On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 09:39:51PM -0700, Boris Derzhavets wrote:
> You can run Ubuntu Lucid PV guest at 3.4.2, but not via "pygrub"
> Gitco.de/repo doesn't contain required 4.0 src.rpm . It's Gunter's policy i
> guess.
> When he will make 4.0.1 he would probably provide it.
> I would remove CentOS 5.4 as Dom0 base and build system on F13 (F12)
> due to xen-4.0.0.-0.7.f12.src.rpm available at xensource.
>
Or then use CentOS 5.5 as dom0 and apply the el5 pygrub grub2 patch from:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577511
-- Pasi
> wget http://pasik.reaktio.net/fedora/xen-4.0.0-0.7.fc12.src.rpm
>
> Boris.
>
>
> --- On Thu, 5/27/10, Donny Brooks <dbrooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Donny Brooks <dbrooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Install ubunto domU
> To: "xen-users" <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thursday, May 27, 2010, 3:21 PM
>
> I read this and I gather I need to be running Xen 4.0 in order to run
> Ubuntu 10.04 as a pv domu... is that
> correct? I am currently at 3.4.2 on a centos 5.4 dom0 but need to run some
> ubuntu domu's very badly. Please
> advise!
>
> --
>
> Donny B.
>
> On Monday, May 17, 2010 10:39 PM CDT, Boris Derzhavets
> <[1]bderzhavets@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > I tried to follow your steps (installing Lucid x86_64 PV domU on a
> > CentOS 54 x86_64 dom0, running xen 3.4.2 from gitco) ... but was not
> > successful. Something is still escaping me.
> >
> > Yes , you missing David's patch. Personally , i could back port it only
> to Xen 4.0,
> > even Xen 3.4.3 was not enough. Some other CSs from 4.0 are required for
> consistency and you don't know
> which ones.
> >
> > You are at 3.4.2 !
> >
> > I believe gitco did Xen 4.0 rpms. Gitgo's 4.0 src.rpm has to patched per
> David and rpms rebuilt. That 's
> in case you want "pygrub" to be bootloader for DomU . It's comfortable, but
> not required.
> >
> > Boris.
> >
> > --- On Mon, 5/17/10, David Markey <[2]admin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > From: David Markey <[3]admin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Install ubunto domU
> > To: "Nuno L. Ferreira" <[4]nunolf@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "Boris Derzhavets" <[5]bderzhavets@xxxxxxxxx>, "xen-users"
> <[6]xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Monday, May 17, 2010, 6:54 PM
> >
> > You need
> [7]http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-04/msg00748.html
> >
> >
> > On 17 May 2010 23:24, Nuno L. Ferreira <[8]nunolf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Dear *, Boris
> >
> >
> >
> > I tried to follow your steps (installing Lucid x86_64 PV domU on a CentOS
> 54 x86_64 dom0, running xen
> 3.4.2 from gitco) ... but was not successful. Something is still escaping
> me.
> >
> > Installation went just fine till the end after a "xm create -c lucid.xen"
> (see below).
> >
> > After installation (without any modifications to what was installed) I
> edited the xen config file
> (test.xen, see below) to boot with pygrub instead. But I get the following
> error:
> >
> > Error: Boot loader didn't return any data!
> >
> >
> >
> > I checked that the new domU does not have /usr/bin/pygrub, and this
> explains the error.
> >
> > So Boris, how did you boot your ubunto based domU after a netboot
> installation?
> >
> > I did not tried yet the debootstrap method also suggested ... first I
> want to know what I'm doing wrong
> here.
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm a bit lost on setting up an ubunto domU, first time getting outside
> RedHat like OSes. So if there are
> some good working links to blogs/tutorials on how to install ubunto domU's
> on RedHat like dom0's I'll
> appreciate.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > N.
