by "There was an old binary
installation of the tools"

The log contents (xm log):
[2007-09-20 15:43:33 xend.XendDomainInfo 29373] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:190)
XendDomainInfo.create(['vm', ['name', 'xen1.example.com'], ['memory',
'128'], ['on_poweroff', 'destroy'], ['on_reboot', 'restart'], ['on_crash',
'restart'], ['vcpus', 1], ['image', ['linux', ['kernel', '/boot/xen-3.gz'],
['ramdisk', '/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-xen'], ['root', '/dev/sda1 ro']]],
['device', ['vbd', ['uname',
'file:/home/xen/domains/xen1.example.com/disk.img'], ['dev', 'sda1'],
['mode', 'w']]], ['device', ['vbd', ['uname',
'file:/home/xen/domains/xen1.example.com/swap.img'], ['dev', 'sda2'],
['mode', 'w']]], ['device', ['vif', ['ip', '192.168.12.150']]]])
[2007-09-20 15:43:33 xend.XendDomainInfo 29373] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:296)
parseConfig: config is ['vm', ['name', 'xen1.example.com'], ['memory',
'128'], ['on_poweroff', 'destroy'], ['on_reboot', 'restart'], ['on_crash',
'restart'], ['vcpus', 1], ['image', ['linux', ['kernel', '/boot/xen-3.gz'],
['ramdisk', '/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-xen'], ['root', '/dev/sda1 ro']]],
['device', ['vbd', ['uname',
'file:/home/xen/domains/xen1.example.com/disk.img'], ['dev', 'sda1'],
['mode', 'w']]], ['device', ['vbd', ['uname',
'file:/home/xen/domains/xen1.example.com/swap.img'], ['dev', 'sda2'],
['mode', 'w']]], ['device', ['vif', ['ip', '192.168.12.150']]]]
[2007-09-20 15:43:33 xend.XendDomainInfo 29373] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:395)
parseConfig: result is {'shadow_memory': None, 'uuid': None, 'on_crash':
'restart', 'on_reboot': 'restart', 'localtime': None, 'image': ['linux',
['kernel', '/boot/xen-3.gz'], ['ramdisk', '/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-xen'],
['root', '/dev/sda1 ro']], 'on_poweroff': 'destroy', 'bootloader_args':
None, 'cpus': None, 'name': 'xen1.example.com', 'backend': [], 'vcpus': 1,
'cpu_weight': None, 'features': None, 'vcpu_avail': None, 'memory': 128,
'device': [('vbd', ['vbd', ['uname',
'file:/home/xen/domains/xen1.example.com/disk.img'], ['dev', 'sda1'],
['mode', 'w']]), ('vbd', ['vbd', ['uname',
'file:/home/xen/domains/xen1.example.com/swap.img'], ['dev', 'sda2'],
['mode', 'w']]), ('vif', ['vif', ['ip', '192.168.12.150']])], 'bootloader':
None, 'cpu': None, 'maxmem': None}
[2007-09-20 15:43:33 xend.XendDomainInfo 29373] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1262)
XendDomainInfo.construct: None
[2007-09-20 15:43:33 xend.XendDomainInfo 29373] ERROR (__init__:1021) Domain
construction failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line
194, in create
    vm.construct()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line
1266, in construct
    handle = uuid.fromString(self.info['uuid']))
Error: (22, 'Invalid argument')
[2007-09-20 15:43:33 xend.XendDomainInfo 29373] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1458)
XendDomainInfo.destroy: domid=None
[2007-09-20 15:43:33 xend 29373] ERROR (__init__:1021) (22, 'Invalid
argument')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/util/xmlrpclib2.py", line 162,
in _marshaled_dispatch
    response = self._dispatch(method, params)
  File "SimpleXMLRPCServer.py", line 415, in _dispatch
    return func(*params)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/xend/server/XMLRPCServer.py",
line 64, in domain_create
    info = XendDomain.instance().domain_create(config)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomain.py", line 228,
in domain_create
    dominfo = XendDomainInfo.create(config)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line
194, in create
    vm.construct()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line
1266, in construct
    handle = uuid.fromString(self.info['uuid']))
Error: (22, 'Invalid argument')
[2007-09-20 15:43:54 xend.XendDomainInfo 29373] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:190)
XendDomainInfo.create(['vm', ['name', 'xen1.example.com'], ['memory',
'128'], ['on_poweroff', 'destroy'], ['on_reboot', 'restart'], ['on_crash',
'restart'], ['vcpus', 1], ['image', ['linux', ['kernel', '/boot/xen-3.gz'],
['ramdisk', '/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-xen'], ['root', '/dev/sda1 ro']]],
['device', ['vbd', ['uname',
