[Xen-users] XCP 1.1beta - cannot boot from local DVD

["Joe Linoff" <jlinoff@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks:

I am trying to install XCP 1.1beta and a single VM on a computer with no
network connections. XCP 1.1 installed just fine but I am having trouble
getting the VM to boot properly from a CentOS 5.5 DVD. 

The first problem was that I could not observe what was happening. Todd
Deshane solved this by showing me how to disable PV VNC and use "xl
console <dom-id>" to connect. That worked perfectly.

The current problem is that during the boot process it tells me that it
does not have a driver for the CD/DVD-ROM but the server boots and
configure properly when I use the CentOS DVD directly instead of trying
to create a VM guest which seems to indicate that it has the proper
drivers.

How can I debug/fix this? 

My guess is that I made some sort of mistake when configuring the CD-ROM
but I am not experienced enough to figure it out. Note that the
DOM0_CD_NAME="SCSI 1:0:0:0" and the DOM0_CD_DEVICE is "1".

Here is the script that I am using for testing. It simply creates a
guest called test01.  

At lines 8-12 it makes the dom0 CD device not bootable. 

At lines 14-17 it adds the CD-ROM to the VM. I have also attached the
console output. 

I got the steps from this URL:
http://www.xen.org/files/XenCloud/guest.pdf (pg 24): "To install a
supported Linux VM from vendor media using the CLI".

What is really strange to me is that it looks like it is recognizing and
reading the DVD because I had several screens of information that
required answers before I got to this point.

% cat -n make-vm.sh
    1 #!/bin/bash
    2 
    3 set -x
    4 
    5 # Create the VM
    6 VM_UUID=$(xe vm-install template='CentOS 5 (64-bit)'
new-name-label="test01")
    7
    8 # Make the dom0 CD not bootable.
    9 DOM0_CD_UUID=$(xe vbd-list vm-uuid=$VM_UUID userdevice=0
params=uuid --minimal) 
   10 xe vbd-param-set uuid=$DOM0_CD_UUID bootable=false 
   11 DOM0_CD_NAME=$(xe cd-list | grep SCSI | sed -e 's/^.*SCSI/SCSI/') 
   12 DOM0_CD_DEVICE=$( echo "$DOM0_CD_NAME" | awk '{print $2;}' | awk
-F: '{print $1;}')
   13
   14 # Add the CD to domU and make it bootable.
   15 xe vm-cd-add vm=$VM_UUID cd-name="$DOM0_CD_NAME"
device=$DOM0_CD_DEVICE 
   16 DOMU_CD_UUID=$(xe vbd-list vm-uuid=$VM_UUID type=CD params=uuid
--minimal) 
   17 xe vbd-param-set uuid=$DOMU_CD_UUID bootable=true
   18
   19 # Disable VNC so that we can use xl console
   20 # URL:
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen_Cloud_Platform%3A_Access_to_VM_con
sole
   21 # Citation: Todd Deshane
   22 xe vm-param-set uuid=$VM_UUID other-config:disable_pv_vnc=true 
   23
   24 # Configuration stuff: use the cd-rom, 2 cpus, 2GB RAM, 20GB disk
space
   25 xe vm-param-set uuid=$VM_UUID
other-config:install-2repository=cdrom
   26 xe vm-param-set uuid=$VM_UUID VCPUs-max=2 VCPUs-at-startup=2
   27 xe vm-memory-limits-set uuid=$VM_UUID static-min=2147483648
4static-max=2147483648 dynamic-min=2147483648 dynamic-max=2147483648
   28 xe vm-param-set uuid=$VM_UUID other-config:disks='<provision><disk
device="0" size="21474836480" sr="" bootable="true" type="system"
/></provision>' 
   29 
   30 # Set the xenbr0 IP address
   31 NETW_UUID=$(xe network-list bridge=xenbr0 --minimal)
   32 xe vif-create vm-uuid=$VM_UUID network-uuid=$NETW_UUID device=0
   33 
   34 # Start the VM -- boot off of the CD
   35 xe vm-start uuid=$VM_UUID

% # Get the DOM id
% xe vm-list params=dom-id,name-label,uuid

% # Start the console
% xl console <dom-id>

Regards,

Joe

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