> >
> >
> >
> > P.S. Steps taken :
> >
> >
> >
> > 1 - lvcreate -n domu.ubunto.lucid -L 4G vg1
> >
> > 2 - mkfs.ext3 /dev/vg1/domu.ubunto.lucid
> >
> > 3 - wget
>
> [9]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/xen/vmlinuz
> >
> >
> > 4 - wget
>
> [10]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/xen/initrd.gz
> >
> >
> > 5 - cat lucid.xen
> >
> > name = "lucid"
> >
> > memory = 1024
> >
> > disk = ['phy:/dev/vg1/domu.ubunto.lucid,xvda,w' ]
> >
> > vif = [ 'bridge=eth0' ]
> >
> > kernel = "/mnt/dom0/data/domu.setup/ubunto/lucid/vmlinuz"
> >
> > ramdisk = "/mnt/dom0/data/domu.setup/ubunto/lucid/initrd.gz"
> >
> > vcpus = 1
> >
> > on_reboot = 'destroy'
> >
> > on_crash = 'destroy'
> >
> >
> >
> > 6 - xm create -c lucid.xen
> >
> > ... installation goes just fine ...
> >
> > 7 - cat test.xen
> >
> > name = "test"
> >
> > memory = 512
> >
> > maxmem = 1024
> >
> > bootloader = '/usr/bin/pygrub'
> >
> > disk = ['phy:/dev/vg1/domu.spyder.root,xvda,w' ]
> >
> > vif = [ 'bridge=eth0' ]
> >
> > vcpus = 1
> >
> > on_poweroff = 'destroy'
> >
> > on_reboot = 'restart'
> >
> > on_crash = 'restart'
> >
> >
> >
> > 8 - xm create -c test.xen
> >
> > Using config file "./test.xen".
> >
> > Error: Boot loader didn't return any data!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Boris Derzhavets wrote:
> >
> >
> > I was able to start installer :
> >
> >
> >
> > root@ServerLnx:/home/boris/ubuntu# wget
>
> [11]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/xen/vmlinuz
> >
> >
> > --2010-05-13 12:36:14--
>
> [12]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/xen/vmlinuz
> >
> >
> > Resolving archive.ubuntu.com... 91.189.92.167, 91.189.88.30,
> 91.189.88.31, ...
> >
> > Connecting to archive.ubuntu.com|91.189.92.167|:80... connected.
> >
> > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> >
> > Length: 4037888 (3.9M) [text/plain]
> >
> > Saving to: `vmlinuz'
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 100%[========================================================================>]
> 4,037,888 101K/s in
> 27s
> >
> > 2010-05-13 12:36:41 (144 KB/s) - `vmlinuz' saved [4037888/4037888]
> >
> >
> >
> > root@ServerLnx:/home/boris/ubuntu# wget
>
> [13]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/xen/initrd.gz
> >
> >
> > --2010-05-13 12:37:02--
>
> [14]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/xen/initrd.gz
> >
> >
> > Resolving archive.ubuntu.com... 91.189.92.166, 91.189.92.167,
> 91.189.88.30, ...
> >
> > Connecting to archive.ubuntu.com|91.189.92.166|:80... connected.
> >
> > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> >
> > Length: 9678415 (9.2M) [application/x-gzip]
> >
> > Saving to: `initrd.gz'
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 100%[========================================================================>]
> 9,678,415 200K/s in
> 60s
> >
> > 2010-05-13 12:38:03 (156 KB/s) - `initrd.gz' saved [9678415/9678415]
> >
> >
> >
> > root@ServerLnx:/home/boris/ubuntu# cat ubuntu.cfg
> >
> > name="U10PV"
> >
> > memory=2048
> >
> > disk = ['phy:/dev/sdb5,xvda,w' ]
> >
> > vif = [ 'bridge=eth0' ]
> >
> > # vfb = [ 'type=vnc,vncunused=1']
> >
> > kernel = "/home/boris/ubuntu/vmlinuz"
> >
> > ramdisk = "/home/boris/ubuntu/initrd.gz"
> >
> > vcpus=2
> >
> > on_reboot = 'restart'
> >
> > on_crash = 'restart'
> >
> >
> >
> > # xm create -c ubuntu.cfg
> >
> >
> >
> > and see several obvious disadvantages (vs HVM convertion) :
> >
> >
> >
> > 1. VFB doesn't work
> >
> > 2. After selecting local mirror "Installing base system" is already
> running for 15 min
> >
> > at 2MB/sec ADSL connection.
> >
> >
> >
> > Boris.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> 9.
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> 10.
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