'file:/home/xen/domains/xen1.example.com/disk.img'], ['dev', 'sda1'],
['mode', 'w']]], ['device', ['vbd', ['uname',
'file:/home/xen/domains/xen1.example.com/swap.img'], ['dev', 'sda2'],
['mode', 'w']]], ['device', ['vif', ['ip', '192.168.12.150']]]])
[2007-09-20 15:43:54 xend.XendDomainInfo 29373] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:296)
parseConfig: config is ['vm', ['name', 'xen1.example.com'], ['memory',
'128'], ['on_poweroff', 'destroy'], ['on_reboot', 'restart'], ['on_crash',
'restart'], ['vcpus', 1], ['image', ['linux', ['kernel', '/boot/xen-3.gz'],
['ramdisk', '/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-xen'], ['root', '/dev/sda1 ro']]],
['device', ['vbd', ['uname',
'file:/home/xen/domains/xen1.example.com/disk.img'], ['dev', 'sda1'],
['mode', 'w']]], ['device', ['vbd', ['uname',
'file:/home/xen/domains/xen1.example.com/swap.img'], ['dev', 'sda2'],
['mode', 'w']]], ['device', ['vif', ['ip', '192.168.12.150']]]]
[2007-09-20 15:43:54 xend.XendDomainInfo 29373] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:395)
parseConfig: result is {'shadow_memory': None, 'uuid': None, 'on_crash':
'restart', 'on_reboot': 'restart', 'localtime': None, 'image': ['linux',
['kernel', '/boot/xen-3.gz'], ['ramdisk', '/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-xen'],
['root', '/dev/sda1 ro']], 'on_poweroff': 'destroy', 'bootloader_args':
None, 'cpus': None, 'name': 'xen1.example.com', 'backend': [], 'vcpus': 1,
'cpu_weight': None, 'features': None, 'vcpu_avail': None, 'memory': 128,
'device': [('vbd', ['vbd', ['uname',
'file:/home/xen/domains/xen1.example.com/disk.img'], ['dev', 'sda1'],
['mode', 'w']]), ('vbd', ['vbd', ['uname',
'file:/home/xen/domains/xen1.example.com/swap.img'], ['dev', 'sda2'],
['mode', 'w']]), ('vif', ['vif', ['ip', '192.168.12.150']])], 'bootloader':
None, 'cpu': None, 'maxmem': None}
[2007-09-20 15:43:54 xend.XendDomainInfo 29373] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1262)
XendDomainInfo.construct: None
[2007-09-20 15:43:54 xend.XendDomainInfo 29373] ERROR (__init__:1021) Domain
construction failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line
194, in create
    vm.construct()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line
1266, in construct
    handle = uuid.fromString(self.info['uuid']))
Error: (22, 'Invalid argument')
[2007-09-20 15:43:54 xend.XendDomainInfo 29373] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1458)
XendDomainInfo.destroy: domid=None
[2007-09-20 15:43:54 xend 29373] ERROR (__init__:1021) (22, 'Invalid
argument')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/util/xmlrpclib2.py", line 162,
in _marshaled_dispatch
    response = self._dispatch(method, params)
  File "SimpleXMLRPCServer.py", line 415, in _dispatch
    return func(*params)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/xend/server/XMLRPCServer.py",
line 64, in domain_create
    info = XendDomain.instance().domain_create(config)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomain.py", line 228,
in domain_create
    dominfo = XendDomainInfo.create(config)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line
194, in create
    vm.construct()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line
1266, in construct
    handle = uuid.fromString(self.info['uuid']))
Error: (22, 'Invalid argument')

***************************************************************************************************************

Contents of baseimage (config file for guest domain):

#  -*- mode: python; -*-
kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-xen"
ramdisk = "/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-xen"
memory = 128
name = "baseimage"
vif = ['bridge=xenbr0']
disk =
['file:/xen-images/guest_base.img,hda1,w','file:/xen-images/guest_base-
swap.img,hda2,w']
ip = "192.168.0.101"
netmask = "255.255.255.0"
gateway = "192.168.0.1"
hostname = "baseimage"
root = "/dev/hda1 ro"
extra = "4"

**************************************************************************************************************

The IP address of the guest domain is not same as that of host domain. Host
domain network config is:
IP address: 192.168.12.18
netmask: 255.255.0.0
gateway: 192.168.3.254

If anyone has any suggestions regarding this issue...plz share them with us.
Thanks


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