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Re: [Xen-users] XAPI on debian installation issue

To: Todd Deshane <todd.deshane@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] XAPI on debian installation issue
From: Jonathan Ludlam <Jonathan.Ludlam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:01:10 +0100
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I worked around this by renaming 20_linux_xen to 09_linux_xen, then running 
update-grub, to make sure that the xen entry was top of the list. An ugly 
quick-n-dirty thing, but it worked :-)

Jon

On 19 Jul 2011, at 05:02, Todd Deshane wrote:

> 2011/7/18 Jonathan Ludlam <Jonathan.Ludlam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> OK, there's a new blktap deb there (which you can tell by the date - at some 
>> point I'll sort things so that the version numbers aren't all 0.1 and the 
>> release numbers aren't all 1 :-)
>> 
> 
> The install works. I've cleaned up the wiki page a bit too.
> 
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XAPI_on_debian
> 
> I think I am running into a grub2 problem at the moment though. It
> won't seem to boot to the Xen hypervisor (I'm grub blind since I am
> doing this over a serial connection that doesn't show grub).
> 
> I'll try to work through the grub2 issue tomorrow, but any suggestions
> are welcome.
> 
> here is the /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen file that comes with debian unstable:
> 
> http://pastebin.com/KivyRSsM
> 
> Any ideas as to why it won't boot into the Xen hypervisor?
> 
> I've done this type of troubleshooting already:
> 
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenCommonProblems#head-26434581604cc8357d9762aaaf040e8d87b37752
> 
> It can't even insert the modules for xen-evtchn (no such device),
> which makes sense if (like I suspect) the Xen hypervisor is not
> actually there.
> 
> Xen booting messages don't show up in dmesg or /var/log/messages, so
> grub2 seems like the problem for sure.
> 
> Thanks,
> Todd
> 
>> Jon
>> 
>> On 18 Jul 2011, at 11:10, Jonathan Ludlam wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Sébastien,
>>> 
>>> Thanks for testing this out - as I wrote on the wiki page, I didn't really 
>>> expect any of it to work yet, so if anything actually did work, that's a 
>>> bonus! :-)
>>> 
>>> On 17 Jul 2011, at 20:33, Sébastien RICCIO wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I'm currently trying to install xapi on debian (unstable), following the
>>>> following wiki page:
>>>> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XAPI_on_debian
>>>> 
>>>> 1. Install squeeze 32-bits (it's not specified on the wiki, but I guess
>>>> it wont work with 64-bit as the xapi *.deb files are for 32).
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Yes, 32 bit only at the moment. We've not tried any of this stuff in 64 
>>> bit, so we're concentrating on that at the moment. I'd be very interested 
>>> in knowing what happens on 64 bit though, and it is something that we'll be 
>>> wanting to look into longer term.
>>> 
>>>>   note: you must leave an unused 1mb partition somewhere when
>>>>            creating your partitions or grub2 used in sid will complain
>>>>            during the dist-upgrade. This will result into an unbootable
>>>>            system. (at least it happened to me)
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Interesting, I didn't have this problem - when I upgraded I chose to throw 
>>> out my original grub.conf and use the new one, and it does seem to boot.
>>> 
>>>> 2. Edit sources.list to use unstable instead of squeeze
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> ..snip..
>>> 
>>>> box# dpkg -i *deb
>>>> 
>>>> ----8<----------
>>>> Selecting previously deselected package blktap.
>>>> (Reading database ... 37780 files and directories currently installed.)
>>>> Unpacking blktap (from blktap_0.1-1_i386.deb) ...
>>>> Selecting previously deselected package blktap-dkms.
>>>> Unpacking blktap-dkms (from blktap-dkms_0.1_all.deb) ...
>>>> Selecting previously deselected package fe.
>>>> Unpacking fe (from fe_0.1-1_i386.deb) ...
>>>> Selecting previously deselected package squeezed.
>>>> Unpacking squeezed (from squeezed_0.1-1_i386.deb) ...
>>>> Selecting previously deselected package v6d.
>>>> Unpacking v6d (from v6d_0.1-1_i386.deb) ...
>>>> Selecting previously deselected package xapi.
>>>> Unpacking xapi (from xapi_0.1-1_i386.deb) ...
>>>> Selecting previously deselected package xen-sm.
>>>> Unpacking xen-sm (from xen-sm_0.1-1_i386.deb) ...
>>>> Setting up blktap (0.1-1) ...
>>>> Setting up blktap-dkms (0.1) ...
>>>> dkms.conf: Error! No 'BUILT_MODULE_NAME' directive specified for record #0.
>>>> Error! Bad conf file.
>>>> File: /tmp/dkms.rTkg1a/dkms_binaries_only/dkms.conf
>>>> does not represent a valid dkms.conf file.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Unable to load DKMS tarball /usr/share/blktap-dkms/blktap-0.1.dkms.tar.gz.
>>>> Common causes include:
>>>> - You must be using DKMS 2.1.0.0 or later to support binaries only
>>>>  distribution specific archives.
>>>> - Corrupt distribution specific archive
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> dpkg: error processing blktap-dkms (--install):
>>>> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Right, a broken package. We've not got a nice way of making these things 
>>> yet - I've got some suggestions from Daniel Stodden on how to proceed, so 
>>> between us maybe we'll be able to make something that works. When I've got 
>>> something new to test I'll let you know.
>>> 
>>> Thanks again for helping out!
>>> 
>>> Jon
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Todd Deshane
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/deshantm
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