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[Xen-users] RE: XEN guest VM config issue for windows 2003 installation

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Subject: [Xen-users] RE: XEN guest VM config issue for windows 2003 installation
From: "Madhu Venugopal (vmadhu)" <vmadhu@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:56:55 -0700
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Thread-topic: XEN guest VM config issue for windows 2003 installation
A machine reboot fixed this issue !!!
Not sure what was wrong before...

-Madhu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Madhu Venugopal (vmadhu)
> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 10:37 AM
> To: Xen User-List
> Cc: 'Fajar A. Nugraha'
> Subject: XEN guest VM config issue for windows 2003 installation
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Am trying to install windows 2003 server as a guest VM over
> Xen 3.4.1 (installed on Fedora 11). When I executed "xm create",
> It fails with the error message :
> 
> "Error: Domain 'win2k' does not exist."
> 
> Upon digging deeper, I could find that Qemu-dm fails for the
> Following reason :
> 
> <qemu-dm-logs>
> 
>       domid: 48
>       qemu: the number of cpus is 4
>       -append only allowed with -kernel option
> 
> <qemu-dm-logs>
> 
> That Configuration that I Fed to XM Create :
> 
> <config>
> 
>       kernel='/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader'
>       builder='hvm'
>       memory='3092'
>       device_model='/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
>       apic=1
>       acpi=1
> 
>       root='/dev/cciss/c0d0p2'
>       disk = [
> 'file:/home/xen/domains/win2003/win2003.img,ioemu:hda,w',
> 'file:/home/xen/domains/win2003/win-install-cd1.iso,hdb:cdrom,r']
> 
>       # Hostname
>       name = 'win2k'
>       cpus = "0-4"
>       vcpus=4
> 
> <config>
> 
> Relevant Xend failure logs attached.
> 
> Can someone help spot the error in the configuration ?
> Have a few specific questions :
> 
> 1. Is the "root" configuration option important ? I see different
> errors including
>    it and excluding the same.
> 2. I suspect the "disk" configuration as well. I tried various
> different options,
>    But all of them failed.
> 
> Not sure if it is anything to do with the CCISS drivers again.
> 
> Can someone pls help ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Madhu
> 
> <xend-logs>
> 
>       [2009-08-31 00:10:18 4412] DEBUG (DevController:97)
> DevController: writing {'domain': 'win2k', 'frontend':
> '/local/domain/48/device/vbd/832', 'uuid': '4886d8b6-80e2-c3b7-68ae-
> d6845a0f8ea0', 'bootable': '0', 'dev': 'hdb', 'state': '1', 'params':
> '/home/xen/domains/win2003/win-install-cd1.iso', 'mode': 'r',
'online':
> '1', 'frontend-id': '48', 'type': 'file'} to
> /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/48/832.
> 
> [2009-08-31 00:10:18 4412] INFO (image:394) spawning device models:
> /usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm ['/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm', '-d', '48', '-
> domain-name', 'win2k', '-videoram', '4', '-sdl', '-vcpus', '4', '-
> append', 'root=/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 ', '-boot', 'd', '-acpi', '-net',
> 'none', '-M', 'xenfv']
> 
> [2009-08-31 00:10:18 4412] INFO (image:443) device model pid: 12682
> [2009-08-31 00:10:18 4412] INFO (image:531) waiting for sentinel_fifo
> [2009-08-31 00:10:18 4412] WARNING (image:493) domain win2k: device
> model failure: pid 12682: exited with nonzero status 1; see
> /var/log/xen/qemu-dm-win2k.log
> 
> [2009-08-31 00:10:18 4412] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:3052) Storing VM
> details: {'on_xend_stop': 'ignore', 'shadow_memory': '29', 'uuid':
> '1afc521c-aee0-5261-cb14-260174fd0162', 'on_reboot': 'restart',
> 'start_time': '1251702618.68', 'on_poweroff': 'destroy',
> 'bootloader_args': '', 'on_xend_start': 'ignore', 'on_crash':
> 'restart', 'xend/restart_count': '0', 'vcpus': '4', 'vcpu_avail':
'15',
> 'bootloader': '', 'image': "(hvm (kernel ) (args
> 'root=/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 ') (timer_mode 1) (videoram 4) (vpt_align 1)
> (nographic 0) (hpet 0) (rtc_timeoffset 0) (loader
> /usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader) (pci ()) (pci_msitranslate 1)
> (guest_os_type default) (apic 1) (sdl 1) (xen_platform_pci 1) (hap 1)
> (monitor 0) (device_model /usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm) (boot d)
> (pci_power_mgmt 0) (display :1.0) (pae 1) (stdvga 0) (usb 0)
> (xauthority /root/.Xauthority) (isa 0) (viridian 0) (acpi 1)
(vncunused
> 1) (localtime 0) (notes (SUSPEND_CANCEL 1)))", 'name': 'win2k'}
> [2009-08-31 00:10:18 4412] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1622) Storing domain
> details: {'console/port': '6', 'cpu/3/availability': 'online', 'name':
> 'win2k', 'console/limit': '1048576', 'store/port': '5',
> 'cpu/2/availability': 'online', 'vm': '/vm/1afc521c-aee0-5261-cb14-
> 260174fd0162', 'domid': '48', 'image/suspend-cancel': '1',
> 'cpu/0/availability': 'online', 'memory/target': '3166208',
> 'control/platform-feature-multiprocessor-suspend': '1', 'store/ring-
> ref': '1044476', 'cpu/1/availability': 'online', 'console/type':
> 'ioemu'}
> [2009-08-31 00:10:18 4412] WARNING (XendDomainInfo:1878) Domain has
> crashed: name=win2k id=48.
> 
> <xend-logs>


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