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Re: [Xen-users] Cannot start PV guests

To: Andreas Sommer <AndiDog@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Cannot start PV guests
From: "Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 00:11:20 +0700
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On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Andreas Sommer<AndiDog@xxxxxx> wrote:

> [    0.110575] console [tty0] enabled

This one is weird. You should have two consoles, one of them is hvc0


> [   10.807995] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.14.0-ioctl (2008-04-23) initialised:
> dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> After this line, no more output appears and the domain stays in blocked
> ('b') state.


> extra = "video=xenfb xencons=tty1"
> vfb = ['type=vnc,vncdisplay=10']

Try this :
- remove (or mark) those two lines
- setup domU's /etc/inittab to spawn login prompt on hvc0

In my last testing, 2.6.30 somehow won't work (similar simptom as
yours) if I enable Xen frame buffer. If I disable it (comment out vfb
line) it works fine on Xen serial console, so perhaps it the same
case.


> I have successfully tested that domain (Debian lenny installed with
> debootstrap) on another machine that runs the 2.6.18.8-xen kernel which
> ships with Xen. But on this notebook, only Xen-unstable with 2.6.30-rc6
> works, and I can't start PV domains.

If you know that 2.6.18 kernel works, why not use that for domU
kernel? dom0 and domU kernel does not have to be the same version. It
doesn't even have to be the same OS.

-- 
Fajar

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