Re: [Xen-users] Domu has no disks

[Steve Allison <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/10/2011 01:02, Barry Kolts wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is my first post to the list and I am new to Xen, so please 
> excuse my ignorance.
> I have Xen 4.0 running on Debian Squeeze with Squeeze as dom0. I am 
> trying to install Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 as a guest. I am using the 
> install cd iso. I think I should be able to do this based on this 
> quote from http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenOverview. From the 
> 'Installing new Paravirtual (PV) guests' section, 'Ubuntu 10.04 
> ("Lucid Lynx") installer can be booted as a Xen PV guest and installed 
> easily that way. '.
> The problem is once the Ubuntu installer starts it cannot find the 
> cdrom. Also if I use the net-install method, the installer can't find 
> the virtual disk to install to. So my problem is not getting domu to 
> boot but not having any disks once it does.
> My domu configuration file is based on the xmexample1 configuration 
> that was packaged with Xen. Rather than posting the whole file here 
> are the changes I made:
> kernel = "/etc/xen/install_kernels/cd-installer/vmlinuz"
> ramdisk = "/etc/xen/install_kernels/cd-installer/initrd.gz"
> builder='linux'
> memory = 512
> name = "Lucid-server-install"
> disk = [ 
> 'file:/home/barry/iso/ubuntu-10.04.3-server-amd64.iso,xvdc:cdrom,r',
> 'tap:aio:/xen-vm-fs/lucid-vm-disk,xvda,w' ]
> root = "/dev/cdrom ro"
>
> The kernel and initrd.gz are copied of the cd iso. In the disk 
> statement I have tried hdc, hda, sda, sdc to no avail.
> I have Googled, searched this list, the debian list, Ubuntu 
> documentation and the Xen.org documentation and not found the answer. 
> Can anyone spot where I've gone wrong? Please ask for more information 
> or suggest how I can debug this problem. One more piece of 
> information, this machine does not have a virtualization process so 
> paravirtual is a must.
> Thanks in advance for any help
> Barry
>
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Try specifying the xvda device first...

disk = [
   'tap:aio:/xen-vm-fs/lucid-vm-disk,xvda,w',
   'file:/home/barry/iso/ubuntu-10.04.3-server-amd64.iso,xvdc:cdrom,r'
]



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