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Re: [Xen-devel] problem creating a new domain

add the parameter (ip "off") in your domain configuration file 
it will add the parameter ip=off on the kernel boot line and so everything
will be ok

mat
On October 19, 11:34 pm Sanjay Kumar <ksanjay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> I switched to Xen2.0 with linux 2.4.27 kernel for dom0
>
> now I create the virtual disk in the same way as I described below.
>
> now when I try to boot another domain i see problems with DHCP. below are
> the logs
>
> Using config file "/etc/xen/dom1".
> Started domain ExampleDomain, console on port 9609
> ************ REMOTE CONSOLE: CTRL-] TO QUIT ********
> Linux version 2.4.27-xenU (root@andrea) (gcc version 3.1.1) #3 Tue Oct 19
> 13:56:24 EDT 2004
> On node 0 totalpages: 16384
> zone(0): 4096 pages.
> zone(1): 12288 pages.
> zone(2): 0 pages.
> Kernel command line:  ip=:1.2.3.4::::eth0:dhcp root=/dev/hda1 ro 4
> Initializing CPU#0
> Xen reported: 2193.379 MHz processor.
> Calibrating delay loop... 4404.01 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 62768k/65536k available (1341k kernel code, 2768k reserved, 267k
> data, 60k init, 0k highmem)
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
> Inode cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
> Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
> Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
> Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
> CPU: L1 I cache: 12K, L1 D cache: 8K
> CPU: L2 cache: 512K
> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.20GHz stepping 04
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
> Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> Initializing RT netlink socket
> Starting kswapd
> Journalled Block Device driver loaded
> Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@xxxxxxxxxxxx).
> Event-channel device installed.
> Xen virtual console successfully installed as tty
> Starting Xen Balloon driver
> pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
> [XEN] Initialising virtual block device driver
> RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
> loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
> SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
> kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
> kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
> [XEN] Initialising virtual ethernet driver.
> [XEN] Netfront recovered tx=0 rxfree=0
> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
> IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 8192)
> Sending DHCP requests .......  timed out
>
> Here Sending DHCP requests keep timing out and it keeps retrying. so boot
> doesn't proceed beyond this point.
>
> Can anybody please let me know what I might be doing wrong.
>
> Thanks,
> Sanjay
>
>
> ----------------------------------
> http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~ksanjay/
>
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, M.A. Williamson wrote:
>
> > >  Hi Folks,
> > >  I am using xen1.2.
> > >  I create the disk image as described in the Xen2.0 user manual
> > chapter 5.
> >  Sorry but that won't work :-(
> >
> >  Xen 1.2 can only export sections of physical disks (e.g. partitions,
> >  whole disks, or Xen Virtual Disks) to other domains. If you want to
> >  store filesystems in disk files, you should move to Xen 2.0-beta
> >  (soon to be Xen 2.0-release).
> >
> >  The nearest you can get on Xen 1.2 is to create a Virtual Disk and
> >  then use that. Tying yourself to 1.2 is probably not a good idea
> >  though - Virtual Disks aren't supported by 2.0. We'd certainly prefer
> >  people to move to 2.0 now - it's stable and virtually release-ready
> >  and has a whole load of new features, improved tools and better
> > hardware support.
> >  A good way to install a new domain's filesystem is using debootstrap
> >  (as described in the appendix of the manual).
> >
> >  Let us know how you get on.
> >
> >  HTH,
> >  Mark
> >
> > >  #dd if=/dev/zero of=vm1disk         bs=1k seek=6144k  count=1
> > >  #losetup /dev/loop1 vm1disk
> > >  #mkfs -t ext3 /dev/loop1
> > >  #mount /dev/loop1 /mnt
> > >
> > >  #cp -ax /<directory>/  /mnt/         /* I do this instead of
> > >  copying the whole / directory because I don't want some of the
> > > directories in Dom 1 */
> > >  I modify /mnt/etc/fstab to put /dev/sda1 to root
> > >
> > >  # umount /dev/loop1
> > >
> > >  then I put this line in /etc/xc/defaults (I used a copy of it called
> > >  dom1)
> > >
> > >  vbd_list = [ ('phy:loop1','sda1','w' ) ]
> > >
> > >
> > >  After this I try to create the dom1 by saying but I get an error.
> > >
> > >  #xc_dom_create.py   -D vmid=1 -f dom1
> > >  Parsing config file 'dom1'
> > >  VM image           : "/boot/xenolinux.gz"
> > >  VM ramdisk         : ""
> > >  VM memory (MB)     : "64"
> > >  VM IP address(es)  : "130.207.98.36; 169.254.1.1"
> > >  VM block device(s) : "phy:loop1,sda1,w"
> > >  VM cmdline         :
> > >  "ip=130.207.98.36:169.254.1.0:130.207.98.1:255.255.255.0::eth0:off
> > >  root=/dev/sda1 ro 4 VMID=1 usr=/dev/sda6"
> > >  Error looking up phy:loop1
> > >
> > >
> > >  Can someone please help me with this error?
> > >
> > >  Thanks,
> > >  Sanjay
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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